Hypocrisy 101: A Brief Review Of Hurricane Katrina

5 Responses to “Hypocrisy 101: A Brief Review Of Hurricane Katrina”

1. Ben Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 2:21 am

   1 Thats one way to look at it. You should ask. When were the levees built? Started rebuild after the civil war, 1866 State board of levee commissioners. How many presidents since then? Twenty seven.How many levees are there? Over 350 MILES. Our “COUNTRY” has known for “DECADES” that the current system of levees would not hold in category 4&5 hurricanes. Army Corp of Engineers began conducting feasibility study in 2000 and was still working right up to katrina. So who is to blame? Any great leader will accept responsibility even when it was not their fault. Cowards transfer the blame, down here the only people not accepting responsibility are the local government in the state of Louisiana. So here is the real time line. Weather channel tells everybody its going to be O.K.. Then they figured out that it was not going to be O.K.. State government,County government, City Government stands by and does nothing. Within 3 days action was taking places from fed gov. and private aid. I have been thru devestating natural disasters in 2 states and in both cases it was our local gov.that was first to respond. This is usually best since they are just down the street or in the next county or town. So here is the reallity. No president was ever going to throw billions of dollars at Louisiana. That not how it works anywhere in the world. Everybody waits for things to break and then tries to fix them. If it didn’t work that way, then no natural disaster would ever happen to anyone because everbody has endless supplies of money to throw at disaster prevention. Even if it would save just one life wouldn’t it be worth it? Well tell me this how about I start taking a $100.00, $200.00 maybe $500.00 out of your paycheck? If everybody in your country gave me $500.00 a month I could solve the WORLDS problems. So see how selfish you are? You don’t care about anyone but yourself. You make Bush look like a saint. Where is your airplane or ship full of food and water? Reply to this comment.

2. Spelling Nazi Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 7:41 am

   2 Um, about the title? It’s spelled “Hypocrisy”. Reply to this comment.

3. Mark Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 7:47 am

   3 You poor (in wisdom) misguided people. My justification for that statement is that you elect willingly to power people like P. Bush (don’t forget the W.) and His cronies who obviously have only thier own welfare at heart, judging by the 911 orchestration, and shoot people with vision like Martin Luther King and P. Kennedy. Don’t worry , you are not alone, we here in Australia allowed our Govenor General to remove the Whitlam Government by the power of the Crown. Oh, and by the way, are you going to tell me that the face of P. Bush (don’t forget the W.) when receiving the news of 911 in that classroom, was not the face of one who already knew? A look of horror, or something, or ANYTHING, would have been appropriate. As would have immediate action. Er, sorry kids, gotta go, something REALLY important has just come up… Reply to this comment.

4. Chris Posted: May 9th, 2008 at 11:23 am

   4 @spelling Nazi - thanks so much for your tip, must be our fat fingers over here ;) We’ve corrected it. Have a great day. Chris Reply to this comment.

5. Edward Posted: May 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   5 What else do you expect though when you place your guarantees in the hands of the government? When the government subsidises insurance so people can build in stupid places, when the government builds infrastructure, when the government forcefully steals people’s weapons leaving them defenseless, when the government is relied on for anything, only disaster can ensue. And yet, despite all that, the solution to Katrina was to give the government more money and more power. Idiots are doomed to repeated failure. Reply to this comment.