So I've been watching the news lately and...

[ZetaNine]

People comparing these two disasters or implying that the folks in the mid-west are somehow superior to the folks in New Orleans cracks me up because it shows either a complete ignorance of the situations or a very poorly disguised prejudice.  

actually it's a prefect example of what happens to an entire city (new orleans) when they have been handed and raised on government entitlements for 40 years.  by it's very nature.....it creates a citizenry that is totally dependent upon the government for their every need in their daily life..and in emergencies...they turn to jello.  I don't see too many disasters in the mid west where they parade in front of the media cameras asking: where is my food?  where is my government debit card? where is my fema trailer? where is my check?  the people in the midwest seem to be too busy helping their neighbors.

I won't even go into detail about the groups of roving armed thugs.........shooting at emergency helicopters...cops in uniform looting stores....I'm sure we remember seeing that. A fish rots from the head....down.

[AWMac]

Then Sponge Bob caught, actually caught, Plankton with a jar in his hands with the Crabby Patty receipe.

Sooo Busted.

Lighten up all.  People live in places that sometimes they wish not to be. There are famine stricken countries with millions of people, no food or water. Oppressed people living in refugee camps. Children whose only crime was being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Overpopulation. Mother Nature has a way of cullin the herd.

[JB88]

i am from the midwest and my family is from that area.

it is accurate.  they get together and get it done.  they do it everytime.  

it's a totally different mentality in the midwest.

from this persons point of view it is one of the very best, and i think that the entire country could learn from the example.

[DYNAMITE]

Nice pics Zeta

You're right... it was just one big party.

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[ZetaNine]

Nice pics Zeta

You're right... it was just one big party.

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shall I post some hurricane andrew pics from miami ??  ............ my post was spot-on.

[DREDIOCK]

How exactlly would you sand bag miles of levies? It's one thing to sandbag a dam or a small location, but you do understand there are miles of levies in New Orleans? So exactlly where did you expect them to start?

I remember reading somewhere that the reason why NO flooded so badly was because of the levies.

because of the levies the Mississippi doesnt deposit sediment like it should in the gulf
which in turn makes NO sink farther and farther below sealevel.

i say let the bastage flood, and then turn it into America's Venice

As for the rest of the communities along the Missisip
I'll never understand why they havent figured out that they can build homes that are elevated above the high water line.
Then they wouldnt have to rebuild EVERYTHING every few years

[Jackal1]

No roving bands of thugs.
No rioting/looting to speak of.
Everyone sort of pulling together.......and the worst is yet to come.
No big public outcry of "GIMME".
Just hard work and doing what needs to be done.
A disaster is a disaster.......period.
You do the math.

[DiabloTX]

Dynamite, you'll be amazed, AMAZED I tell ya! to learn that they did continue the party here in Houston after they were so graciously met by volunteers who had dry blankets and warm food waiting for them only to be met with questions like, "Where's my *this*?" and "Where's my *that*?" with no, absolutely no thanks for providing them with clothing and food.  The riots and looting that happned in Houston after the refugees got here was far worse than most people know.  Our beloved local news didn't report it very much, if at all.  The store I worked at got broken into 3 times within four weeks of Katrina.  Before that it was never broken into.  So, yeah, to them it was a party.  And Houston is still footing the bill for it.

[AquaShrimp]

Inner city black culture has failed.  It has a super-high proportion of poverty and anti-social behavior.

[ZetaNine]

Inner city black culture has failed.  It has a super-high proportion of poverty and anti-social behavior.

.........it's not a "black" thing.  it could very well have been whites.  the enemy in this discussion is two generations of people living on government entitlements..literally nothing but government entitlements.  an entire society called new orleans......that yes, in this case happens to be predominantly black.

If you raise two entire generations of any group of people on government entitlements (welfare) this is to be the expected result.  A society that can no longer stand on their own two feet....is completely and totally dependent of the government for their every need...and will collapse under the slightest of emergencies......not to mention riot, loot and kill under the most dire  ...rather than coming together and helping each other out...which is something absolutely foreign to them.

new orleans is a living/dying example of liberal based "government entitlement mentality" politics gone bad.

[angelsandair]

No roving bands of thugs.
No rioting/looting to speak of.
Everyone sort of pulling together.......and the worst is yet to come.
No big public outcry of "GIMME".
Just hard work and doing what needs to be done.
A disaster is a disaster.......period.
You do the math.

Nobody blaming President Bush when it's the Governers and the Mayors fault for N.O.  castrophy. And I read a report accusing some people in N.O. for stealing relief checks. Pitiful.

In Iowa, they are re-building on their own, not asking for government checks nothing.

[lazs2]

you apologists for the feral aholes in orleans need to realize that even the cops there were looting stores.  that the police were going door to door and taking the guns from the people...  that groups of thugs were driving around looting and raping.

In the midwest the people were helping each other and so far as I know.. the cops aren't looting.. the people aren't looting and raping and the police are not breaking into peoples houses and taking away their means to defend themselves.

The people of the midwest may not be perfect but they are so far from the worst of orleans as to be another species.

lazs

[angelsandair]

you apologists for the feral aholes in orleans need to realize that even the cops there were looting stores.  that the police were going door to door and taking the guns from the people...  that groups of thugs were driving around looting and raping.

In the midwest the people were helping each other and so far as I know.. the cops aren't looting.. the people aren't looting and raping and the police are not breaking into peoples houses and taking away their means to defend themselves.

The people of the midwest may not be perfect but they are so far from the worst of orleans as to be another species.

lazs

Didn't the police in N.O. break into a cadallic dealer and steal all the cars?   

[lazs2]

That would be really stupid but...

We have all seen the vid of the extremely fat and surly negro woman cops pushing a shopping cart full of shoes and such in a evacuated walmart.. they were looting and they were threatening the people who were taking the vid.

I have no idea if race is a factor... I know that like zeta says,  the welfare state and entitlement culture is a huge part.   I don't think negros of 80 years ago would have acted that way.   I think it started with the great society of LBJ and the first watts riots should have shown us the future.

If you are used to working and helping folks and being polite then that is how you will be in a disaster.. if you are used to being given everything for doing nothing and getting even more if you steal or whine then that is how you will act when a disaster strikes.

None of you hypocrites and apologists would admit that in a disaster..   you would hate to be in a welfare area.   You would all rather be in an area where everyone works and pulls their own weight.

lazs

[angelsandair]

That would be really stupid but...

We have all seen the vid of the extremely fat and surly negro woman cops pushing a shopping cart full of shoes and such in a evacuated walmart.. they were looting and they were threatening the people who were taking the vid.

I have no idea if race is a factor... I know that like zeta says,  the welfare state and entitlement culture is a huge part.   I don't think negros of 80 years ago would have acted that way.   I think it started with the great society of LBJ and the first watts riots should have shown us the future.

If you are used to working and helping folks and being polite then that is how you will be in a disaster.. if you are used to being given everything for doing nothing and getting even more if you steal or whine then that is how you will act when a disaster strikes.

None of you hypocrites and apologists would admit that in a disaster..   you would hate to be in a welfare area.   You would all rather be in an area where everyone works and pulls their own weight.

lazs

They should make a requirement for welfare to atleast graduate highschool. I guarantee that our dropout rate will be less than 10% of what it used to be.