Beck: ‘We Shouldn’t Spend A Single Dime’ On New Orleans, Residents Should Just ‘Move Out’
Beck: ‘We Shouldn’t Spend A Single Dime’ On New Orleans, Residents Should Just ‘Move Out’
Last night on his CNN program, Glenn Beck, talking with former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin, noted the possibility of a hurricane hitting New Orleans on “day one of the Republican convention” next week. But Beck then expressed his displeasure that tax money is being spent in New Orleans and offered a simple solution to residents not wishing to experience another Katrina-like disaster: “Move” :
BECK: Why are we spending all this money in New Orleans? We shouldn’t spend a single dime of taxpayers’ money in a place where — I don’t care where it is — where it is in a flood zone. Move out of the place that, you know, you’re below sea level.
Watch it:
Of course, the New Orleans area is not the only flood zone in the United States that receives federal tax dollars. Areas of Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Texas, Missouri and numerous other American states are now considered flood zones. Does Beck expect these residents to pick up and move as well? If so, where to?
Meanwhile in New Orleans, residents are preparing for Hurricane Gustav, which is barreling toward the Gulf Coast. The storm is expected to reach New Orleans on Monday, the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention and just in time for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) has said he will skip the convention if the storm continues to move toward his state. However, as of yet, the White House has not said whether President Bush intends to risk a repeat of 2005.
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That sick, stupid barstid ought to shut the flock up.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:13 pmAnd he is supposedly a pro-lifer, I believe…
August 27th, 2008 at 2:13 pmPeople like Beck are pro-zygotes, not pro-life.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pmBen Gleck loves to rant his blatantly racist crap, why would anyone want to watch this pasty white fat boy spew?
Is he possessed? Daryll?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pmOh, poor Glen Beck. How desperate he is for attention and ratings. He will say ANYTHING if he thinks it will benefit him.
What a disgusting, sorry sack of $hit.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pmHowever, as of yet, the White House has not said whether President Bush intends to risk a repeat of 2005.
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Well now that the Chocolate City has been ethnically cleansed to a light Cafe Mocha, it’s pretty much impossible to repeat the 2005 debacle.
What are they going to do – evict white people? Pfff – like THAT’ll happen!
August 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pmAlso:
Pro-wealthy elite.
Pro-hatred.
Pro-GOP!
August 27th, 2008 at 2:15 pmHow is it that Glenn Beck isn’t worm food?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pmWho is this Glenn Beck?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pmIs he another compassionate (c)hristian?
However, as of yet, the White House has not said whether President Bush intends to risk a repeat of 2005.
A repeat how? By ignoring the devastation for three days and finally doing a “fly over”?
Glen Beck has to be the most hateful person on the planet. How can anyone with any kind of compassion ever listen to this dickhead?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pmGlenn Beck is an enema of the state. Repeat with me: ENEMA OF THE STATE.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:19 pmI heard on NPR this morn, that while some people are moving to New Orleans, many displaced blacks aren’t. The population is more white, and more wealthy than those displaced.
Is anyone here surprised?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pmYet this clown will cheer-lead spending trillions in Iraq.
¶ AIO
August 27th, 2008 at 2:21 pmRUCerious Says:
Ben Gleck loves to rant his blatantly racist crap, why would anyone want to watch this pasty white fat boy spew?
DOES anyone watch I mean outside his immediate family. His show is a tree falling in the forrest moment
August 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pmHe knows we’ll get riled up. The only thing left to do is to knock him off the air. What’s left of him anyway, he has no ratings.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pmWhere does Beck live?
I bet it is in a flood zone and he doesn’t even know it.
He is uninformed and not ashamed to show it.
All of New Orleans is not below sea level.
The federal government should pay for the recovery since it was the failure of the federally built floodwalls that inundated the city and caused most of the damage.
I’ll bet he has not even visited New Orleans in the past three years. If he were to come today, he would see a lot of progress, carried on the backs of individuals doing what they can with mostly their own resources. Most of the federal money that was promised, and he is loath to give, has been held in red tape.
Would he like it better it New Orleans simply seceeded from the country? If it did, it would make a fortune taxing all the shipments of oil, and other imports moving up river, and all the grain, corn, and other exports from the U.S. moving down river through the city.
Don’t call for the abandoning of New Orleans unless and until you know why it was founded there in the first place.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pmFrosty Cupcake Says:
People like Beck are pro-zygotes, not pro-life.
Sorry, I should have put “pro-lifer” in “”
August 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pmI suppose that Beck not only thinks that everybody who lives in a flood zone should move (start packing, Iowans), but everybody who lives in any disaster-prone area should move. Californians should obviously move, since they get earthquakes (and wildfires), the northeast gets crippling ice storms, the plains states get tornados, Florida gets its share of hurricanes, and even Hawaii gets volcanic eruptions.
So where does Beck propose putting all these displaced people?
The truth is that it’s difficult to find a place in this country that’s completely disaster free. The government will always be shelling out money to help people in times of disaster, and that’s as it should be. I personally don’t mind my tax dollars helping people out who lost their home and their livelihood due to an act of God, because it could be my town next.
I suspect Beck singles out New Orleans because there are poor and/or brown people there.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pmBetween Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs how can anybody take CNN seriously any more.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pmThat’s right, alpha.
The concern for the use of taxpayer dollars comes out of helping those brown people. But using those taxpayer dollars to bomb those undesirables, that’s A-OK!
August 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pmUncle Ho Says:
I heard on NPR this morn, that while some people are moving to New Orleans, many displaced blacks aren’t. The population is more white, and more wealthy than those displaced.
