Using Katrina is a sick thing

[blues90]

It is obvious to me that little has been done in New Orleans to date . Now suddenly and only since it is a year later this becomes the topic from all sides .

In all reality new orleans should have been a vibrant topic since it accured a year ago . There are so many problems and now they talk about how long it will take and put this in prime news shows .

Lets face it , this area should have been well past where it is now , all the people who lived there should be back and all money should be in their hands and the rebuilding should be well advanced by now and look at it , it's all photo op's with what should have could have would have crap .

No one can convince me that anything is going well and these people sitting at their polished round tables should hang their heads in shame , it's just hype and talk and as soon as this passes and 9/11 climbs back to the news it will be all forgotten as it has been .

The people in charge in this country make me sick , you can count on no on and as long as people are not directly affected they stay clear other than to watch these shows and go on my goodness .

This country is one sick slab of land and i have lost faith in humanity . if you hit bottom you are discounted and that's the reality .

We have no system , what we have is a who profits and can lie the best land of lost freedom .

Only the groups of citizens really care for the rest it's just another day of news and a marked day on an old calender .

What's happening to this country , we put all effort into profits and killing , we are able to sit back and allow this to happen . Thousands have been left to die or sent off to die in a lied into war , it is all about death and this seems to be promoted and rewarded . It's all politics and political position . none of this helps anyone who is in distress .

Why not just round up all who are deemed misfit and misplaced and get it over and then they can go on with their un- human world until they make their own selfish end .

I am so sick of this same old play book and it never ends and becomes worse by the day .

They fly in and walk around new orleans and tell how they will fix this and have the idea of moving ahead with all those who have died and suffered forgotten ,they had lives and now they are out of the picture of all except those who knew them .

Just like Lebanon , they talk about rebuilding , what about all who died , do they matter , do the troops and Iraqi's who died and continue to die matter or are thay all just a foul number on a list somewhere .

Destroy and murder then rebuild , makes no sense to me at all , this is going backwards . Don't talk about things just destroy it first then talk about rebuilding and then do absolutely nothing .

You know what the joke and the worst part is , this will never change or end .

[RB TexLa]

1. Easy way to know if someone is sincere

If they are not from Louisiana they don't care.

[Caution]

2. I think that's a little much

I'm not from Louisiana and I most definitely care. I know for a fact that my congress critter cares as well (John Tierney (D-MA)

[MADem]

4. I agree with you...I and most of my neighbors opened our wallets

(and many of us on fixed incomes, too) after the disaster, and I have NEVER BEEN to LA.

I like the food, the music, and the value-added that the city and state provide to our American culture. It's a place that has made our nation richer and better.

The impossible to ignore human suffering 'as seen on Tee Vee' is what motivated me to do what I could.

I think that assertion is WAY off the mark.

[Swamp Rat]

8. Thank you n/t

[Swamp Rat]

9. Thank you n/t

[ramapo]

3. A truly shameless bunch

Yep, BushBoy will fly into N.O., proclaim what wonderful things are happening thanks to his admin, salute the brave people of N.O. and the Gulf Coast and fly on to the next fundraiser.

Look, nobody really complained about 9/11 becoming a political tool and little more. The Katrina aftermath has little resonance with America past a "that's terrible".

There is little attention paid to the ever increasing number of deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, no recognition of the huge number of Iraqi dead.

There are two things that matter, power and money. All the rest is blather aimed to gaining more of money and power.

There is little real regard for others. If there was, we'd all be living different lives.

[votefordan]

5. On of Louisiana's problems is our own elected officials.

I live down here in the New Orleans area. One of the current problems we are having is that our own Congressman are to worried about their own lives and their own political careers to worry about actually getting us the help we need.

Take my Congressional District for example. Republican Bobby Jindal, a 1st term Congressman who came in 2nd in the Governor's race in 2003 and is considered to be very likely to run for Governor in 2007. What does this mean to the New Orleans area? Well, it means that if Bobby Jindal runs for governor that he will spend most of 2007 running for office again when he COULD be working on the needs of Louisiana.

This is why I have decided to become the campaign manager for David Gereighty, http://www.gereightyforcongress.com (a website that is a work in progress) and will help him out.

One of the best things you can do to help out our fair city is to get people you know to support David so we can get some people elected who are actually committed to helping New Orleans rebuild instead of people who are committed to getting themselves another political title.

[Swamp Rat]

10. Way'at votefordan!

:hi:

[votefordan]

14. LOL

Kenner Louisiana

you?

[Swamp Rat]

15. Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?

Who dat? :D

Carrollton.

[blues90]

6. I don't live there either

however it does not stop me from being aware what has been going on . i heard the fellow from humid city .com on Malloy's show and even though i have bee out of work for 6 months my wife and I donated to change for change just to do something .

I even inquired about gong there if it meant living in a tent to volunteer my time just to do something productive but i have got little response to where i could live , all i need are a roof and food .

Now I doubt if I can afford to even drive there .

Katrina is an example to me of just how people are not important in the grand scheme of things . I got an email from Barbra Boxer one of my senators , she expressed how FEMA is not prepared and has no plan if there were an earthquake in calif . So whatever they claim seems to be another big lie about being prepared for anything .

I fight with the reality every day and i must say the reality does not look good for anyone who is not on the top of any ladder .

[walldude]

7. The Shrub is on CNN now talking about

what a great job the government is doing to help the people of the gulf coast. :eyes:

[partylessinOhio]

11. I agree that it is a sick thing to use Katrina for his photo op today.

Bush has been speaking for some time now live from Biloxi, Mississippi.

One remark he made was, "You can't rebuild a community when the community is full of debris!" NO, sh!t!

One year later and the debris has still not been cleared. Shame on *, shame on America.

[TahitiNut]

12. Necroconservatives.

A neologism for the day.

Profiting both privately and politically on death and suffering.

[blues90]

13. BUSH ! I can't even watch this criminal fool

Out of this entire country and the enormous profits these energy companies are raking in this is where the money should come from and NO would have been build right back to the exact way it was .

ALL of the people who died in Katrina should have been found long ago and all should have been taken care of as a major priority , all of those that parished should be remembered and a monument erected on their behalf and their family members who survived should be taken care of long ago . It is criminal do anything less .

Here is a city people from all over the world came to visit and yet if is ignored . To title it an anniversery is an abomination , it is a year marking willfull ignorent loss and abandonment of human beings .

Rebuilding the levee to catagory three is a patch job almost inviting more disaster , it's almost a test to see if the rest of NO can survive another storm without spending too much money to do it right . Who can be certain they are even at level three , this means nothing .

No one knows how long this will take and i get the impression , rather i know , it doesn't matter to the powers at be . One thing is for certain , if they had the desire to do the right thing it would be done by now . This cannot be ignored with any conscience .

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Using 9/11 is a very sick thing, and still they persist! Every election

cycle, they drag it all out again. Sick fucks!