New Orleans and its billions...

Discussion in 'Politics' started by countezero, Aug 30, 2007.

  1. countezero Registered Senior Member

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  3. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    More than $400,000 per person? I doubt that. This isn't an example of liberalism failing, it's an example of Bush failing to provide the help residents need due to a failed free market philosophy. The money probably went to well-connected contractors who sub-contracted everything, the majority of it going out of state as pure profit.

    That's what Bush wanted for Iraq, and it's also why Iraq is such a failure. This trickle-down BS has NEVER worked.
     
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  5. Baron Max Registered Senior Member

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    I wonder how much money will go for the flood victims in the midwest? Lots more damage in the midwest, and over a much larger area. Whole towns are wiped out, homes and businesses destroyed, etc., etc.

    Think they'll get the same kind of help that was/is given to the people of New Orleans? Hmm, I doubt it very, very much. Wanna' know why? Think about it some ...think about the people in those two areas ...what's the biggest, most outstanding difference?

    Baron Max
     
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  7. Willy Banned Banned

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    Looks like the looting is still going on.
     
  8. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    yeah those black people are lootin fried chicken and waffles.

    peace.
     
  9. desi Valued Senior Member

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    They might be taking food stamps and medicaid but they're not getting the big payoffs.
     
  10. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Spending it all on lotto tickets and fly rims... these simple people cannot grasp the importance of rebuilding their homes, their inferior negroid brains can hardly look beyond the immediate future. Let them put together wooden rafts and live and fish on the Mississippi River, it would suit the indolent habits of their sub-species.
     
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  11. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    When hurricane Andrew hit florida and destroyed the whole city if Homestead the Feds came in with over 25 billion to help out. Over half of the people sold their homes or property, got insurance, if they had insurance, for the goods inside as well as the dwelling then sold the property and left town . The real estate people bought up all of those broken down homes and was given funds by the Feds to repair them then the real estate people sold them at a very hefty profit. Nice way to make a living. Also those that stayed got something from the Feds also to help them as well even without insurance but they didn't get anything like the real estate people did. Then most of the insurance companies left the state because they said they went bankrupt.

    Here in Florida back then at least all the insurance companies had to have cash on hand was 10 percent of what they had coming in. All of their monies were invested in other types of properties and land so that they couldn't be touched for they were known as "investment incomes" which by Florida law couldn't be used to defray the costs. Again nice work if you can own an insurance company, and there were 100's of them.
     
  12. Buffalo Roam Registered Senior Member

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    Do the research, do the math, the numbers will astound you, then check out the graft and kick backs that are part and parcel of Louisiana Politics, it been a democratic fiefdom for over a 100 years.
     
  13. superstring01 Moderator

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    How about we just accept the fact that nature always prevails, and that people who do nothing with their life, inevitably, get in trouble. Why is it always the government's job to fix what nature corrects and what people screw up in their own life?

    ~String
     
  14. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    what pisses me off is Insurance companies that don't pay out.
     
  15. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    you relize of late the deep south witch lousiana is shifting toward the republican party. going with the party that better defends rich white racists
     
  16. Willy Banned Banned

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    Reminds me of all the billions that are poured into Africa,

    same results too.
     
  17. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    Government accountability, corporate accountability, socialism. There's corruption in the Midwest, more than should be, but if the contracting fraud and insurance fraud that was pulled in Mississippi and Louisiana over Katrina had been pulled in the Red River Valley in '97 and '98, some asses would still be in jail.

    Mississippi and Louisiana are low-tax, business-friendly states, where the burden of government on the hard-working corporate executive is small, and the citizenry is not fleeced to support wasteful, liberal, public schooling and public infrastructure.

    How's Trent Lott's home coming along, anyone know? I recall W making a special point of having the feds help out, there.
     
  18. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    You mean like they should stop funding AIDS research.
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    You forgot cancer.
     
  20. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    I was trying to make it personal.
     
  21. superstring01 Moderator

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    I'm okay with that. The government isn't really funding the search for cures... they are funding treatments which inevitably prolong diseases, but keep the patient hooked on pharmaceuticals for the remainder of the patient's life so as to make companies as much cash as possible.

    What I'm even MORE okay with is notion that it isn't always the government's job to solve every ill of society. How about paying most of those people to relocate OUTSIDE of a city that will be gone in a century? What's odd is that most of those obsessed with respecting nature are on the left, and they all seem to be silent now with regards to the fact that the oceans aren't done rising and that New Orleans is living on land that mother nature seems destined to destroy and inundate. Moreover, the Mississippi changes course ever Milena or so and it's about at the point where it will shift to a shorter course to the Gulf. Why are we fighting that? The city is doomed and we're all scrambling like the fate of the world rests in New Orleans's salvation. Let it go. Move the people out. Bid it adieu and keep the fond memories.

    ~Sting
     
  22. Baron Max Registered Senior Member

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    Hear! Hear!

    Baron Max
     
  23. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Oh, excellent! Let's also not fund hospitals. Since hospitals basically just serve as a way to fund doctors and the pharmaceutical industry.

    Yes it is. That is what a government is. An organization with the purpose to govern the ills of society. Otherwise you would just have individuals and their little islands.

    The word society is a giveaway in this respect. A society is a bunch of people heaped together with common goals. Goals that are represented by the government in whatever form they might manifest themselves, and the sole purpose of the government is to guide society to prevent ills or to solve ills.

    It's not the governments job to solve every singly one of your personal ills. However, the ills of society are fair game for a government. And certainly AIDS is presenting the society at large with problems that cannot be solved on the individual level.

    tres simple n'est pas!
     

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