Is anyone here surprised?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I’m not surprised a bit.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:25 pmFollowing Glenn Beck’s “logic” here the other places people should not live because it would waste public funds to bail them out: anywhere susceptible to tornado (goodbye midwest, great plains and midsouth); earthquake zones (ta ta California); volcanic activity (farewell pacific northwest and Alaska); hurricane (so sorry atlantic and gulf coasts); and of course places with insufficient water supply (b’bye southwest) because Republicans don’t do infrastructure — why else would they hold their convention beside a collapsed interstate bridge? As far as I can tell the only place that leaves for all of America to live is the hole between Glenn Beck’s ears. It may be a desert as far as original thought goes but there is plenty of room and nothing is gonna penetrate that thick skull.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pmNope, he’s a “Magic Underwear” Mormon.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pmOnce the ice shelves melt we’re all below sea level.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
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If I understand correctly eveyone lives in a flood zone of some degree. However, parts of NO are below sea level.
So are parts of New York City.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:29 pmBeck is the main reason I no longer watch CNN, there are other bad “journalists” on CNN, but them hiring Beck was the last straw.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:29 pmIt’s no longer Ted Turner’s CNN that was once upon a time a great source for news.
Someone should stick Beck back up Cheney’s ass. Where he came from.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pmCan we put Beck “above sea level” a la waterboarding?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pmRepublicans should all be gathered up and put in camps and left there until they die off. They should also be sterilized so they can not procreate.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:34 pmArt Says:
So are parts of New York City.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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Yes — the underground parts, anyhow, where all the subways and sewers and wires and pipes that keep the city functioning run. Manhattan used to be a hill full of streams and underground springs, and the only thing keeping the Hudson River from flooding the city’s basement is a network of 700 pumps that run 24/7.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pmMy response regarding Glenn Beck is …..No comment.
I wish these people would make up their minds about where this thing is gonna go. This morning, they had it moving towards Florida. The fact is, we won’t know where it will head until it comes off of Cuba.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pmBeck is awful, just mean and awful. I have no idea why he is on the air.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pmjpopphan Says:
Oh, poor Glen Beck. How desperate he is for attention and ratings. He will say ANYTHING if he thinks it will benefit him.
What a disgusting, sorry sack of $hit.
Hmmmm, sounds very much like John McStain, Media Whore. But he was a POW dontchaknow.
PEACE
August 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pmoh the taxpayer’s money. hey Beck until you find NINE BILLION DOLLARS that just “disappeared” in Iraq unaccounted for,
SHUT THE FK UP
August 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pmLooks like there’s quite a bit of stuff behind Gustav.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:41 pmAnd you filed this under the correct catagory. Beck is an ass. The more he talks, the more ignorant he is and sounds.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pmAnd I won’t spend a single minute listening to this POS idiot, or CNN for having this repulsive repukian a$$wipe spewing RNC crap on the airwaves.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:43 pmShayne Says:
DRxJ Says:
Who is this Glenn Beck?
Is he another compassionate (c)hristian?
Nope, he’s a “Magic Underwear” Mormon.
Wow, Shayne, now that’s interesting! I guess some Mormons still hate the brown people they wouldn’t allow in their temples until quite recently.
Please, oh please McStain, put Romney on the ticket!
PEACE
August 27th, 2008 at 2:44 pmmisshusseinmolly; You forgot to mention the people who live in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma- better known as Tornado Alley.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pmI guarantee that if NOLA was a Republican city or a Mormon city Glenn Beck the allegedly recovering alcoholic and ex-drug addict ( who should get honest work) would be screaming the blues for the much-dreaded and despised Federal Government (Ooooo…scary scary…) to come to the rescue of his brethren and sistren.
That hole should go slither back into one…
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August 27th, 2008 at 2:49 pmIgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:
Looks like there’s quite a bit of stuff behind Gustav.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
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Wow – Mali’s getting pounded. What’s up with that?
August 27th, 2008 at 2:50 pmContrary to popular belief, Mormons in general don’t hate the brown people. Their mythology includes the little gem that if a brown person converts to Mormonism and is true to the religion, (ie; tithes the 10%)after a few generations their skin will become “white and wholesome”.
I shit ye not.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pmhussein toasterhead; so much for N.O. remaining a ‘chocolate city’.
I meant NO offense by the above statement, I was quoting the city’s black mayor.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pmBeck is a big part of the problem. The head honchos at places like CNN,Faux etc. hire these paid pundits just to propigate the admin. known ethnic/races biases. Pieces of crap like Beck
August 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pmcontinue to spew their xenophobic/racist diatribes to the sheeple and people stupidly –buy it.
Did Beck just tell Trent Lott to move out? Boy, the guy’s got cohones…
August 27th, 2008 at 2:54 pmUncle Ho Says
August 27th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
misshusseinmolly; You forgot to mention the people who live in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma- better known as Tornado Alley.
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I probably should have been more specific when I said “plains states”, but that was the area I meant. I also should have mentioned the heat waves and lack of water in the southwest, avalanches in the Rockies, and blizzards in Minnesota and the Dakotas. And, of course, idiot radio/TV talk show hosts in far too many places.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:54 pmThe storm is expected to reach New Orleans on Monday, the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention and just in time for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
I wonder how many times he’ll mention Katrina, NO, Rita, or the entire Gulf Coast. Getting as far away from that has nothing to do with the convention being in MN, I’m sure.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:56 pmWhy are we spending all this money in New Orleans? We shouldn’t spend a single dime of taxpayers’ money in a place where — I don’t care where it is — where it is in a flood zone. Move out of the place that, you know, you’re below sea level.
These a$$holes don’t have a problem throwing trillions into a quagmire as long as they can smell oil but when it comes to helping people in a flood zone, forget it. Maybe we should give out oil leases in New Orleans, there wouldn’t be any shortage of money then.
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August 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pmTang, I believe Cheney used his shotgun to breach the levee walls. When stressed by hurricanes, quail are known to dive.
Also, as a card carrying Republican, maybe you know why Fran Townsend omitted any mention of the hospital with the highest patient death toll from the White House Lessons Learned report.
LifeCare lost 24 patients post landfall. Do you think the Carlyle Group, LifeCare’s new owners, were grateful for the ommission? Fran is very well known for her risk management.
Educate me as to the reasons for such oddities.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pmGlenn Beck was born in
August 27th, 2008 at 2:59 pmMt. Vernon, WA which borders the Skagit River which has been plagued by flooding. Guess he could care less if his birthplace is washed off the face of the earth.
Beck and his ilk can go to hell, Chertoff’s Homeland Security has decided that there will be NO more ice provided after a Hurricane or for that matter any type of storm, BUT by damn we can continue to fund Bush’s War, Occupation and Reconstruction of Iraq. That ice was a pure blessing to us that were broadsided by Katrina.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:01 pmWhy are we spending all this time watching Ben Gleck trash New Orleans? We shouldn’t spend a single monent of taxpayers’ time on a place where — I don’t care where it is — where it is in a prime time talk show. Move away from the tv, that, you know, you’re below any level of good taste.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:03 pmAh yes, more projection! Glenn hates sea level. The only thing worse is to build a pagan temple, replete with columns, at the shore!
The link is to a Mormon temple on Hawaii…
August 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pmNashoba nowa says: Beck and his ilk can go to hell, Chertoff’s Homeland Security has decided that there will be NO more ice provided after a Hurricane or for that matter any type of storm, BUT by damn we can continue to fund Bush’s War, Occupation and Reconstruction of Iraq. That ice was a pure blessing to us that were broadsided by Katrina.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
REPLY: Yeah but… how else would the war-profiteers make money?
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pmThe Mississippi River is America’s largest waterway. Having a port at its mouth is something of a good idea.
But of course it’s an archetypal Republican hypocrisy. John McCain trumpets that the United States of America is the greatest force for good in the history of the World!
Yay!
We can rule the world! We can lead it into the New American Century!
But flood control? Rebuilding a major American city? Suddenly they hunch over. Ooohh noooo, my precioussss. can’t afford such things, can we, gollum gollum? Exsssspensive they are!
They don’t even see how loathsome that is. They don’t see that the world sees both clownish stances as odious, but combined they are unbelievable.
Republican America, apparently, can knock people down but never pick them up. It’s this unsurpassed force for good except when it comes to, you know, helping people.
Most Americans, and most Republicans are proud of American’s generosity.Americans would aid their worst enemies when disaster struck. That’s how Americans see themselves. And that’s why both the wretched government performance in re Katrina and the mean, whiny, blame-everybody-else whinings of the Republican media sent George Bush’s popularity right into the cellar, never to rise again.
Keep it up Glenn. Keep showing the world the vile, miserly, hypocritical face of the American Right. You’re doing the world a great service.
As a reminder.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pmThe storm is expected to reach New Orleans on Monday, the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention and just in time for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Too bad the RNC didn’t pick New Orleans for its convention this year. It would have been the perfect storm. Can you just see GDumbya, Darth Cheney and the Keystone Kops sitting on rooftops waiting to be rescued? Or all the delegates stuck in the Superdome waiting for ice, clean water and blankets.
Just the thought of it brings a smile to my face.
On a serious note, however, I hope and pray that Gustav will die out before reaching the Gulf, drilling platforms and New Orleans.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pmND & MN share a flood plain, the old Lake Agassiz glacial lake that was once more than 400 miles across.
In ‘97, Grand Forks, both MN & ND were totally under water. But, FEMA, under the Clinton administration, actually did their jobs.
James Witt, as I recall, did a good job planning, implementing & following up on this catastrophe.
11 years later, Fargo & Grand Forks still don’t have the money promised to finish levees, diversion areas and dykes. Fargo figures it will cost a $100 million to finally protect their SE side of the city.
Yes, people moved out, but others have moved in. The Red River Valley was called a ‘500 year flood plain’. Ironically, the whole area nearly flooded again a couple of years later. Some say it should be called a ‘5 year flood plain’.
The downside is many folks cannot afford flood insurance. And just like the Gulf Coast, their home insurance won’t cover floods.
But, I digress. Glenn Beck & Rush Limbaugh should be locked in a room together and have to listen to each other’s BS for the same length of time Cheney & Bush sit in jail.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pmBeck is essentially a wus…a namby-pamby…a square from Squaresville.
But well-paid…which makes him a superior creature…
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:11 pmTo Art at #17 –
Thank you. That is the best summation I’ve heard in a while. I live in New Orleans – work here and pay my taxes here. It’s good to hear someone else talking truth.
BTW, toasterhead @ #6, the Crescent City isn’t quite as “light Cafe Mocha” as MSM would like the country to believe. As we’ve seen from the Repuke spin on everything for the last 30 years, you can make a poll to say anything you pay, oops, want it to say. Come visit, and you’ll see how diverse it really is – most of our Vietnamese population returned, many of the Hispanics and Latinos who came here to rebuild homes have put down roots and decided to stay, we – teh gays! – are back in full force, and many more of the African-American residents are back than the Administration (Nagin, Jindal, Bushco, et al) wants to admit.
Oh, and Tang-is-for-space-cadets @ #43, do you really think your baiting that the gov’t would “plant explosives” (which has been widely disproved and laughed at openly by the folks in the real world) still works? If that was true, then why did Bush/Cheney use taxpayer $$ to blow up the levees – an act that would ultimately destroy the homes of many card-carrying Rethugs. Homes (and votes) that were infinitely worth more than perhaps, oh say, the homes in the 9th ward?
Put a sock in it, you imbecile. (Tang, that is. Not T’head or Art.)
August 27th, 2008 at 3:14 pmLouisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) has said he will skip the convention if the storm continues to move toward his state.
I guess this rules out Bobby as McThesula’s VP, eh?
