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- bendiggn, on 08/27/2008, -1/+12Close down New Orleans?
Is this before or after we stop consuming natural gas and petroleum?
New Orleans has its fun parts but it also plays a major role in U.S. infrastructure. - jcroisant4, on 08/27/2008, -1/+10Anyone who has the stones to hang New Orleans out to dry should not be able to visit. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Anyway . . . Living in New Orleans is fun. If the storm doesn't wash us away, ya'll should come and visit. Most of the fun stuff is fixed already.
- bcomeaux, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Not one cent? There is a middle ground on this! Did he say the same about Iowa? I don't advocate rebuilding public housing in the 9th ward, but the existence of NOLA is certainly beneficial to Louisiana and the US as a whole.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+6Glenn Beck is a douche.
- bcomeaux, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Oh, BTW, MRGO, for those of you with ZERO connection to Katrina, it is the mississippi gulf outlet. It was built by oil companies to bypass the mouth of the mississippi to make gas cheaper. One of the many ways we let oil companies do what they please to our state for the sake of our country.
It's also known as the biggest levee breech from katrina. Those people affected by it have something to say. Your welcome! Now please, hang us out to dry. Forget about us. I promise, we won't push back. - hawkeye17, on 08/27/2008, -3/+7Just give up and 'move' is so un-American. This country figures out ways to build cities that are below see level...we don't run from the challenge. Beck's a childish fool and I cannot figure out how a moron like that guy gets a TV show. And people wonder why America is in decline?? Beck and his ilk are Exhibit A.
- diggit83, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4WTF? Why are you people digging her down? She is right, the place is BELOW sea level. Its a bad idea....how much sense does that make? 50 years from now the entire place may be part of the gulf due to sea levels rising.
Its science, sorry if you live there but water > you. - Bulks, on 08/28/2008, -0/+3"This is the number one port in the country!"
"Ehhh... Blah blah blah."
Douchebag. - DavidYeah, on 08/27/2008, -5/+8Talking points, nothing but talking points. Conservatives don't REALLY want the ghost-towning of NO to become part of their legacy, they just want to push the meme that nobody that is down on their luck is worth helping. They want to paint the picture that its just a matter of choice, and that it's simple for anybody to just pack up and leave anywhere that they think is problematic.
This idea pops up in so many circumstances. If someone is working in a sweat factory in a third world, they should JUST LEAVE. If someone is being practically poisoned by the food they're eating, they should JUST STOP EATING IT, the government shouldn't get involved in keeping that food from reaching shelves. This leaves out so many factors, like ignorance about alternatives, desperation in their circumstances, the outright LACK of alternatives, and of course the lack of capital to seek alternatives that are out there.
And of course, the second you tell a conservative like Beck the reality of the situation, they're haul out the old nugget "If they were more responsible, they wouldn't be in this situation." It's the same damn playbook every single time. - bcomeaux, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3Thank you! Let's shut down MR.GO. Now do you give a ***** about Louisiana? You know we DID try and revoke lease renewals from oil and gas plants, but it got shut down. Imagine what would happen, if we were allowed to not let big oil rape my coastline.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Thank you.
- infodoc1, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Welcome to America, where any loud-mouthed sociopath can have their own cable "news" show.
- RuffRidr, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2I totally disagree with Glenn Beck on this issue. New Orleans deserves our help just as any other city in our nation would. However, don't drag Iowa into this. You don't hear Iowans on the news complaining. They are just out there rebuilding. They've gotten more done in the last few months since the flooding than New Orleans has in three years. The people of New Orleans could learn a lot from the ethics of the midwesterner.
- JerichoKS, on 08/28/2008, -1/+3And the Republicans are trying to label the Democrats as rich and out of touch? Maybe he doesn't realize that "moving out" is not simple when you're living paycheck to paycheck just trying to get by.
- diggit83, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Not a geography wiz are you? Many places are sea level, its areas below sea level that are on the coast which are a bad idea.
Would you build your house on a train track if you were told the train hasn't been through there in a while and shouldn't be back for a long time? No, because one day its coming back and your ass is getting nailed. - funnyboy88, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2Definitely thought the headline was about the musician after the first read.
- cquinnd, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Unless you lived in the French Quarter, or other sections of the region that remain above sea level.
