"Michael Harper"  wrote in message
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> "Josh Hill"  wrote in message
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> > So again, it's not really a legal issue, but a management one. By
> > comparison, after the great earthquake in San Francisco, aid poured
> > in, including troops and train after train of supplies.
> >
> > Now -- we still don't have a commitment from the Federal Government to
> > build levees that would survive a Category 5 storm, and the
> > Administration left to the local government important decisions, e.g.,
> > about where people could live. It seems to me that that's where we
> > need -- or needed, because it may be too late in some cases --
> > legislation: the Feds build better levees and, in return, require the
> > city to abandon low-lying neighborhoods.
> >
> Sadly, it's all kinda moot. As long as Bush is in the Oval, nothing will
get
> done. New Orleans might get a little help, but not enough to matter.
> Gulfport, Biloxi, Pascagoula, all the other small cities in the Gulf
Coast,
> will get what they've gotten all along, nothing. And it's a blow against
the
> poor, nothing else. The ones who are hit hardest by all this are the poor
> who lived in the Lower Ninth, in Metarie, and on the Mississippi Coast.
All
> poor, mostly black and Cajun. In the eyes of Bush and his awl bidness
> buddies, they don't matter.

Ah...so its only Bush's fault.
Not the mayor "chocolate city" Nagin
Not the governor, Blanco,
Not the state legislature,
Not the NO & Louisiana representatives, not their senators.....

>
> In Sahara, there's a point where the bad guy warlord, Kazim, tells the
> French bad guy Massarde, "This is Africa. Nobody cares about Africa."
>
> Well, it looks like nobody in power cares about the Gulf Coast. Sadly, I'm

Over 109 billion dollars in aid to the Gulf coast region, and that's
unconcern?

> not in power. I had friends down there, and with one exception I don't
know

Well...you can try to change that.

> if any of them are alive. I know Bob Asprin is, but a woman that I knew
for
> a very long time may be dead. My uncle Hal and his wife were in Gulfport.
> I'm not sure what happened to them.
>
> I've got to get some sleep. Tomorrow's gonna be a bitch of a day.
>

Dennis


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