August 27th, 2008 at 3:15 pmBunny2 sez:
The population of Orleans parish is not mostly white. NPR is wrong!
Slow and Steady wins the race there Bunny…
Here’s what Uncle Ho and NPR actually said:
I heard on NPR this morn, that while some people are moving to New Orleans, many displaced blacks aren’t. The population is more white, and more wealthy than those displaced.
… Go Reading!!
August 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pmOT, but please take a look at McStain’s latest attack ad, the the Obama quote that is taken completely out of context:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/what-mccain-dis.html
I’d really hate to see the campaign McStain would mount if this is the “honorable” campaign he claims to be running.
My friends, my ass.
PEACE
August 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pmBuck Fush.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:18 pmBuck Feck.
Uncle Ho Says:
hussein toasterhead; so much for N.O. remaining a ‘chocolate city’.
I meant NO offense by the above statement, I was quoting the city’s black mayor.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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None taken – I was referencing Nagin’s statement as well.
If anyone here takes offense at something, it should be at the deliberate post-Katrina efforts to empty the city’s public housing of low-income black residents.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:21 pmAt least we all can officially state the the MSM is NOT liberal … it is mostly conservative
August 27th, 2008 at 3:27 pmOK, Bunny2 @ #60…you do know that the Mississippi River isn’t sea level, right?
And you do know that the river levees aren’t the ones that broke in the days after Katrina, right?
And you do know how to read a graph, right? Oops, not so much, because the graph you linked to had a mark for the Average Annual Highwater on the River – not the yearly average for river level and certainly not the current sea level. Yes, if the river levee broke at that 14′ mark, the Cathedral would suffer great damage and much of the city would be inundated.
But, those aren’t the levees that failed. Please do your homework before spewing garbage. It’s really unbecoming.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pmKatrina didn’t discrimanate you ass-hole! It affected every walk of life.
Katrina didn’t discriminate, but those in charge of the relief and recovery efforts sure seemed to…
BTW- I totally agree, anyone who thinks that a natural diaster has a political bias is sadly mistaken and has no business being on the public airwaves…
August 27th, 2008 at 3:36 pmWhen we start deporting Americans, this hate mongering, moron, named Beck should be in front of the line. This scumbag caused me to never tune into the CNN Headline News Channel ever the day they announced they were hiring a fascist who had just been booted off the radio. Beck is a mental midget.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:38 pmWhy should television and radio sponsors spend one cent supporting this neocon fundamentalist’s racist and bigoted musings?!
I guess ethics are the first casualty in the efforts to sell crap appliances and “affordable” life insurance and power chairs to the elderly and let the bad, horrible “born again Christian” live in the upper 1% financially.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pmDear Glenn:
Here is some background information that I penned after the Bush flood in New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina:
The Bush flooding of New Orleans: an unnatural disaster.
To the Editor:
“We don’t care, we don’t care” was the chant of pro-war, pro-Bush hecklers across the street from the Camp Casey peace vigil in Crawford, Texas in late August, 2005. This “we don’t care” chant pretty much sums up the attitude of the Bush Syndicate (B. S.) towards the rest of us in America. Actually, Bush, Cheney and the rest of this idiotic neo-con government believes that the only true function of the federal government is to create private money-making opportunities for themselves, their friends, and their corporate contributors. Any activity other than waging aggressive war to steal and colonize other countries’ natural resources falls into the category of “we don’t care.”
The Bush flood of New Orleans happened after the massive Hurricane Katrina had passed the city. It was both predictable and preventable. The Bush flood and the slow-as-molasses-in-January Bush response to it has ripped off the facade of the inept Bush Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subsidiary, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The upper echelons of both of these massive federal bureaucracies have been staffed by incompetent and uncaring Bush buddies, cronies, hacks, frat brothers, former roommates, horse attorneys, contributors and other miscellaneous nincompoops. In making his appointments to the executive management of DHS and FEMA, Bush gave little if any thought to their actual qualifications in the field of emergency management.
Over the last several years, Bush and the GOP-controlled House and Senate have poured over one hundred billion tax dollars into “Homeland Security.” What did we get as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina? We got homeland stupidity. After the massive flooding of New Orleans, which initially covered about eighty percent of the city, thousands of residents were herded to the Superdome where they denied water, food, medicine, bedding, toilet facilities and police protection for several long days, meanwhile the Bush gang partied and carried on with their “business as usual” and “let them eat cake” imperial attitudes. George strummed his guitar, raised campaign funds, cut cake with Senator McCain, while Connie Rice did her Imelda Marcos imitation, shopping for expensive shoes in New York City before going to a Broadway play, while Cheney first went on vacation, fishing in Wyoming and then mansion shopping in Maryland, and Rumsfeld went to a professional ball game.
In the first several days of the flooding of New Orleans cable news reporters had to point out the severity of the suffering of thousands of people in the Superdome to the heads of FEMA and DHS. These two had apparently followed the lead of the ever-clueless Bush by not watching the unfolding disaster being revealed on television.
The searing images of human suffering that were shown on television in the first several days after the flooding of New Orleans showed thousands of poor people herded into the Louisiana Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center without any water, any food, any medicines, any toilet facilities, any bedding or any police protection.
The conduct of the inept corrupt Bush regime in this unnatural disaster (the Bush flood and the slow spastic Bush response of flood relief) is nothing short of criminal. Since the illegitimate Bush regime came to power in January 2001, they have allowed and encouraged massive developments in the natural low-lying wetlands around New Orleans. The presence of these wetlands traditionally helped to protect New Orleans from the storm surges which accompany hurricanes.
