They can certainly help where they live and whether it is somewhere that is below sea level.Qurious said:
Angel said:
99% of the problem with these people is that they were so used to being taken care of that they couldn't move a muscle without the government helping them.mdgirlie said:
Why should the National Guard be responsible for ensuring that people don't do what they aren't supposed to be doing in the first place? Everyone knows that it is wrong to steal, rape, and plunder. The cops should have been taking care of that angle. The National Guard had the job of protecting the PEOPLE of New Orleans, not protecting STUFF. Their energies were diverted from their expected duties to take care of ignorant people running amuck stealing tvs and pillaging Wal-Mart. Besides, if the folks of New Orleans had put as much effort into leaving and taking care of their own situation as they did in rioting in the streets, they'd be much better off today.mdgirlie said:
mdgirlie said:
I guess spending billions of dollars a day on a pointless war is more important than building a stabled levee system like the one in the Netherlands which is 80% below sea level!!! Keep in mind if the levees were built stabled in the first place the flooding would've never happened.
Qurious said:No one was raped at the Superdome. Some of you NEEDED to watch that documentary because it seems your just beleive what NBC, Fox & CNN reported last year and didnt get the true facts this year. The police officer who had claimed people were being raped at the Superdome retracted his statements saying he jumped to conclusions because he was told by someone that his daughter was attacked and raped at the hotel that was connected to the Superdome but after speaking to his daughter - nothing happened but buy that time it was too late - the media had already jumped all over it.
Babies & young girls being raped - come on now. Remember all the rumors that the media reported when 9/11 happened? How many of those were true? How Grand Central was bombed and how 3 other planes were unaccounted for and headed for the white house & all the memorials? Ridiculous!
You can never say what someone else should have done if you've never ever been in their shoes or lived in a poverty stricken area. Do any of you know what its like to get any support from the gov't? If you've applied for any gov't loans for your house, school or business - you aren't placed any higher above those who get help for food, medical care or section 8. If your an American citizen thats never needed anyone's help then pat yourself on the back and STHU! The United States gov't should be ashamed of themselves for how they responded to Hurricane Katrina and let me add how they responded to 9/11 also! Should we have no sympathy for those who refused to move from lower Manhattan after the first world trade bombing? Since everyone "knew" this was going to happen then they should've protected themselves right? [/endsarcasm]
I'll once again touch on Mississippi and why no one is mentioning their destruction. They have major political influence and were able to get the help they needed ASAP. One person Trent Lott....that is all.
A year after Katrina there is still rubble and houses needing to be bulldozed to start the rebuilding. Some people can't even afford to get back to their homes only to find that if they don't - guess who will get their property.
I thought its human nature to sympathize with the helpless. When the Tsunami hit where were the "thats what they get, they should've gotten out" comments then?
Don't blame the Russians........elaine said:
Qurious said:No one was raped at the Superdome. Some of you NEEDED to watch that documentary because it seems your just beleive what NBC, Fox & CNN reported last year and didnt get the true facts this year. The police officer who had claimed people were being raped at the Superdome retracted his statements saying he jumped to conclusions because he was told by someone that his daughter was attacked and raped at the hotel that was connected to the Superdome but after speaking to his daughter - nothing happened but buy that time it was too late - the media had already jumped all over it.
Babies & young girls being raped - come on now. Remember all the rumors that the media reported when 9/11 happened? How many of those were true? How Grand Central was bombed and how 3 other planes were unaccounted for and headed for the white house & all the memorials? Ridiculous!
You can never say what someone else should have done if you've never ever been in their shoes or lived in a poverty stricken area. Do any of you know what its like to get any support from the gov't? If you've applied for any gov't loans for your house, school or business - you aren't placed any higher above those who get help for food, medical care or section 8. If your an American citizen thats never needed anyone's help then pat yourself on the back and STHU! The United States gov't should be ashamed of themselves for how they responded to Hurricane Katrina and let me add how they responded to 9/11 also! Should we have no sympathy for those who refused to move from lower Manhattan after the first world trade bombing? Since everyone "knew" this was going to happen then they should've protected themselves right? [/endsarcasm]
I'll once again touch on Mississippi and why no one is mentioning their destruction. They have major political influence and were able to get the help they needed ASAP. One person Trent Lott....that is all.
A year after Katrina there is still rubble and houses needing to be bulldozed to start the rebuilding. Some people can't even afford to get back to their homes only to find that if they don't - guess who will get their property.
I thought its human nature to sympathize with the helpless. When the Tsunami hit where were the "thats what they get, they should've gotten out" comments then?
We hear you loud and clear, we just disagree with your “blueness”. You think that the government should exist solely to take care of those that can but don't take care of themselves; we think that if you can take care of yourself then you should. No one thinks that the truly deserving or needy don’t deserve help, it’s just all the scum that try to take advantage or expect everything to be handed to them freely that stir our ire.mdgirlie said: