I think they should've just let it turn into a big lake instead of wasting all of that money on it, its a poor town anyway and the people there that stayed, they didn't listen and they died, to bad for them, screw George Bush he could've fed the homeless, or, done something udeful instead of pay all of that sweet mulah to that city, and the people who couldn't make it out in time and were stranded on the bridge, I feel sorry for them...
2006-07-30 13:48:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
For the people who rebuild there, they are retards, who would rebuild there when your home just got washed away? If you have insurance, its just about free, if you don't you're an idiot because you're sixty feet below sea level.
2006-07-30 14:03:02 · update #1
Just returned from New Orleans. It's a great American City that's just as relevant as Los Angeles or Chicago.
The shirt shops in the French Quarter have it right...."Make Levees not War".
We have so much money for war....but nothing to make sure that we have a country worth defending. Freedom isn't cheap and it's time to start spending some money on it.
2006-07-30 13:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, lets see. First, to answer you question, I feel sorry for New Orleans. It has a tradition almost as long as the White House of the US of A. And that tradition is partying and having a good time and enjoying life. So yes I feel sorry for New Orleans.
As to the rest of it, say you were living there, and barely making enough to live as it was. And suddenly you find yourself with no home, no job, and moved out of the city because there is a storm coming your way. The city had withstood storms for years and years and the usual thing was for the storm to get worse in the Gulf of Mexico but get weakened before making landfall. Would you evacuate? Probably not. As to your assumption that President Bush could have fed the homeless, yes he could have, he could have saved the homeless by demanding a tax increase to pay for shelters in all major cities so that the homeless have a place to go, and things to eat.
Here is my problem with that. I work, I put food on my table, and pay for my house, and my electricity and my gas and my car and my insurance and my other bills. If I can find a job why can't these people? I worked at McDonalds when I had nothing else, I lived at apartments where the rats and cockroaches were willign to come out during the day and look at you. I lived in squallor til I could get a better job. Why can't the "homeless" who by the way through panhandling make about $50K - $75K a year, and Don't pay taxes on it. Why is it my problem that they are homeless? Don't have money? And don't have food? Did I make it that way? Did a natural disaster happen to make them homeless?
Define Useful. Do you mean rebuilding so that about 1 million people can go back to their homes and their lives and their jobs mean useful? Does useful mean taking tax payer money to give more money to people who make money but don't pay taxes?
Or are you talkign useful as in restoring our infrastructure so that we are less dependant upon the Foreign Comapnies called Sony, Kenwood, Honda, Toyota, Kawasaki, BMW, Porsche, Toshiba, Techtronics, or all the other imports that I am sure you have. Or that we put money back into our infrastructure so that American jobs stay in America giving people a chance to get jobs and feed themselves again? After all, it is cheaper for me to send my labor to say indonesia where the person making my Computer gets $5 a day and works for 12 hours than it is for me to pay an American worker $7/hr and give that person mandatory breaks if they work for a certain amount of time. And then have to pay them 1.5 base pay if they work for more than 40 hours a week.
So what is it you call useful? Rebuilding lives so that people can start paying taxes again or giving free handouts so that we bleed ourselves dry? Wake up and smell reality, after all communism has been proven not to work.
2006-07-30 21:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by ce1n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you suck have you ever been to New Orleans pre Katrina It was a great city with lots of history great food and one big tourist attraction plus the site of numerous movie sets. I bet you would not feel that way about the funding if a hurricane hit where you live and distroyed your home. Oh and newsflash genius the people in New Orleans are the homeless.
2006-07-30 20:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by stophatinboo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate Louisiana-use to live there, thank God I got the fcuk out before all hell broke loose.
2006-07-30 21:07:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!! save new orleans i still want to go
2006-07-30 20:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by babybro35 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