The first actions of FEMA after Hurricane Katrina and Flood Bush struck New Orleans was to try to stop almost all of the volunteer, state and federal help from coming into the disaster area. FEMA blocked volunteer help from WalMart, the Coast Guard, the Red Cross, AMTRAK, hundreds of airboats from Florida, the City of Chicago emergency teams, Loudoun County (Virginia) sheriffs, the Nevada police, the New Mexico National Guard, fire-fighting planes from the U. S. Forest Service and even the U. S. Bataan, a hospital ship stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. FEMA also stopped or ignored offers of help from foreign countries including Canada, Cuba and Venezuela, over twenty European counties and Asian countries including Iran and India.
One supposes that volunteer help and aid undercuts the Bush Syndicates system of private corporations making bags of money off of the Bush war on Iraq and the Bush expedited flooding of New Orleans.
It is troubling to see many no-bid federal contracts being given to large corporations for reconstruction along the Gulf Coast. The terms of “no-bid contracts” mean that the corporations get to charge their profits as a percentage of costs incurred, so there is no incentive to be thrifty; in fact, it is the opposite, the more money that the corporate contractor spends on construction, the higher their corporate profits. Add to this the fact that Bush just signed an executive order that suspended the traditional requirement that federal contractors must pay labor the prevailing wages, instead the federal contractors can now pay workers as little as minimum wage. So the folks who are the poorest, get kicked again by Bush. He kicks ‘em again when they’re down.
New Orleans should be rebuilt on a cooperative local basis. Habitat for Humanity should be the model used for the reconstruction of the many flood-damaged homes in New Orleans. As many physically-able local residents as possible should be employed in the reconstruction of their neighborhoods.
Yours truly,
James K. Sayre
11 September 2005
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August 27th, 2008 at 3:42 pmAs for Chertie and that ice, he may have ordered it diverted to the Catskill’s where ex-Israeli Defense Force soldiers train Jewish paramilitaries. They’ve been doing it for years. Imagine a Muslim group doing such a thing?
Michael Chertoff has dual citizen, U.S. and Israeli, as do many of the neocons and Bush minions.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pmHey, bunny2. Didn’t mean any disrespect — that was the reason for my last paragraph. On the other hand, if you can’t see the irony in a bunch of white republican guys (including GDumbya and Cheney) taking the brunt of a storm instead of failing to respond to it . . . well, then, just GFY.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pmImagine another hurricane hitting New Orleans during the GOP convention. More reminders of Bush’s failures.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI enjoy reading Greg Palast. He is right on.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pmBunny2 Says:
You should take a couple of deep breaths and try to read the posts in this thread for what they are saying and not for what you want them to be saying.
Do you have an agenda to make it look like everyone here is for the destruction of an American city by twisting their words?
Folks on this board are upset with the failure of the bush administration to help the poor and left behind minorities in NO after the storm hit. Period.
If you read anything else into it then it is done willfully and probably with an agenda.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:10 pmWe shouldnt spend a dime on Florida either.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:12 pmBunny2 Says:
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Hey, bunny2. Didn’t mean any disrespect — that was the reason for my last paragraph. On the other hand, if you can’t see the irony in a bunch of white republican guys (including GDumbya and Cheney) taking the brunt of a storm instead of failing to respond to it . . . well, then, just GFY.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Irony? How would they take the brunt of the storm? We are about to start an evacuation of the city, if things keep as they are now. Again, I wouldn’t wish what happend during Katrina on my worst enemy. And it is disrespectfull! It’s like saying, “I wish W and Cheeney would have been in the World Trade Center!”. ” I can see them standing in those windows waiting and contemplating having to jump with all those other people instead of catching on fire.”. GFY!
August 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Personally , I would prefer to see Chimpy and Dickhead in prison ………Where they belong.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:17 pmOh , and Glenn Speck is a piece of crap…………..
August 27th, 2008 at 4:18 pmSeriously, what is Beck’s home state ? I bet if California, he’s not urging moving away from fault lines, etc. etc. etc.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pmXisithrus Says:
We shouldnt spend a dime on Florida either.
Bite your tongue Xisithrus. There are some good people here in Florida. I’m in Sarasota County and I am keeping a very serious eye on this storm.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:21 pmReally Bunny2, you missed the point of the posters you are attacking. If you don’t understand irony you’re probably going to be very unhappy at TP. Although as I recall the last time you were around you were a flat out troll weren’t you?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pmThe Army Corp of Engineers are not democrats silly rabbit, besides tricks are for kids.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pmBite your tongue Xisithrus. There are some good people here in Florida. I’m in Sarasota County and I am keeping a very serious eye on this storm.
I wasnt being serious…
August 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm[...]as were told they would, we wouldn’e even be having this conversation.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a model sent to the Bush administration showing what a Cat 3 or higer storm could do to New Orleans a long time before Katrina hit and asked for money to shore up the levies and were denied more money by a REPUBLICAN led administration?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:26 pmThere is admittedly, plenty of blame to go around but I don’t think you can lay this on the democrats….links and proof please.
I still does not excuse the abismial response of fema which was underfunded deliberatly by the bush admin and the actual cause of the heartbreaking events that unfolded after the storm.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pmI know.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pmShould we not send federal money for people like me who live in tornado ally either? I mean I was born here but I moved and moved back. If my house gets hit by a tornado it’s my fault and the fault of my neighbors whose houses were hit. 70% of whom vote Republican.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:29 pmBunny2 sez:
Had the levvees held up under Katrina, as were told they would, we wouldn’e even be having this conversation.
The problem is that the Bush Administration was told that they would NOT hold up under Katrina and did nothing about it…
August 27th, 2008 at 4:29 pmBTW- the reason FEMA was established is that local infrastructure and bureaucracy seem to fall apart in major natural disasters and it was deemed prudent to have a department whose sole function would be to step in and administer the recovery until local and state government had recovered enough to take over… blaming Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco for not fixing it ‘either’ kinda misses FEMA’s entire reason for existing- but don’t feel bad BUNNY2, the Bush Administration didn’t understand what it was for either, they thought FEMA was where you put horse judge’s who raise a lot of money for your campaign.
