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Originally Posted by Panda Survival of the fittest?
One would think the richest nation on earth could at least take reasonable steps to ensure its citizens live in relative safety. Prudent urban planning comes to mind. Its been well established that New Orleans was ill prepared for this anticipated disaster both in preparation and the aftermath. Now all we are seeing is the blame game of whose fault it all was. Blaming the poor people who just happen to live there and have suffered as a result of government neglect is pretty low. | Panda..
You are way off base with your post...Yes, initially the reaction of the govt to the problem was not good, but then it kicked in and went overboard in the other direction...Now they feel the govt owes them...Thr hurricane was over 2 years ago and thousands have done nothing except live in their govt supplied housing...house trailer, hotel rooms or paid apts...It is time to get off the public dole..Enough...If nothing is done, the welfare state called New Orleans will go on forever...
Also another fact..the population of NO is now about 50% of the pre hurricane population but they still want morew and more..Get od\ff the dole and get a life..
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So whats the solution?
If all those people just "GO AWAY" someplace else there will be no problem ?
A nice easy solution for everybody, especially the government bureaucrats who failed in urban planning and follow up contingencies to deal with the disaster.
2 years on the garbage has been cleaned away but a lot of residents with no where to go are left. Where are they going to go?
Its OK now to say they should all just piss of to some place else and stop being a burden on the taxpayer, but if all you guys are so smart now, why didn't you (and the bureaucrats who now blame the people) do something about it BEFORE this disaster happened? Durr.... well we were just hoping it wouldn't happen, -- same as the people who lived there.
There has been a lot written and spoken about what could have been done to prevent this disaster. Certainly, the degree of damage could have been drastically reduced with more prudent urban planning.
You cant blame people for wanting to go back to their homes where they grew up and their family have roots. No government department told them they had to leave in the years before the floods. Now the victims are being held out as the cause of the problem. It stinks in my mind.