Anyone with a ‘lick’ of sense should be able to comprehend the difference between a slow developing flood along river towns AND a state hit by a major hurricane and a resulting flood from levees collapsing in 50 places throughout the major city and surrounding communities. For it to be comparable would be if a big slow moving tornado was going through the surrounding areas at the same time and if the river flooded over 80% of Iowa City and stayed flooded for a few weeks and if it was up to 4 days in 90 degree temps before a federal response answered the call. Can you compare losing 3 or 4,000 homes to the destruction of 225,000 homes & w/l00’s of thousands of homes damaged? 81,000 businesses affected–at least 18,000 destoyed.

The govt estimates that Katrina & federal levee failures caused 90,000 square MILES of damages in La, Ms, Al & Fl. Less than 1 month later, Hurricane Rita hit the sw coastal communities of LA and caused 60,000 square MILES of additional damages in LA/Tx. To my understanding, the floods in the Midwest or the fires of California have not reached this magnitude yet.

Another stark difference is that NO other state has had to endure a historical set of disasters and endure the continuous lies, misrepresentations, under-reporting of facts, slander, character assassinations and ridicule as Louisiana has had to face since DAY 1 and that has continued for nearly 3 years.

Hey – all that corn they’re growing for bio-fuel is going to be needed for FOOD now.

BTW Prytania, the possessive is “country’s” not “countries”. Read much?

You take one example of jobs improving when a Dem follows a Repub and then you put forth your own personal spin for the reason. Clinton very easily got his second term.

Clinton at first had a Dem congress and his budget passed without a single Repub vote. It cut the deficit in half–from $250 billion per year to $125 billion. $125 billion equaled the interest on the debt incurred the previous 12 years. You cannot explain why GHWB and GWB were worse. GWB had a Repub House, Senate, and Supreme Court and his job creation is one-third of Clinton’s.

You cannot explain why FDR was better than Hoover, Eisenhower was worse than Truman, JFK was better than Eisenhower, Nixon was worse than LBJ, Carter was better than Ford, Reagan was worse than Carter, Clinton was better than GHWB, GWB was worse than Clinton, and Obama will be better than GWB. I cannot go back before Harding, because job growth rate was not kept then.

Bush said himself that the residents should respect private property when it came to food that would have rotted to hell anyway if no one took it. You heard choruses on the right proclaiming the Rule of Law when those desperate residents who needed food took food from abandoned stores, food that would have gone to waste…

Y’know, the fact that there are people who game the system does not mean that everyone games the system. You would let the cheats determine the value of any program. You would prefer to sacrifice those who need assistance to keep the cheats from profiting. I would prefer to help those in need, and accept that some will cheat.

I agree wholeheartedly. And work toward making the system less gameable.

*** Like going back to PAPER BALLOTS fer instance ****

There might be a reason that no one in Iowa and Illinois–the people who, by the way, elected Barack Obama–is asking “where’s Fema, where’s Bush?” Because when it came to the midwest, FEMA was right on time. From a FEMA press release:
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EXACTLY!!

Recall: FEMA and the DHS didn’t even know there were people living in the Superdome for TWO DAYS.

Recall: There were armed personel blocking the Red Cross from bringing aid to people in NOLA.

Recall: Trucks of water and ice never even reached the city.

And so on. Of course they are not rioting in the mid-west; they are getting what they need whereas the people in New Orleans were left stranded on their roof tops with nothing.

It doesn’t work like that.

I just thought this was worth repeating.

And the petroleum industry is largely responsible for hurricane Katrina’s landfall on New Orleans [due to the loss of wetlands - the protective barrier to hurricanes.] See National Geographic Article — Louisiana’s Wetlands

…But two years ago former petroleum geologist Bob Morton, now with the U.S. Geological Survey, noticed that the highest rates of wetland loss occurred during or just after the period of peak oil and gas production in the 1970s and early 1980s. After much study, Morton concluded that the removal of millions of barrels of oil, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and tens of millions of barrels of saline formation water lying with the petroleum deposits caused a drop in subsurface pressure—a theory known as regional depressurization. That led nearby underground faults to slip and the land above them to slump.

“When you stick a straw in a soda and suck on it, everything goes down,” Morton explains. “That’s very simplified, but you get the idea.” The phenomenon isn’t new: It was first documented in Texas in 1926 and has been reported in other oil-producing areas such as the North Sea and Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Morton won’t speculate on what percentage of wetland loss can be pinned on the oil industry. “What I can tell you is that much of the loss between Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Terrebonne was caused by induced subsidence from oil and gas withdrawal. The wetlands are still there, they’re just underwater.” The area Morton refers to, part of the Barataria-Terrebonne estuary, has one of the highest rates of wetland loss in the state.

Alternative Energy is a must while more DRILLING [i.e. ANWR or Florida's Coast] is short-sighted and detrimental to the health of our country.

Prytania Says:
It’s very frustrating. It pisses me off to the point I ramble sometimes. It’s hard to explain the things this city has dealt with pre an post Katrina. Sorting through the lies an misconceptions about New Orleans and explaining why we are where we are today is a daunting task. And if I hear one more person say, ” why are we even rebuilding that area?” one more time, i’m gonna drink more. 25% of the entire countries energy comes through or is refined in Louisiana.

Oh poor you, you whiny little pr*ck. I bet your not nearly as frustrated about NO as we are about the crooks in the administration and the lies they spew to make 1 percenters like you still defend them. No why don’t you just STFU and go away.