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It’s very conevenient to not also blame Katrina, Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin, and the simple fact that there was not a significant plan of action by all involved. Also, you leave out that the levees that were designed (Army Corps of Engineers), built, and funded when congress and the senate where run by democratic leadership. They never gave us enough money to build proper levee sytem protection. In other words, they did it half assed! Had the levvees held up under Katrina, as were told they would, we wouldn’e even be having this conversation.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
You’re trying to fob off blame onto individuals who enacted a project 40 years ago ???????
Kind of a reach there………..
August 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pmAt what point does CNN say that’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more? Judging by his ratings most of America already has. Does Beck have to threaten to kill somebody else?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pmCount Istvan Says:
Okie huh?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:32 pmBite your tongue. :)
There is no place like Nebraska :)
August 27th, 2008 at 4:34 pmJust pointing out… that like so many of our other beloved trolls, Bunny… just… happens to know more about the topic at hand… in this case, New Orleans, than the rest of us combined.
How… how.. timely, and convenient… huh, Bunny?
So therefore, the rest of us couldn’t possibly have any relevant comments to make about the situation down there.
I mean… the thread is about the handicapped… the troll is handicapped.
The thread is about the military, the troll has served…
The thread is about Katrina, and Bunny is an EXPERT… on New Orleans…
Just pointing it out…
August 27th, 2008 at 4:37 pmBunny2 Says:
It’s very conevenient to not also blame Katrina, Gov. Blanco, Mayor Nagin, and the simple fact that there was not a significant plan of action by all involved.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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But there was a significant plan of action – Republican party donor Innovative Emergency Management had the DHS/FEMA contract to develop a “catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans.” For $500,000, IEM came up with the brilliant “everybody fend for yourselves” evacuation plan that left more than 100,000 carless residents stranded, and local officials who objected to the IEM plan had their jobs threatened by higher-ups.
Isn’t that nice?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:39 pmWell now the thread is all about Bunny instead of Beck.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmI am tired of blaming that storm on one person.
I’ll assume you mean Bush… Bunny2, I have yet to hear anyone blame Bush for Katrina, despite his pretentions, he is not a God… I have heard lots of people blame Bush for the incompetent way the recovery was handled- I’m one of those people.
FEMA’s response was a joke, and Bush is responsible for that.
They were told, in advance, that this would be a HUGE storm that had the capacity to destroy New Orleans and Bush shrugged and went to a party, just like Bush shrugged and went to a school when told that OBL was planning an attack on U.S. soil.
We deserve better leaders, ones who actually lead and take responsibility for their actions (or lack thereof)
August 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmGee, what if people in the Netherlands had Beck’s notion of the proper sphere for public works?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmI wonder if when Bunny isn’t Bunny he’s Jim Wilke from Alaska.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:41 pmYes, I’m sure you suffered terribly. Difference is you could leave and didn’t.
Local City and state agencies were destroyed or overwhelmed in the aftermath. Who do you think should help? the tooth fairy?
As was stated earlier, fema knew that this was likely to happen and didn’t prepare for it in any way shape or form. They failed miserably and the blame lies at the feet of the bush administration and no one else.
Fema that bush inherited, the one with competent people running it did not fail and would not have failed this time.
Got any more convenient facts?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:42 pmBunny thinks everybody who stayed just wanted to stay. If you have no money and no car and there’s not evacuation plan and nowhere to go how do you leave?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:43 pmBunny2 Says:
Many people choose not to leave, rich and poor. That was their decision, and it was a poor one. I know, I was one of them. And to say they we were left behind is utter BS.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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“Chose?” I fail to see how a poor person living paycheck-to-paycheck, without access to a car, and without enough money or credit for a ticket out of town and an indefinite hotel stay, can be blamed for chosing to stay.
Yes, some people with the means to leave the city chose to stay. There were many others without the means to leave who had NO CHOICE but to stay.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:44 pmFred Says:
Fema that bush inherited, the one with competent people running it did not fail and would not have failed this time.
Exactly, Fred!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:48 pmAndrew was a disaster for Florida and the Southeast.
Why was the recovery so much easier and timely?
Because FEMA did its job competently (or rather was allowed and encouraged to do its job competently)
bunny2ears.
Nice faux outrage.
Care to extend your holier-than-thou-because-I-was-there posts to the Huckabuck thread?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:48 pmI seem to recall that some people (all black) did try to escape N.O. by walking over a bridge but were turned back at the point of a gun(cops).
August 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pmbunny2ears,
August 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pmriddle me this?
How come FEMA didn’t get in to New Orleans after Katrina for 3 days, while a few college kids with camcorders could?
How do you blame Bush for levees that were built sixty years ago!?
I don’t…
I blame him for gutting FEMA and failing to adequately prepare for the disaster’s aftermath… that was his (and the Federal Government’s) job.
I think we’ve established all that before, though…
August 27th, 2008 at 4:51 pmBunny2 Says:
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How do you blame Bush for levees that were built sixty years ago!? How do you blame Bush for Levee Engineers going to the best restaurants in the city, instead of doing their jobs, after a one hour inspection each week of 100 pus miles of levees in Orleans Parish alone? Bush was smoking his first joint then. If Bush would have come into office and declared that levees were not built properly and his first priority was to see that New Orleans had category three protection, they would not be completed today! They started new construction on the levee system after Katrina. We are being told that they won’t be complete until 2012 at the earliest. That’s three years after Katrina. That’s seven years from today if done on time. And I assure you that congress and the senate would not have given us the money. If they hadn’t for fifty years, why would they unless a hurricane hit and were accountable today. You see, that’s how goverment works. Don’t count on them to take care of you. That’s your job. As learned by what the city, state, and federal goverment has taught me.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
What part of “Bush was told the levees WOULD NOT HOLD UP” are you having trouble understanding ?
