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- jaredpointer, on 08/27/2008, -20/+75At some point, you gotta stop being sorry and do something for yourself. Move or rebuild, it's no one else's fault but your own after three darn years. That's what's wrong with this country - everyone is always expecting a bailout without doing anything on their own.
- MtheoryX, on 08/27/2008, -3/+50New Orleans has needed a military or strong police presence for at least two decades before Katrina.
- j0hnk377y, on 08/27/2008, -10/+46How many years do we have to hear this Katrina crap?? Enough already. Pull yourself up New Orleans. It's just embarrassing how inept your state and city is. At some point you have to look in the mirror and admit your ***** is not together. I know you started out as a French colony, but that was a long time ago.....you need to shake off the victim crap and step up.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -2/+33Yeah, this is probably going to sound awful:
New Orleans needed the National Guard even before the Hurricane. I've been there in 2002, large parts of it already looked like south american slums.
The situation was bad already. Now it's even worst.
These people don't need money, they need an education.
We're talking about people who speak a form of english the rest of the country wouldn't even understand. - zhephree, on 08/27/2008, -1/+24This article kinda of paints the picture wrong.
The reason we need military help is because the number of police in the city is far less than it was pre-Katrina due to deaths and those that abandoned their posts. Yeah, the crime is high, but it's always been like this. We've just been under a brighter microscope after Katrina. I'm not saying we're complacent with this, but it's not like the military is here because it's essentially a warzone. It's that the crime to cop ratio favors the crime more than the cops.
I've lived here my whole life and I don't feel any less safe today than I did August 28, 2005. In fact, I actually mind less going into supposed "bad neighborhoods." - twiztidsinz, on 08/27/2008, -3/+21http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(firearm) The detachable magazine is often referred to as a clip; the correctness of this usage has been the subject of debate for most of a century.[1][2]
Yes... it IS incorrect... but it's such a common mistake that only a douchebag looking for attention would bring it up. - mediaspree, on 08/27/2008, -3/+17http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/images/at200 ...
Ruh Ro! - 3leggedHorse, on 08/27/2008, -0/+13Joke is looking at the 5 day forecast for hurricane Gustav by Sunday it's in the mid gulf turning toward New Orleans / Louisiana, as a cat 4-5. That would be incredibly unlucky if it got hit again.
Still that is a long way off in forecasting times. - slsashrk, on 08/27/2008, -8/+20too bad I can only digg you up once...
- Necoras, on 08/27/2008, -2/+11So your argument is that because morons are deciding to be violent and selfish instead of civilized, the government isn't doing its job? I'm no fan of McCain, but this seems like it's more an issue of stupid people congregating in one place than it is nobody's taking control.
- chocobomog, on 08/27/2008, -1/+9New York didn't break down and loot itself after 9-11. San Francisco didn't collapse after the 1989 earthquake which devastated the city. New Orleans didn't try to destroy itself in 1965 after Hurricane Betsy struck and the levees failed and flooded 165,000 homes. Worse yet, these Katrina victims were warned far in advance of Katrina and how it could be another Betsy in terms of damage, yet they stayed behind.
- revjustin2, on 08/27/2008, -4/+12If it was that easy, I am sure they would have done it. Your attitude is pretty naive. Do you think that people live in bad parts of cities because they love it there? That may apply to a very small percentage, but for the most part, if people have the means to live in a better place, they do. The grand majority of people in poverty in the US have at least one job, so it's not like they are sitting around all day watching soaps. Imagine being in a situation where you live from paycheck to paycheck, are working 12-15 (or more) hours a day at some crap-ass job, and are still struggling to pay bills. It's not like you have time (or the means) of finding work in another city along with another place to live. The simple act of getting to that other city is hard enough since you don't have a car.
