Re: Re: MD Katrina - Thousands Dead ?

From: kissel1@cox.net
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 01:13:08 BST

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    Platt:

    One simply has to look at the behavior during the aftermath, and we're only seeing a minor fragment of what has transpired. That darn Bush should have never created that hurricane!

    Clarke
    >
    > From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
    > Date: 2005/09/06 Tue PM 03:08:36 EDT
    > To: moq_discuss@moq.org, owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
    > Subject: Re: Re: MD Katrina - Thousands Dead ?
    >
    > Clarke,
    >
    > I lived in New Orleans for two years and came to the same conclusions you
    > reached having lived there all your life. Those who would like to deny our
    > eyewitness evidence have their work cut out for a them.
    >
    > Platt
    >
    > > Just out of curiosity, why do the snide comments and personal insults
    > > always seem to emanate from the Left? Regarding Katrina, I tend to agree
    > > with Platt in the sense that possibly no city in the entire USA embodies
    > > Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" more than New Orleans. Between "Section
    > > 8" housing (free rent), Supplemental Security Income (if your child can't
    > > read in second grade you get an additional 200 dollars a month), food
    > > stamps, welfare, medicaid, and approximately 85 other programs many
    > > residents in the metropolitan New Orleans area can go from cradle to grave
    > > and measure their work history in months. True unemployment of able-bodied
    > > adult men and women is 50%. Yet many of the "poor" have cell phones, cable
    > > TV, and new automobiles. Still, it is a corrupted culture that is incapable
    > > of taking care of itself. Unlike the midwest floods ten or so years ago
    > > where people banded together to help one another, in New Orleans even some
    > > of the policemen have participated!
    > > in the looting and mayhem. I could go on and on about the social
    > > disarray because I was born and raised in New Orleans and live one block
    > > from the now infamous 17th Street Canal. Fortunately for me, the
    > > floodwall breech is on the east side, while I reside on the west. I'm
    > > fairly dry and can walk one block and see houses with water that was
    > > recently up to the roof. Hope all is well with everyone.
    > >
    > > Clarke
    >
    >
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