Comments on: Katrina Fatigue

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 06 May 2006 13:41:31 +0000

Clueless clueless clueless....America is becoming a disgrace. There are 180,000 people here rebuilding this city and the comments some wrote are a joke. No federal money has made it's way here yet! Congress is holding the money up to "spread" it out more to other parts of the country. This area had/has the MOST flood insurance per captia in the COUNTRY. Get your facts straight before you make your bigoted comments about "those" people. NO ONE IN THIS CITY RIGHT NOW WANTS YOUR MONEY. All we ask is that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT construct levees, that failed DUE to their INCOMPETENCE i.e. Army Corps of Engineers, that can hold the water out. Oh wait 400 million dollars to save MARRIAGES is much more important than keeping a city safe that delivers the gas that fuels YOUR car, the coffee YOU drink in the morning and other items YOU use daily that come through this city's ports. Yeah lets shut the city down so you can start complaining about prices for goods that go up b/c it cost more to get it to you. I like that idea so YOU can be relieved that "those" people aren't getting a dime of your tax dollars....that bridge to no-where in Alaska is SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT

By: doctorj

doctorj — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:33:45 +0000

James,
You clearly don't have a clue as to the dimensions of this disaster. Come down and take a look and then you won't be bringing up examples of your Thanksgiving troubles. My Thanksgiving was spent in my sister's tree damaged home in Covington, LA. My mom and step-dad joined us from Pass Christian, MS where they still didn't have drinkable water and were living in destruction you can't even comprehend. I have an extra room. Come down and moan to the people here about self reliance. That is all we have had for 8 months.

By: cian

cian — Wed, 03 May 2006 18:55:53 +0000

Tom Delay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Conrad Burns, David Safarian, James Tobin etc, etc... The whole country is run by corrupt politicians. When's Stormy70 getting out?

By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Wed, 03 May 2006 17:37:31 +0000

Most of the Katrina evacuees who landed here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area are staying here. They like the clean schools, the booming housing market, and they can get higher paying jobs here, too. Why should they go back to a cesspool that is run by the most corrupt politicians in the country? I don't consider New Orleans to be the equal of a Florence, anyway.

By: cian

cian — Wed, 03 May 2006 17:28:03 +0000

Perhaps the problem is that Americans have too many choices. Villagers from areas destroyed by the Tsunami are already back in their home places living and re-building. There's nothing else they can do.

Its just sad that a city as unique and beautiful as New Orleans is being allowed to rot away. In the sixties, when Florence was flooded, people came from all over Europe to protect it, and stayed months afterwards helping to repair what had been damaged.

Florence fatigue? I don't think so. Not enough Christophers for that.

By: Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:37:43 +0000

Slow cleanup not unique to Katrina...

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By: Eye of the Storm » Blog Archive » Slow cleanup not unique to Katrina

Eye of the Storm » Blog Archive » Slow cleanup not unique to Katrina — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:36:33 +0000

[...] People who write rants like the one that James Joyner linked to and thoughtfully commented need to realize that New Orleans is not the only place where storm damage still stands. Places that were affected earlier are in the same predicament. [...]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:20:08 +0000

Peter King is such a liberal. If he thinks it is so tragic-you too Andy-then why doesn't he liquidate half his assets minimum and contribute? Oh yea can't do that, it's not THAT tragic.

Katrina fatigue? You bet. I'm tired of it. Those people live in a bathtub and then-surprise!-when it floods we all have to rush in to help. And most of those people were too cheap in the first place to buy inexpensive flood insurace from the govt. that we taxpayers already subsidize! And now, after the govt. already spendt bilions and billions and billions someone like Peter King has the nerve to lecture me in a sports column?? Screw him. Let New Orleans die. If not, we will all just have to pay again in the future.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:15:04 +0000

As I noted in September of last year, every successful historic reconstruction of a city following a major disaster has been spearheaded (and largely funded) by the people of the city. You may wish it were otherwise but it has never happened that way.

By: Andy Vance

Andy Vance — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:49:03 +0000

Gasp. Is this a Barbara Bush routine?

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:29:57 +0000

You'll see repairs done and people returning to the city as soon as someone else fixes up the property and buys them a bus ticket and drives them to the station.