I am not saying that it's not possible, but what I am saying is that it's a situation that is a lot harder than I think you'd care to believe. There are some amazingly difficult obstacles in the way of doing even some very basic things. Add to that the simple fact that you're just plain tired and burnt-out from working all the time and it's hard to muster up the desire to put all the various wheels into motion to move. Add a family into that equation and you've just made it 100 times harder. - revjustin2, on 08/27/2008, -1/+8Every one should be an expert on guns, right?
- johnnall, on 08/27/2008, -3/+10You speak the truth sir. There is no excuse after 3 damn years.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -0/+7I have lived in New Orleans all my life and I completely agree with the rest of the country. Yes, what happened was unfortunate, but it's 3 years later and a lot of the areas still look the same as 2 months after Katrina hit. People need to get off the ***es and build their own houses back up, quit complaining and waiting for the government to do it, get you your hands dirty and do it your ****ing self. There have been multiple neighborhoods that have come back after the storm and guess what, it wasn't because our corrupt politicians rebuilt them it was because the community gathered around and did it themselves. I have plenty of friends who's homes were destroyed by the storm, they lost everything including their pets (which I personally think they should of brought with them when they left, but that's a different story) they have rebuilt their lives, they still live in New Orleans and wouldn't trade it for anything but they didn't get help from the government. They haven't been living in FEMA trailers for the past 3 years and complaining about their circumstances. You don't see people in Mississippi whining and complaining about what happened to them (Katrina did make landfall closer to Mississippi after all ) they either moved or rebuilt. Drive up the coast and you won't see FEMA trailers littered all over the place, you see construction and people rebuilding. After 3 freaking years you would think people would stop feeling sorry for themselves, stop looking for hand outs and do something about it! I think that pretty much any other state in this country would. Look at Florida they get hit multiple times a year with storms and you don't hear them complaining about it nationally 3 years later. Alright, guess I'm done venting now.
- thedogfatherx, on 08/27/2008, -2/+9Spot on....spot on......their city definitely doesn't have their sit together. If they would of planned for the inevitable and stopped blaming everyone else they wouldn't look so stupid.
- TheKingInYellow, on 08/27/2008, -2/+9i've moved on. we moved back to nola a year after katrina and realized that we had made the wrong decision. we moved out again. i don't think we'll ever live there again.
- smity9384, on 08/27/2008, -3/+10If you're interested in some statistics about race and crime rates, here is a PDF on it.
PDF: http://www.amren.com/colorofcrime/color.pdf
I'm sure someone will digg me down as a racist. Kinda sad how linking facts means I'm racist. - thugok, on 08/27/2008, -0/+7Where in South Florida? The fact is the insurance and FEMA money that poured into here after Andrew rebuilt this place far better than it was in the first place.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -5/+11I think it is interesting that nobody is stating the obvious for fear of being called racist. Oh well I don't really care about Nagin's Chocalate city anyway. BTW Nagin is one of the most incompetent mayors in the entire country. He and that crook Kwame Kilpatrick should immediately resign. We need to have more capable mayors like Cory Booker, mayor of newark new jersey.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -4/+10Ray Nagin - Democrat ...Mayor of New Orleans. What a great leadership example
In an interview with Public Radio International's Tavis Smiley originally broadcast on January 13, 2006, Nagin said that he has never been a Republican and is a "life-long Democrat." Also in that interview, Nagin used the phrase "chocolate city" in reference to New Orleans' future demographics!
Didn't know the neocons ran New Orleans? - Flipdawg27, on 08/27/2008, -1/+7Thank you. It always sounds bad, but at some point people need to take responsibility. Remember when all the flooding was occuring in the midwest and there was massive devastation/state of emergency? There was no bitching and no crying for federal aid. The people banded together to rebuild and help eachother. Many of these people were no better off financially than those in New Orleans, but they got back on their feet almost immediately. Don't tell me it can't be done.
- smurfsahoy, on 08/27/2008, -2/+8That's nice, but national taxpayers shouldn't really be funding your makeshift police. Police are locally funded everywhere else in the country.