- opticwind, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Listen, Glenn Beck is an open editorialist. His shows has jokes. He was kidding, watch the video.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2I don't want to visit and I don't want to pay for your stupidity either.
- elcalrissian, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Hes just joking, while still trying to make a point.
I dont think federal government should go to hurricane relief. Hurricanes effect 8 states. Why should the taxes paid by the 42 other states be used to cover the asses of people who live in a known, historic hurricane area? New Orleans is a busy port, maybe the state of Louisiana should apply a special tax to set up a hurricane relief fund. With proper management, an interest bearing fund could provide millions in an instant when actually needed.
This logic goes for earthquakes and fires in California, tornadoes in the great plains, and flooding in the midwest. - jcroisant4, on 08/28/2008, -1/+2buried for burying a perfectly good insult . . . douchy.
- RuffRidr, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Glenn Beck does not speak for all Republicans. As a matter of fact, the now Gov. of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, is doing everything he can to ready his state for the possibility of this hitting New Orleans. That is something the previous governor (Democrat Kathleen Babineaux Blanco) failed miserably at.
- Jexie, on 08/28/2008, -0/+1Glenn Beck is a total ***** but he is partially right this time. New Orleans is doomed, for all the money that is going to be poured into saving that place the gov't might as well just start a new city somewhere else for them.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+1True, but even then people were saying that it wasn't safe to live there due to storms and the shifting of the river delta.
- DreadPirate, on 08/28/2008, -2/+2What is it? You can't debate on the issues, so the best you can offer is pathetic insults? Buried.
- ranma203, on 08/28/2008, -0/+0He's a douche and is absolutely wrong. Guess what, I live here in New Orleans and want to share my viewpoint.
Yes we are below sea level and that causes us to be threatened by floods more than other areas in the United States. There's always the chance that the sea may reclaim us. What people forget is that everywhere has its own unique dangers. At least here in New Orleans we can prepare beforehand. How much preparation do people who live in the nation's "Tornado Alley" get? From my point of view they are the crazy people.
What about the St Andreas fault line? Scientists have known for quite sometime that "The Big One" is coming. They believe the earthquake will actually occur within this lifetime. When it happens how big of a disaster will it be? There is the possibility that California will sink into the sea or that it may shatter off and become an island. How much warning will people receive for this? None, yet hurricanes grant us about a week of warning. All of this nation's places have their own unique dangers. But out of earthquakes, tornados, mudslides, volcanoes, blizzards, tidal waves, drought, flooding and hurricanes I'll take my chances with hurricanes and flooding. It's not like we're similar to some areas in Florida where we end up having to rebuild almost every single hurricane season.
Beyond that, we are the nation’s most important sea port. Don't expect to get seafood from anywhere that even comes close to ours. Oil from our offshore oil rigs is quite important as are the refineries here. Beyond tangible goods there’s the music, food and spirits that are core to our culture here. Visit, have fun and be amazed and you may think twice about calling my home a lost cause. There is nowhere else like Louisiana and ya'll will love it here. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1Sounds like good advise to me. Of course people have been saying that New Orleans was a stupid idea do to location for longer than there's been a US and nobody hs had the wit to listen yet, so this is a waste of breath on Beck's part.
- cquinnd, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1Yeah, that's why it was a major sea port even before the US was founded, and was the crowning jewel in the decision to purchase the rest of the North American territory from the French in the first place.
- jcroisant4, on 08/28/2008, -1/+1My stupidity? You're a smelly little douche bag aren't you? Do you like to cough while your heads up your ass? Does it feel nice? Maybe you could teach your dog to lick your genitals while your heads up there . . . would that make you smile?
- cquinnd, on 08/28/2008, -3/+1By that logic, we should also abandon New York City, and much of the east and west coasts.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -11/+8It's a wash basin- it would be illogical to rebuild there.
- wynja, on 08/27/2008, -9/+4Damn, someone in MSM making sense. NEW ORLEANS IS BELOW SEA LEVEL ALREADY AND THE OCEANS KEEP RISING....... THAT MEANS MOVE THE ***** OUT!!!!
- Stevanoski, on 08/27/2008, -14/+6Beck, as usual is right. Way too much has already been thrown down a bottomless hole.
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