Your contentions are asinine ; no one is blaming Shrub for levees that were built 40 years ago.
They are blaming him for not doing a damn thing about the imminent warning he received (just like the August PDB he ignored) , about the force of Katrina and what would occur , and going off to party somewhere instead of doing his job………
August 27th, 2008 at 4:52 pmThat’s only true under a republican administration. There is plenty of evidence to back this up but I’m pretty sure you don’t want to hear it because you want to blame anyone except bush apparantly.
bush did it and he’s glad. He thinks it’s funny. How does that make you feel?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:52 pmEffin’ A, Beck!
Let’s force everyone (about 100 million or so) to move from all of the natural disaster-prone areas in the U.S.
Now, where to?
Hmmmm… (Google, Google, Google…)
Hey! Utah looks safe.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pmgotta go guys…..this is the bunny hop thread now anyway. Skin r and put r in the pot.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:54 pmIgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a model sent to the Bush administration showing what a Cat 3 or higer storm could do to New Orleans a long time before Katrina hit and asked for money to shore up the levies and were denied more money by a REPUBLICAN led administration?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Yup. The Hurricane Pam simulation assumed that most NO residents would be able to leave the affected area.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:56 pmBunny2 Says:
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Bunny thinks everybody who stayed just wanted to stay. If you have no money and no car and there’s not evacuation plan and nowhere to go how do you leave?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
It was the city and states job to form an effective evacuation plan. That’s my point! It was their job to handle this. They failed!
Also, do you know what “Evacuation Fatigue” means? It means you have left numerous times before when a hurricane was coming, and for whatever reason, went it somewhere else. New Orleans hadn’t had a hurricane since Betsy over thirty years ago. Many left the city, only to come back when the storm went elsewhere. Also, it was the end of the month. Many were waiting for their S.S. checks and other assistance checks. Many wanted to wait and get their checks and then leave. You see, most people around here trusted the levees to hold up. And they did, until Katrina was to much, and the levees didn’t hold.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
No one in New Orleans is the president , with access to experts who explicitly and implicitly stated that “THE LEVEES WOULD NOT HOLD UP” ; get that yet ?
You GOP/Chimpy leg humpers all laughably attempt to brag about the Chimperor-In-Chief’s extraordinary ability in not allowing another terrorist attack on US soil (while conveniently ignoring the Anthrax episode) ; yet , he failed miserably in protecting Americans living in the Gulf of Mexico area.
Shrub blows ………..End of story.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:59 pmBunny2 Says:
It was the city and states job to form an effective evacuation plan. That’s my point! It was their job to handle this. They failed!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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No, it wasn’t. DHS/FEMA took over that responsibility when they contracted the emergency plan to IEM, whose plan trumped any state and local plans.
It also assumed 60,000 residents would be killed by the storm, which may explain why there wasn’t enough shelter for the 127,000 people stranded by the evacuation. They weren’t supposed to be alive in the first place.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pmThe BUSES, Shayne, you silly, the BUSES!!
*eyeroll*
August 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pmWell, even after some 22 million spent by a republican administration the 17th street levee still leaks.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pmThat makes no sense, they let the people that ’spoiled it for the rest’ cross the bridge but not those that didnt set the fire.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pmwhile glen beck is a complete a-hole, hes totally right on this issue. no one should be allowed to rebuild in areas like below sea level areas of new orleans or in flood plains or on the coasts unless they are prepared to pay for their own post disaster rebuilding in the future. the government should offer to buy them out and help relocate but if you refuse, youre on your own. insurance companies wont insure them because its a guaranteed loss so the taxpayers pick up the tab via federal flood insurance. why should we subsidize million dollar beach houses or people that make a choice that we all know is a bad one? this is type of defiance in the face of common sense is typical conservative thinking. the whole idea that we shouldnt worry or pay a little now while we all know down the road after suffering and death the bill will be 100x as much. isnt that the lesson of katrina in a nutshell?
August 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pmBunny2 Says:
A litany of long ago refuted rightwing hivemind talking points. You are FULL of it bunny. First Levee maintenance is an ONGOING program and BUSH diverted 80% of the money to IRAQ. DUH. As for Nagin and Blanco, no city OR state has the resources to handle a catastrophe like Katrina that is why we HAVE FEMA. Unfortunaly it isnt idiot proof and Bush is CLEARLY an idiot of monumental proportions.
Title: Warnings Went Ignored As Bush Slashed Flood Defence Budget To Pay For Wars
Source: Independent News & Media (United Kingdom)
URL Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310195.ece
Published: Sep 5, 2005
Author: Geoffrey Lean
Published: 04 September 2005
Vital measures to protect New Orleans from “catastrophic” hurricane damage were scrapped by the Bush administration to pay for its wars on terror and in Iraq, despite official warnings of impending disaster.
Funding for flood prevention was slashed by 80 per cent, work on strengthening levees to protect the city was stopped for the first time in 37 years, and planning for housing stranded citizens and evacuating refugees from the Superdome were crippled. Yet the administration had been warned repeatedly of the dangers by its own officials.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pmwwew Says:
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while glen beck is a complete a-hole, hes totally right on this issue. no one should be allowed to rebuild in areas like below sea level areas of new orleans or in flood plains or on the coasts unless they are prepared to pay for their own post disaster rebuilding in the future. the government should offer to buy them out and help relocate but if you refuse, youre on your own. insurance companies wont insure them because its a guaranteed loss so the taxpayers pick up the tab via federal flood insurance. why should we subsidize million dollar beach houses or people that make a choice that we all know is a bad one? this is type of defiance in the face of common sense is typical conservative thinking. the whole idea that we shouldnt worry or pay a little now while we all know down the road after suffering and death the bill will be 100x as much. isnt that the lesson of katrina in a nutshell?
