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I'd help him, but I wouldn't buy him a new one if he could afford it himself.
What a hopelessly poor anology.
People have and are dying in the SuperDome, the place they asked people to go because of lack of supplies, surely it can not be that difficult to supply water at least?
And I have heard more than a couple of people interviewed suggesting that the government was warned that the flood defences wouldn't hold but that they did not put the needed funding in. If thats the case then they are liable for the death rate.
Yes, that is politics. Thats what makes me angry.
What? A million people crying because of a natural disaster?
The US is the richest and most powerful country in the world. They can put a man on the moon, they can organise massive military bombardments of foreign countries yet they can't get water and supplies to poor people in their own country. That makes me angry.
Yes but if they can't be arsed doing it then why shouldn't we. You all complain that America can do it, but whats stopping us doing something. We did it for the tsunami victims, why not here?
Thats a bit simplistic don't you think
I do think that the US will eventually sort things out, they are more resiliant than people give them credit for but how many countless numbers of them are going to needlessly suffer between now and then.
Nature is the "enemy within" the US government has ignored at their peril, as are we, as are many countries in the Western World.
Possibly, but there is truth in there. If this was posh Manhattan do you think the rescue effort would be so lame?
Manhatten, the place itself has far more to offer than NO, especially in terms of finance, but I don't see where race would have anything to do with the problem at all, in both circumstances.
absolutely disgusting situation.
yes blag it is very political ...yes if this was california ...the place would be having huge food bombs dropped on it ...
if the american people don't drag the bush family out of the white house now and string them up ...can i be arrested for saying that>
"THIS IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE"
They will probably get things moving now though, I expect a big reaction, but it looks like the place will never be the same,
OH and Fats Domino, has been saved so thats good do you remember him Morrocan roll 1st time round ?
And Mr Roll what Jimi song is that its from Electric Lady land isnt it, is it?
From this BBC story
Since when has the "fuck 'em" approach been yours?
Didn't hear you suggesting that the asian states should look after their own, even though some of the richest men in the world live in the region...
Hardly surprising that previous members have questioned the anti-US approach on these boards.
fact being if the federal government didn't stop their programme of gradual damage reduction by recovering old wetland through good drainage to due it being uncommercial, and actually was helping before the hurricane struck as they had a good 3 days warning, they wouldnt need to fork out 12 billion dollars of federal reserve money afterwards to clean up and help people
id give my money to the NGOs but thats it.....
How about we use the "if states had invested in a tsunami warning system" argument then? Would have sounded crass then because the people who are suffering aren't the people who made the "economic" decision.
The other problem is that if is a big word. All you can deal with now if the "now" situation - and here you have people who have lost homes.
I have one. I guess I figure it's my responsibility to help out those less fortunate that I am even if they do live in a country which has much wealth. Doesn't mean that those individuals are rich enough to cover themselves and many would not have the insurance cover either.
I agree with you NGO approach though, and talking of which has anyone seem a DEC advert about this yet?
sadly it didnt use to be an if situation the risk assesments put this as one of the major threats over the next few years and they sort of predicted a hurricane, the point is the infrastructure to deal with this was being built - however it got SLIGHTLY in the way of so called development, and thus the only people to blame are the federal governemt as the project that was cut short was cost effective and it was reasonly certain something like this would happen within 5 years
i thought films were kidding about gangs controlling resources would form, and they have..... looting food and medicine etc for themselves using stolen guns
It seems to me that the americans can easily afford to purchase whatever they need (and then some) it's not like we are talking about some backward corner of the globe with no nearby help, is it?
The knock on effect of this could easily be catastrophic though, almost all american goods go up through the big easy and the mississisipi(sp?) delta to the rest of the country, and vice versa.
Not to mention the problem with lost oil supplies, and the huge insurance bill that's now gonna be on it's way. Bearing the insurance thing in mind, all that "stolen" stuff has probably already been written off so no one is gonna be missing it.
I'm surprised at you klintock. Firstly whilst some of those affected will be able to afford to get themselves out of this hole, there will be plenty which cannot. I'd have expected you to mention that.
The other point is, does the fact that these people live in a wealthy nation mean that those individuals who are poor don't deserve our help? Are they less human, in less need than someone living in Indonesia (for example)?
Surely the fact that the individuals concerned have nothing now, no house, no job etc means that they are in no better a position than those affected by the tsunami. In fact when you consider the relative cost of living in each country, you could argue that the individuals affected are actually worse off...
jimmi ...still raining still dreaming.
five days and still huge ammounts of people without food and water!
mats greatest nation on earth showing its true colours.
this is on their own soil ...not across an ocean.
old and infirm people evacuated to a stadium ...without a roof ...just concrete and hard seats ...no water and food ...i am angrier and more upset than i can remember.
there are no excuses for this.
it maywell be a huge disaster but there is no need for the press to keep blowing out of all proportion the gun problems. the looting problems.
easy enough to bring in thousand of men with guns to shhoot to kill ...why the fuck is it so much harder to bring in relief?