- philipl411, on 08/27/2008, -2/+8the questions I have wonder since Katrina. Why were these home BUILT on the ground instead of stilts high enough to keep houses out of water if it floods? Why are they doing the same stupid thing AGAIN?
- Mier, on 08/27/2008, -0/+5Didn't hear Mississippi complaining when their coastline was scraped clean by Katrina. That's probably because they put their head down and cleaned up instead of waiting for the government to come save them.
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -0/+5More like "I don't care to hear about black people's inferiority complex anymore." Love the people, change the mindset.
- sassy343, on 08/27/2008, -4/+9its 16 years since hurricane andrew and things still aren't right in south florida. But you never here anyone talking about that. So ***** up.
- IILiLJohnII, on 08/27/2008, -0/+5A Few Years? According to the forecast of Gustav it Looks like a couple of days.
- TheKingInYellow, on 08/27/2008, -2/+6if nola is hit with another hurricane we will hear about it...however, no one will care.
- zhephree, on 08/27/2008, -0/+4There's been a pretty widespread advertising campaign to get new officers down here. Obviously, I don't know how well its doing in markets other than my own, but in a town with all this negative press, who'd pack up and move down here to fight the crime the larger media says we have?
I get your Chicago point, but that's not what we're doing. The National Guard is only in the 3 most destroyed areas: Lower 9th Ward (that you no doubt saw all over TV), Lakeview (an upper-middle class neighborhood), and St. Bernard Parish (further south from NOLA and completely devastated more than NOLA itself). Rarely would you see them in the French Quarter or in the suburb of Metairie.
There's a certain reaction that criminals that have zero regard for the law will react more to people in fatigues in a humvee with a big blue light on top than for some chubby NOPD cop in a blue button-down. They seem to respect (for lack of a better word) the military more than local police.
No one is saying we need them forever, but until we get our police force closer to 2005 levels, we need the help. Before Katrina, NOPD had 2000 officers. There's about 1100-1200 now. We lost almost half the police force. And they're all focused on the harder crimes. I dare you to get a traffic ticket in New Orleans proper. They've got bigger fish to fry.
We're doing a lot down here. It might sound like we're just throwing our hands up in the air and saying "***** it, you guys fix this" but that's not it at all. The media likes to sensationalize things to get a story out of a non-story. If everything you know about the situation down here is from the media, you can't possibly know the half of it. I'm not telling you to "spend a week down here and then you'll know" like a lot of people say. Hell, I honestly don't care if you blow off everything I'm saying. The short and skinny of it is, things aren't as bad as people are making it out to be, but we still need some outside help, at least for a while until we get back on our feet. Chicago's back on its feet from the fire, am I right?
And three years for an entire city to completely rebuild its infrastructure is not absurd. Not to sound like a dick, but there's still an big empty space in NY. If people can't ban together to form a plan to rebuild a small section of a huge city after almost 7 years, I don't see how 3 years to rebuild almost an entire city and its outlying areas is unreasonable. Hell, on 3 days after Katrina hit and the water was everywhere, analysts said it would take a minimum of 10 years to be back 100%. I'd say at about 45-50% in 3 years, we're making good time.
Also, thanks for the National Guard bit. Didn't think of that. - geauxtig3rs, on 08/27/2008, -0/+4you don't think biloxi is a "decent size US city?"
- gnixon70, on 08/27/2008, -0/+4what boggles my mind is that joke Nagen was actually re elected.....
- Chimone, on 08/27/2008, -1/+5Damned white people causing the national guard to be called in.....err wait
- nilcam, on 08/27/2008, -2/+6I grew up in New Orleans and left after the hurricane. The people there need more than education; they need to learn to accept change. New Orleans is stuck in the past and very few people want to change it.
- chocobomog, on 08/27/2008, -1/+4They aren't kidding about the crime down there. It is tragic how a few of the remaining inhabitants treat those who came to their aid. My classmate's father was a local policeman who took a leave to go volunteer and offer aid in New Orleans. One day her father was assisting refugees with their FEMA trailers when a young man walked up and shot him in the head. The man then robbed his body and stole their car. To this day my classmate and her family can't fathom how something so noble as her father dropping everything to go assist those in need could end so tragically.