August 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Your skull is a ‘nutshell’………..
August 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pmMeanwhile Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will get a bailout for things not in a flood zone.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:14 pmI remember watching a Gomer Pyle epsiode once where he ate Welsh Rabbit…
August 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pmThe City and State did not have a working plan to get those who stayed for whtever reason!
Hence the need for some type of federal agency that could coordinate disaster relief… if only we had a department like that!
What’s that you say? FEMA?
No, no… that’s where we send top donors so they can’t screw anything up to royally, chuckle, chuckle… Oh, Brownie… what have you done this time, heh.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pmThis can happen anywhere and anytime. And under whoever is in charge.
Again, Bunny2, the disaster can happen anywhere, anytime and under any administration… the spectacular failure of the relief and the recovery efforts? That takes a special administration, a once in a lifetime (we hope and pray) presidency whose extreme incompetence and arrogant ignorance will be enshrined in the history books as the Worst Presidency Ever… the Bush Administration.
And it takes a special kind of blindness and willful obstinacy to defend them, Bunny2.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:44 pmFor those who enjoy the extremely talented musical Beck over this no talent oddball, I suggest you check out his new release.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pmBelac, try playing devils advocte with yourself. You might learn something. It took Katrina to make me look at things from all directions, not just one.
Pray tell, what strange directions are you exploring? It seems to me that you are parroting the standard apologist’s playbook… have you considered what I wrote above about Hurricane Andrew and Florida? There is some precedent for how FEMA is supposed to function, you know.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pmThe Netherlands never has a problem being below sea level. That’s because they have a much better government. Complete healthcare. Low crime. College education. Etc., etc.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:58 pmThe Army Corps of Engineers has a long record of failures, but also, Congress in 2004 was trying to CUT $72 million from its New Orleans budget.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pmBlackwater guards stopped them from crossing that bridge.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:04 pmall directions? maybe “multiple” might be a better choice of words. “All” comes across as simultaneously impossible as well as self serving…
August 27th, 2008 at 6:07 pmAnd when Beck’s home is destroyed by fire- flood – tornado – meteor- whatever, let’s hold him to this & just tell him to move away & deal with it. What a pathetic jerk this loser is. Why do right wing Repubs & pundits hate ordinary people so much? They seem to think the middle class & the poor are this huge burden on their rich society, deserving nothing while he & other greedy conservatives milk us all for everything they can get. Try reading the Bible, Beck, and help your fellow man, instead of trying to destroy him/her/them. So, everyone, remember– let’s not spend a single dime on Glenn Beck – including his advertisers.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:09 pmRight, and nobody should build near any of the rivers in this country that tend to flood. And nobody should build in any of the tornado alleys nor any of the earthquake fault lines. And definitely nobody should build near any of the coasts that could incur hurricane dammage. Oops I forgot wildfire areas.
Good plan Einstein.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:11 pmBunny2, you are nought but a troll.
You’ve done a wee bit of homework (read: Googled ’til your mouse died) and think you can pose as a New Orleanian, full or faux-rage and indignation.
For those of us who were here and really lived through it, please stop this offensive posing. It helps no one and make you look foolish.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pmBunny is just an old fashioned Bush apologist making up stories to make his hero look good. The coast guard ignored orders to stay away and came in and saved lives for which they were reprimanded. Everybody was ordered by Bushco to stay away. Either you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re a bald faced liar. Either way STFU.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:17 pmWow, Beck is a “cut and runner.” I guess he let the Netherlands kick our arse (since 60% of their country is under water).
So much for the mighty USA needing to press its agenda worldwide. We got smacked down by the Dutch..
August 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pmShayne, Gretna Sheriffs blocked some 800 people trying to walk out via a bridge. Blackwater caused trouble in other ways post Katrina.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pmBunny2 Says:
It wasn’t known for sure wether the levees would hold up! They hadn’t been tested by an actual storm until Katrina. Experts? I thought The Army Corps of Engineers were experts. They built the damn leveess. They said they would hold up. Why build levees for over fifty years if they aren’t going to HOLD UP!!! GOT THAT??? Why build them??? For shits and giggles. To make us feel safe. While our goverment say’s that we will be fine, you and your experts knew for a fact we wouldn’t be. Then how stupid am I to live here my whole life thinking those big levees were gonna protect me and my fellow neighbors? GET IT!!!! Open your eyes man. This can happen anywhere and anytime. And under whoever is in charge.
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You arent very bright bunny. He was TOLD the levees would top. A majority of the time levees top they fail. About AGAIN ongoing matenance is necessary. BUSH STOPPED THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 37 YEARS even though a force 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans was one of the top three most likely disasters on FEMA’s list. HE diverted that money to Iraq. Your weak attempt at logic is just laughable. Are banks built to be robbed? Of since they DO get robbed does that mean they were built for giggles? Are traffic lights installed to CAUSE accidents? So when accidents DO happen does that mean the traffic lights were for giggles? Your post was just dumb
August 27th, 2008 at 8:34 pmWhen the next hurricane hits NOLA head on I hope someone crucifies this prick and stands the cross against a levy.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:08 pmI don’t even know where Beck came from; One day I turned on the TV and there he was, kinda like finding a big turd in the toilet…
August 27th, 2008 at 11:37 pmA short documentary by Greg Palast on NO said it was predicted that a hurricane of that strength could do that much damage to the city. The only evacuation plan was “GET IN YOUR CARS AND DRIVE AWAY”! A Bush cronie was paid $Millions for making the evacuation plan. One study before Katrina said about 100,000 would be stranded because they had no vehicles.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:03 amSome students at Duke Univ (Durham, NC) were watching tv showing people without food and water after Katrina. They got in their 20-year-old Civic and got to NO before FEMA and got to places allegedly inaccessible! They handed out food and water before FEMA.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:24 am