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Yes Gary. Believe it or not, "poor" people are just like the rest of us. Just because someone is poor it doesn't absolve them of their responsibilities. Especially during a crisis like this.Originally Posted by champion110
Are you suggesting that we shouldn't expect "poor" people to act responsibily too?
HD
my personal opinion, having dealt with the Red Cross fairly recently when a tornado decimated a small town in Louisiana, is that the Red Cross will drive around in their fancy little rides to make a show while they scheme to take more out than they put in.
jmo
Salvation Army, HELL YES ! ! ! !
Red Cross, HELL NO ! ! ! !
jmo
Don't disagree with most of what you have to say except the awfully broad brush you're treating the education in Louisiana. This behavior is NOT a surprise to most people on this board. I would've expected the lawlessness and mayhem that has followed. This is not happening in St. Tammany Parish and they have bad damage as well (not the flooding except in Slidell), but the caliber of people and their level of personal responsibility is vastly different. The New Orleans underclass has been trained to be dependent - and they performed admirably in that. Its disgusting to see just how few said they told us to get out and I really messed up - just happy to be alive now. Can you imagine how different things would've been if we were talking about evacuating 10000 people now instead of this massive quantity of humanity we now are dealing with?
Great Post!
I've never understood why the government is providing housing and food to some of the population. It doesn't help people stand on their own 2 feet and it makes always looking for a hand-out. Most of those poor people could have walked out of NO if they wanted to.
Drug dealing and use is a cancer on the moral fabric of our society. If we had been hanging those drug dealing punks we wouldn't have the lawlessness problem in NO that we have today.
I agree 100%. The widow of the founder of McDonald's left the Salvation Army over $1 billion in her will, and I'm sure she checked out that organization extremely well.
This Hastert fellow from Illinois has to be one of the most insensitive pricks I know.
Blanco demands apology
9:15 p.m.
An angry Gov. Kathleen Blanco demanded that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., apologize for his statement that it might not make sense to rebuild New Orleans. It was “unthinkable,” Blanco said, that Hastert would “kick us when we’re down. I demand an immediate apology.”
At a press conference Thursday night, she said that 300 soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard arrived in New Orleans fresh from Iraq and are under orders to restore order from the “hoodlums.’’
She said of the soldiers: “They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot to kill . . . and I expect they will.’’
U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, said that 1,500 people had gathered on the Chalmette ferry landing awaiting evacuation, possibly by ferry, to Algiers. Making a plea for those refugees to receive food and water now, Melancon estimated that about 100 are dead, possibly from dehydration.
Officials also noted that an additional 80 police officers are now on the streets of New Orleans from elsewhere around the country, bringing some stability to the Superdome.
A doctor in University Hospital telephoned a Baton Rouge TV station, hoping to call attention to the desperate plight at his hospital. The hospital was running low on food and water, and had no power, the doctor said. “We have 160 patients in the hospital and they are actively dying,” he said.
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I totally agree. I understand that in a time of crisis many people will feel sorry for everybody that got stuck in NO. I feel sorry for the small percentage that couldnt get out alta. I am sorry but I have already posted this before how animals will do whatever to survive, but humans wont. Many humans will expect someone else to come rescue them instead of diong it themselves. If you cant scrounge up a few dollars for gas to put in your truck to get out of NO, then you need to reprioritize. Gas hasnt got that expensive, yet, jk. I saw a guy on TV that epitomizes my stance. He said,"I cant believe no one is here. The water is so bad, my truck filled up with water all the way to the top." I just shook my head and stood in awe. You could have gotten out, yet you chose to ignore a mandatory evacuation. It is hard to feel sorry many of these people.
This really does make a lot of sense if you think about it. It you can identify groups of people who can take care of themselves and have destinatins to go to instead of having to wait for shelters to be established, why not get them out of the mix. I have seen a black female congress person from the northwest and a couple of black male congressmen this morning trying to make this a racial issue. These people are a part of the problem, not a part of the solution. They suffer from their own unique brand of ignorance.
Without any identification of an interviewee, I can tell who is conservative and who is liberal. Liberals are always complaining. They are rarely a part of the solution.
That is a very sad truth.
HD
Agreed. I lived in uptown N.O. while I was in law school. And the actions of some of these people do not surprise me at all. With that said, I still believe that the vast majority of the people left in N.O. are decent people, but to say the actions of the thugs comes as a shock would be lying.
Hell, my junior year of law school I was filling the truck up with gas and bullets wizzed over my head. I wasnt the target, but I was caught up in the middle of a drive by none the less. My senior year, my apt. was broken into and all of my stuff was stolen. (didnt get too much, i was a poor student:icon_razz ) A majority of my friends vehicles, yes MAJORITY, were either stolen or broken into. This place was a war zone already, now its just crazy.
New Orleans is bad, but go to parts of St. Louis, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, and Cleveland among others. Some parts of those places are as bad or worse than New Orleans. These types are not unique to New Orleans. The same thing would be happening in any of the above listed cities under the same circumstances.
exactly
Oh yeah, I am not disagreeing with you there. I was just talking about some of my experiences while I was in N.O., thats all.
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