The 1995 Hanshin earthquake that levelled the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 5,000 and displacing countless more, was 7.2 in magnitude and far more damaging than Katrina. Within one year, the Japanese were able to more or less get things back to normal.
What is it with the repairs after Katrina, one year on? Some areas reportedly look the same as they did immediately after the disaster.
2006-09-04 19:42:32 · 6 answers · asked by tiko 4 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
It is interesting that there is so much emphasis on people helping themselves, and not relying on government help. Is it always possible for poor people, for example, to help themselves entirely without some help? In Japan, the govenment acted quickly, and made it easier for people to help themselves.
I'm still not convinced that it is entirely up to the individual. Goverments receive taxes, and some of that should go to immediate relief. It worked in Japan, and after the recent typhoons in Asia.
2006-09-05 13:17:44 · update #1
Ask a thought-provoking lesson and little Brad Morris tells me to get a life. Ooo, how nasty! Now answer the question, instead of being confrontational.
2006-09-07 19:56:10 · update #2
Brad! I agree with you! I think we might be able to stop hating each other for awhile. But seriously, even though I vehemently disagree with you on many issues, and I still think you ought to tone down the abuse, I have to say you make sense with your added comments. You see, in Japan, people were able to work together. I don't think it's quite the same in the US, however.
2006-09-08 13:52:12 · update #3
For one thing, if anyone waits for the government to come and save the day, they're going to wait for a long time.
Why don't you see neighbors helping each other out? All I ever see is people standing around like lost sheep!
For another thing, 50% of the people that EVENTUALLY fled New Orleans never came back. Why?
It needs to be a combined effort to rebuild the city, not the government's sole responsibility!
I'm tired of hearing about it. If my house was taken by a tornado, and it does happen in the Midwest, you don't see people standing amid the ruins waiting for FEMA to drop a check from the sky. They clean up the mess, and get to rebuilding!
2006-09-04 19:48:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, obviously because America is hell bent on keeping the black man down. That's what you're getting at, isn't it?
Or maybe it's because of U.S. foreign policy.
Get a life.
You want an answer? Okay.
The reason all this is taking so long is the same reason there's a hole in the ground in New York five years later.
God bless America, but I have never seen a country so mired up in red - tape, infighting and indecision (take a look at Iraq).
Instead of fixing the problem, we love to fix the blame.
I agree with you in some respects - as taxpayers, the government should work in unison, and quickly, with the people in New Orleans to start rebuilding their shattered lives.
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2006-09-08 02:09:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bobby's got it right. The people who actually live in New Orleans are not willing to help themselves and so less gets done. It is too bad that they feel the several billion dollars they have already received are not enough. Mississippi, which is where Katrina actually hit, is on the mend and it didn't take buckets of federal money to get it done. The people of New Orleans need to start taking care of themselves not everyone in the US taking care of them.
2006-09-05 07:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they only have one screwdriver
2006-09-08 23:30:26 · answer #4 · answered by heyrobo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
politics
2006-09-05 02:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem is our President, on this one.
2006-09-05 02:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