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