- funkshun, on 08/27/2008, -6/+9All of you give New Orleans such a ***** rap.
New Orleans just gets media attention because of what happened. Take any decent size US city and have what happened to New Orleans happen to it, instant cesspool and breakdown of any type of society. - sailor, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3First and foremost they are crimminals.....the fact that they are Liberals is just more proof of what liberals really are...power/money/fame hungry crimminals. OH OH...but liberals are going to bring change...change...change...yeah right!
Think about this when you vote in November...you will be voting for more Nagins and Blancos....and you will be voting to pay for it all with taxes.... - proxybot767, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3we will just wait till monday and see what happens, thanks to Gustav.....
- soupdawg30, on 08/27/2008, -10/+13Look at the plus side. In a few years it'll be hit by another hurricane then we won't have to hear about this ***** anymore.
- zhephree, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3I agree in that if I didn't live here, I'd be saying the same thing.
However, it IS the federal government's responsibility to aid its states when they are in need. The National Guard can be deployed by the State. The State takes care of the city and Washington takes care of the State.
What else would the National Guard be doing right now if they weren't patrolling New Orleans? The men and women are already "there."
My point is, I agree, taxpayers of other Sates shouldn't have to bear our burden, however, the levels of government above the local level have the responsibility to aid the local governments in times of need and unfortunately, those larger levels of government are funded by the taxpayers. This situation of "taxpayers funding [our] makeshift police" is a by-product of a 232-year-old system. - executorzz, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3It's not a violation of the act since they are national guardsmen and not federal troops. They were sent in by the governor of the state and are not in there in a federal capacity.
- smurfsahoy, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3He wasn't saying it's easy. he's saying these people aren't lazy or greedy. They aren't using an old storm as an excuse for federal aid - they needed it ANYWAY.
- kublerross, on 08/27/2008, -4/+7Mission Accomplished!
- inactive, on 08/27/2008, -0/+3What liberal thing has he done? Oh, that's easy. He waited around for the government to bail his dumb ass out instead of using is authority to get things done. And then when he failed at that, he blamed the government for not saving his ass.
- TheKingInYellow, on 08/27/2008, -2/+5things must be really bad in florida...let me help you out.
it's = it is
hear = sound coming into your ear - inactive, on 08/27/2008, -3/+6Two words, proper nouns the both of 'em, are the cause and reason for New Orleans problems:
Nagin and Blanco.
These two mental midgets should have tried and convicted years ago, unfortunately stupidity isn't a felonious crime yet. However fraud, racketeering, bribery, and general incompetence are. The media consensus was that the Katrina disaster was Bush and FEMA's fault. However, if you look at the details, Governor "Huh?" Blanco and Mayor "Chocolate City" Nagin are responsible for far more damage and suffering than Katrina could ever be held accountable for. Oh, and since it is the season of displeasin'...they're liberal Dems aren't they? - chairlift, on 08/27/2008, -3/+6scum of the country, and they got billions of our tax dollars and laid back and had the government do everything for them, we had floods just as bad in wisconsin and we did something, unlike these low-life's, send them to mexico and bring illegals in, at least they appreciate this country
- mtjohnson, on 08/27/2008, -3/+6Racist.
American Renaissance (abbreviated AR or AmRen) is a monthly racialist magazine published by the New Century Foundation.[1] The magazine's founder Jared Taylor has been called a white separatist.[2]
The magazine and foundation were founded by Jared Taylor, and the first issue was published in November 1990. A main theme of the magazine is a claim that non-white minorities pose a demographic threat to the United States and other Western nations. The magazine argues that the United States' major social problems are due to racial diversity and a weakening of the country's white racial heritage by increased non-white immigration. - zombies187, on 08/27/2008, -0/+2I hate to break it to you, but the Corps says it won't hold back a cat 1. You will get your wish.
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