By your logic we should bring home all our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq except those from New York City. We should do away with all the airline security checks except at La Guardia and only inspect containers going to Brooklyn. If the next hurricane, tornado, mud, blood, or flood hits at your house Baby, just send yo soul home to yo momma cause yo ass belong to the Mayor.

I have no idea how your smith and wesson is going to help you get your home or loved ones back if they are hit by a missile. The levee failure was like a missile fired at New Orleans, except there was more wide-spread devestation.

As for terrorist insurance, I have that also. Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson, and 11 of their relatives in each clip, along with no objection to doing whatever is necessary to protect my family. Again, I spent 10 years protecting this country, I am MORE than capable, and willing, to protect my family. No matter what it takes.

Insursnce? Regular homeowners insurance excludes flood damage. Some people had flood insurance, but the maximum coverage on a standard flood policy is $250,000. What if your house was worth more than that, as many of them were? Who do we go to for restitution when the federal government assures us that an event like this will not happen, and then it does?

What if it happened in New York, California, Washington D.C., Kansas or Minnesota? We here in Louisiana are United States citizens also.

wow that would be a great analogy if we could show how president bush and the government kidnapped some tornados and started shooting at mother Katrina from every house in New Orleans and she came in and wiped out the whole gulf coast in retaliation…

are you serious?!

What happend after the gret San Fransisco Earthquakes and fires? The Chicago fire? Was there a since of entitlement from your government? No they got together as a community and rebuilt via private venture and (gasp) churches, and community… and were the streets paved in gold in 2 years? 4 years? 10? I’m so sick of this “grass-hopper” mentality when the ants got their act together before the storm.

And who were the knuckleheads running New Orleans and Lousiana all these years? Bush appointees right? Give me a break I am ashamed that mayor Nagin is a fellow aluminist of Tulane. He actually had the nerve after Katrina to buy a home in Dallas… Meanwhile telling everyone he’s keeping New Orleans chocolate?

Art in N.O.

Art from N.O.

Most of what wrote, is because of how we have let the government permeate all areas of our lives.

Estate tax cuts. They paid taxes on earning the money, the paid taxes on the money they earned with that money, and now you want to tax they money again because someone died? I am unsure what planet you are on, but obviously it’s one that Darwins theory is working in reverse. Truly the only way I know of to rectify all this gross injustice called the Tax System, is a flat tax. No more shelters, no more tax deferred, when you spend money, they take out taxes. It makes things equal across the board. even those people engaged in illegal activities now get taxed whenever they spend THEIR ill gotten gains.

I have an IDEA. How about America quits giving money awya to every single foreign country, quit funding energy and pharmecueticals, and do what the government is supposed to do. Protect us militarily. No watchdog of whats on tv, stay out of our lives, minimal taxes to provide a strong national defense, and lets keep America strong!

“See, I’m hip with the Macaca.”

I don’t mind helping out, in fact MOST Americans are always willing to help each other out. However, our tax dollars are not to be used for this, and in fact VIOLATES the constitution. That would be the same Constitution I spent 10 years of my life defending.

On one had people are mad about the deficit. On the other, not enough money is being spent to help people out who suffered through a natural disaster. WELL??

The answer is, go back to the tenets of the Constitution., The government stays out of giving money away to othe countries, works to protect ours, and lets the people be responsible for themselves. If YOU want to help out someone. just as I want to help out someone, let us do it for ourselves, instead of expecting the government to reac into the pockets of it’s citizen, and “re-distribute the wealth”. I work hard for my money, and because of circumstnaces, things are very rough for my family and I right now. BUT it’s not the government’s job to bail me out, it’s MY job, my family’s job, and my friends who offer to help. NOT the people of the U.S.A.

It’s up to Bush and Congress, as the representatives of the collective people of the United States, to “promote the general welfare” (Preamble of the U.S. Constitution). I think helping a whole community recover from a catastrophe not of their making would qualify as “promoting the general welfare”.

Look out folks…we’ve become immune to ‘foiled’ terror threats. Brace yourselves for a ‘terrorist plot’ to actually succeed before November.

NOTE: This is the FOURTH time I’ve had to post this, as my previous three posts were removed almost instantly. Why does a site that calls itself ‘Think Progress’ insist on muzzling people? Would an editor of this site care to explain their behavior?