Letters to the Editor
nola1971
Published Letters: 10
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Elephantman, how can you believe the things you are saying?
[Read the article: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The president asking people to leave on TV is not the same as providing the means for people to leave. But I guess you wouldn't know that because you (like the president) have probably never met anyone who is too poor to own a car. (Yes, America has poor people!)
And let's not forget that the reason FEMA itself was so inept and headed by douchebags like Brown is because Bush chased out all the professional disaster relief career people so he could place right-wing Christian Republican lackeys in the agency.
I do not hold the mayor or the governor harmless in this mess, but the point is Bush had the authority, resources, capacity and time to step in to alleviate further suffering and DID NOT because HE HAS NO COMPASSION.
Um, why was the Superdome scary? OK, I'm sure you would've had no problem being trapped in a stifling, shit-filled, chaotic mess for days after dragging your family across a toxic wasteland of urban floodwaters, starving and parched, wondering if all your family and neighbors had drowned? But I guess it's fine because it was a temporary inconvenience?
And the comparison of New Orleans to Mississippi is like Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Yes, they were both tragic and horrific, but Mississippi did not have a major urban center that was 80% destroyed and underwater for weeks.
As far as the levees are concerned, the point the previous poster was trying to make was not an allusion to conspiracy theories about them being blown up (which you have further spread by posting here), but rather the notion that Bush wanted us to believe we were safer under his protection after 9/11. But it's not so hard to imagine IF a terrorist had blown up the levees, the result would still have been the same: Americans were not protected.
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I meant
[Read the article: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hiroshima to Pearl Harbor
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Blackwater
[Read the article: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One other thing about the money: People who gripe about all the money that's been sent down here already need to realize that most of the major contracts were doled out (no bid) to Bush's corporte buddies (Blackwater, Fluor, ICF, et. al.), which they then subcontracted to subcontractors, who subcontracted to subcontractors, ad nauseum, so that not very much of the money actually got into the hands of the people who are trying to recover.
If you don't believe me, just come down and see how far we still have to go!
Not to mention the fact that the damage to this city was done not by mother nature but by the failure of a FEDERAL levee system.
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before you say New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt
[Read the article: Hope floats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]go tell the people in tornado alley (Midwest) and on the faultlines (California) and on the hurricane coast (North Carolina) and in tall buildings (Manhattan) or near a volcano (Hawaii) or in the middle of ice storms (New England) that they shouldn't live there because they're just inviting disaster...
Also remember that 1/3 of your oil and seafood and international trade goes through the port of New Orleans, which fed the growth of the US economy for 2 centuries and does so today. Duh.
And don't try to tell a so-called "charity case" what kind of gift they should be happy to receive. If all your clothes were lost, how would you feel if someone made you wear a dorky, out of date, ill-fitting suit and told you should be grateful not to be naked? Everyone deserves dignity and respect, even impoverished survivors of natural disasters. Duh.