We're screwing up...
In New Orleans, by perpetuating the same system and mentality that caused so many deaths.the system that probably caused the massive destruction.
The destruction WAS caused by a hurricane, that is true. BUT the levees that had failed were designed to withstand a category 3 hurricane; and Katrina was a category 5. For decades, NOLA had been warned that a cat 5 storm would overwhelm the levee system and cause widespread flooding. Money was appropriated; but it ended up financing social programs, instead of levee improvements. This happened because of the corrupt local and state politics.
I frequently rake Liberals because they criticize without offering any alternate plans. Let me offer MY alternative...
Let's begin by allowing the professionals to complete the work of finding/counting bodies and making New Orleans safe. Then, instead of rebuilding the town and allowing the refugees to move back into brand new, free houses, we should offer them the opportunity to earn a living by working to clean up and rebuild the city. Give the refugees first priority on jobs doing that. Those who accept get a fair wage plus a place to live while they work. Those who could, but won't get told that they are on their own, and will have to find themselves a place (and a job) elsewhere.
Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco should both be removed from office and prosecuted immediately for malfeasance in office.
Face it, people! The city of New Orleans was supposed to be an example of Liberal Utopia. It not only failed, it failed disastrously. Let's not do away with the city, let's do away with the corrupt Socialistic system that allowed the death and destruction to happen.
Oh, and while we're at it, why don't we get rid of a bunch of the race/poverty pimps who keep trying to use the disaster to advance their own agendas. I would love to make a trip to NOLA just to look upon a memorial that says, "Here lie the last remains of (insert pimp's name)...Gone today, forgotten tomorrow.".
I'm considering starting a list of those people, so that people can dig up their pasts and, perhaps, get them out of circulation.
Posted: Saturday 10th September 2005, 9:59 AM
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