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diehrd Enthusiast

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And it is there own fault , they had years to beef up levy's and generations to teach kids to get a job and take care of themselves rather then depend on the government .. Lesson of that storm is take care of you and yours so you are ready to deal with a situation that requires you to fend for your own family.

 

To me whats appaling is the amount or welfair dependent people that city had . . .

Chestah Senior Enthusiast

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Many of the houses that were destroyed had vehicles that cost twice as much as the house itself parked there.

 

My dad was there giving aid in a couple days afterwards. Many people refused water because all they wanted was beer. Pretty pathetic.

diehrd Enthusiast

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Why work for it when they are willing to give it to you for free? Welfare breeds laziness

 

 

Welfare does not breed,,, people do .. and when you breed another life and teach it to be useless and lazy you have to blame the PEOPLE not the welfair system......A good system that started with good intentions .. PEOPLE made it what it is ,,, and people always seam to blame institutions or other entities for the problems when the simple answer is the people are the problem not the system . .

AFD256 Enthusiast

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I 100% agree welfare is awsome in theory. And it does help people when they are down and then they move on. And I know people breed. Welfare is the enabler that let people do nothing and get away with it. The people who leech off it are as much to blame as the people that run it, the institution. Rather than stand up and set guidelines/rules to prevent the abuse of the system they let it go and the cost falls on the back of the bluecollar/middleclass. So yea I do blame the people who abuse it AS WELL AS the institution that governs it and turn a blind eye. Maybe if we spoke up more we would be listen to rather than the month who yells the loudest and walks away with our hard earn money sitting at home thinking thay are owed it.

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And it is there own fault , they had years to beef up levy's and generations to teach kids to get a job and take care of themselves rather then depend on the government .. Lesson of that storm is take care of you and yours so you are ready to deal with a situation that requires you to fend for your own family.

 

To me whats appaling is the amount or welfair dependent people that city had . . .

 

 

The Army Corps. of Engineers maintain the levys.

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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And it is there own fault , they had years to beef up levy's and generations to teach kids to get a job and take care of themselves rather then depend on the government .. Lesson of that storm is take care of you and yours so you are ready to deal with a situation that requires you to fend for your own family.

 

To me whats appaling is the amount or welfair dependent people that city had . . .

 

As far as I know...It's the government's job to build those levees in order to protect the citizens. Of course...It's the citizens that should be electing people into office to do that.

 

The whole deal makes me sick. There's no one person, organization, or government agency that can be blamed....There were failures all across the board. From the retarded people that didn't leave all the way to the highest levels of government and every step in between.

 

The only thing to do at this point is to clean the place up, fix what's broke, and unf*** the systems in place so that it doesn't happen again.

Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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People need to account for their own survival on some level. Living BELOW sea level right on the coast is asking for disaster sooner or later. Waiting for the next hurricane to hit and sitting on your collective a$$es until the FEMA check comes is a joke. All we are doing by rebuilding NO is creating a long term babysitting job for the government that is going to be even more expensive to fix the next time this happens... and it will happen again.

 

Looks like it is time to move the city North if you ask me. Money better spend and people better served in the long run.

 

As far as welfare goes...I'm all for helping those who CANNOT help themselves. Those who WILL NOT help themselves can drop dead.

 

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day... Teach that same man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

General Lee 01

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The biggest problem that came from the storm was the true ugliness of the situation with all the looting and lawless-ness that ensued. Because FEMA didn't initially respond, BECAUSE Mayor Naigin shooed them away when they initially responded.

 

I don't like playing the blame game though. Cause if you wanna blame FEMA, you gotta Blame Naigin. Wanna blame Naigin? You gotta blame the people who elected him as mayor.

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day... Teach that same man to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day and drink beer."

 

I like it that way better :cheers:

 

As for NOLA, I say don't move it...Build everything on stilts and let the water in permanently. We could have our own Venice. That would REALLY rule.

-Devil- Enthusiast

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day... Teach that same man to fish and he'll sit in a boat all day and drink beer."

As for NOLA, I say don't move it...Build everything on stilts and let the water in permanently. We could have our own Venice. That would REALLY rule.

 

 

that has been my main comment the whole time since it happened .. just let the water stay .. and build the city on top of it ...

 

everyone is to blame, .. i dont just blame one place ... i blame from the top .. to the ones that tried to ride out the storm .. for what ever reasion ...

 

but there was more then just 'welfare' people affected by it ...

Draenor Senior Enthusiast

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The biggest problem that came from the storm was the true ugliness of the situation with all the looting and lawless-ness that ensued. Because FEMA didn't initially respond, BECAUSE Mayor Naigin shooed them away when they initially responded.

 

I don't like playing the blame game though. Cause if you wanna blame FEMA, you gotta Blame Naigin. Wanna blame Naigin? You gotta blame the people who elected him as mayor.

 

An they still re-elected him as mayor! ....Now he is thinking of running for governor. He wants to turn our state all to chocolate.

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