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Ya, know (and I say this as someone who grew up on Welfare) I said this to my husband during the first few days.

Instead of making their situation better, people kept waiting for someone else to do it for them.


Paula,

if we lived in some kind of wilderness, the primitive society not paying any taxes etc - yes, I agree the government (state, federal) would not bear any responsibility for people. But this is XXI century?

OK, the next time, there would be the evacuation in the White House the government should not provide any security just let all the officiels go wherever they can find a shelter!

The trouble is - the top guys get everything but they still blame the bottom powerless for all the problems.
I just heard that the top 35 people of management in our university got raises about 10 thousands dollars each - whereas the professors had only 1-2% raise per year.

Why? Because they control money, yes, I agree pres. Cheney would not go to Wallmart and steal a couple of jeans but he would make sure that he would be compensated for his work in another ways...

By the way, you are doing a great job on your sites in Bella!

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Don't get me started on universities. I live a football worshipping state. When they stop paying coaches obscene amounts of money I'll donate to the university. Until then I only support my college.

DC would be a slightly different matter. It is not a state and has a different relationship with the federal government.

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for those americans on the forum who haven't become "stepford citizens" yet here's an excellent blog on the subject....

http://www.crooksandliars.com/


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and a picture which sums up the attitude of your "president"....

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Honey, it's called "sarcasm." Bob S. made those comments about Clinton in a larger stream of nonsense. It's no more ridiculous to say it's Clinton's fault than Bush's.

So......They were given money, but blew it one something stupid!


Marsh,
welcome to the forum. of course we cannot blame Bush on... hurricane but we can blame on Iraq since there was no reason to go there.

As for the fountain - is this Foxnews story?

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And the alphabet news networks make up stories if there is nothing available. LOL


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I think someone on here already pointed out, although the gov't couldn't seem to get in there to help people, the reporters sure were in there. Why, for one bleedin' second, could they not have put their cameras and microphones down, and actually lent a hand to helping some of these people?

No, instead they just film them being miserable and crying and being murdered and bleeding on the streets! I believe in order to be part of mainstream media (or as Bob puts it "alphabet news networks" - i like that one!) all reporters must give up their souls, humanity and compassion, and every now and then they have make-up paint it back on so they can look sympathetic on camera!

Everybody made fun of Sean Penn - at least he tried!


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it's amazing really....

katrina wasn't exactly the first hurricane to strike america was it?

and the fact that it was going to strike was known in advance wasn't it?

so wouldn't it have been a good idea to prepare for the disaster and mobilise help immediately?

it's not rocket science is it?

that's exactly what happened last year when a hurricane struck florida.

so....


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....why didn't it happen this time?

why did it take a whole week before anybody showed up?

and who's fault is that?


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Visit this photo album of New Orleans. It's pretty good and the story with it is also.


http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.js...nyvoby&Ux=1

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