How New Orleans is being handled.

[chickendude]

RE: How New Orleans is being handled.

The media does it because the media will get more attention if they show something bad happening.
As they say, only bad news is news. (In America at least)
Watch the documentary Bowling for Columbine, it points it out well

[-Skooter-]

RE: How New Orleans is being handled.

I thought that movie was absolutely hilarious, and it expresses the way I feel about a lot of the things that happens in our government, but I wouldn't advise you to go around and suggest it to people for actual facts or historical information. Michael Moore, did that as a joke, and what a great joke it was, still all the same, nothing more than a joke.

Not bashing you, just letting you know a majority of that movie, was fake.

[GuidoHunter]

RE: How New Orleans is being handled.

Did that as a joke my ass. While the movies ARE political jokes, he takes them seriously.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[MalReynolds]

Ben Stein Said:

A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know the truth:

1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.

2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.

3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.

4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as a man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon, which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world's worst polluters -- China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had zero to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is belief in sorcery.

5.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20 percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It's not George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.

6.) George Bush did not cause gangsters to shoot at rescue helicopters taking people from rooftops, did not make gang bangers rape young girls in the Superdome, did not make looters steal hundreds of weapons, in short make New Orleans into a living hell.

7.) George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.

8.) George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician. It takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are starting to arrive. That they get in at all considering the lawlessness of the city is a miracle of bravery and organization.

9.) There is not the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq has diminished the response of the government to the emergency. To say otherwise is pure slander.

10.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off.

11.) New Orleans is a great city with many great people. It will recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins into an effigy of George Bush that does not resemble him in the slightest will not speed the process by one day.

12.) The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had gotten her way and they were in charge of your health care.

God bless all of those dear people who are suffering so much, and God bless those helping them, starting with George Bush.

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UPDATE: Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005, 2:13 p.m.:

More Mysteries of Katrina:

Why is it that the snipers who shot at emergency rescuers trying to save people in hospitals and shelters are never mentioned except in passing, and Mr. Bush, who is turning over heaven and earth to rescue the victims of the storm, is endlessly vilified?

What church does Rev. Al Sharpton belong to that believes in passing blame and singling out people by race for opprobrium and hate?

What special abilities does the media have for deciding how much blame goes to the federal government as opposed to the city government of New Orleans for the aftereffects of Katrina?

If able-bodied people refuse to obey a mandatory evacuation order for a city, have they not assumed the risk that ill effects will happen to them?

When the city government simply ignores its own sick and hospitalized and elderly people in its evacuation order, is Mr. Bush to blame for that?

Is there any problem in the world that is not Mr. Bush's fault, or have we reverted to a belief in a sort of witchcraft where we credit a mortal man with the ability to create terrifying storms and every other kind of ill wind?

Where did the idea come from that salvation comes from hatred and criticism and mockery instead of love and co-operation?

Mal

[-Skooter-]

Very good points Mal, I actually enjoyed one of your posts Anyways, all of those things are very very true, and while I do not like Bush, and I do not see him doing what I would call a good job, he is doing what he can about this particular situation, which in it's circumstances, isn't very much. I've come to terms with the idea of it not being his fault.. which was rather hard for me to do. So thanks for the read, and the lesson

[Jam930]

Nice quote mal.

=)

[Cenright]

How Katrina is being handled.

Ben Stein Said:

5.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20 percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It's not George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.



Why is it that the snipers who shot at emergency rescuers trying to save people in hospitals and shelters are never mentioned except in passing, and Mr. Bush, who is turning over heaven and earth to rescue the victims of the storm, is endlessly vilified?

(In response to the first paragraph of the quote)

I was looking back through the timeline.

Thursday, September 1
U.S. Senate passes a relief package.

Friday, September 2
Bush signs the $10.5 billion relief package after Congress passed it. [72]

Now here is a review question.
Who had to pass the relief package first?
Hint: It sure wasn't Bush.


(In response to the second paragraph of the quote)

Ever hear of, "No good deed goes unpunished"?
People NEED someone to blame. There is no fault, but it gives something to be able to criticize, and to belittle. No matter who the president is, people love to make it his fault.

The general populus can not handle it, that there is no one to blame. Even though it gets things done faster when you are working to fix it, instead of pointing fingers, people MUST point to someone.

[MalReynolds]

RE: How Katrina is being handled.

The Government of New Orleans/Louisiana should be pointed at. They're the villains in this situation. I just don't see why no one else can see it.

It's really just a sad trend, hating Bush.

Mal

[Jam930]

RE: How Katrina is being handled.

It's rebellious, radical, artistic and cool to hate Bush.

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[trillobyite]

Wow, this thread was informative. This helped me understand alot more about the situation...I wouldn't know how to respond to any attack on Bush related to Katrina but I see that the federal gov didn't really have the immense power so many people claim it has. Thanks Mal, Cen, Jam, stretchy!