Comments on: Hypocrisy 101: A Brief Review Of Hurricane Katrina

By: Dr Jeri dei Lunici

Dr Jeri dei Lunici — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:05:00 +0000

Why is our beloved President George W Bush responsible, do you honstly believe he has a hurricane creating device and aimed it at Louisiana. While the president is in charge for the entire United States of America it is up so each individual state how they what to expand infrastructure and assure the safty of their residents. The levee’s were known to be weak, they were aware they would not withstand cat 4/5 hurricanes. But, the state did nothing to repair them instead expanded tourism and entertainment fully knowing they were putting americans at risk. As for troop support, do you realize the logistical nightmare of moving 40,000 soldiers stationed across the world to a single location. Where did Nadin get the bright idea of sending people without any form of transportation in to one centralized location without law inforcement, fully knowing New Orleans’ unacceptable crime rate. I’m sorry but last time I checked well-to-do law-abiding individuals have vehicles or have someone in their lives they can get a ride with. So please dont be a hypocrit, the failure is within city government, you forgot to mention the twelve hours Nadin was MIA.

Good Luck on your next career.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:17:00 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:23:28 +0000

@spelling Nazi – thanks so much for your tip, must be our fat fingers over here ;) We’ve corrected it. Have a great day.

Chris

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:47:24 +0000

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…

By: Spelling Nazi

Spelling Nazi — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:41:20 +0000

Um, about the title? It’s spelled “Hypocrisy”.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:21:06 +0000

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?