BTW, Nagin is simply racist.
If a white politician came out and said, "this is going to be a WHITE city..."....he would be labeled as a racist KKK member. What makes Nagin any different?
BTW, Nagin is simply racist.
If a white politician came out and said, "this is going to be a WHITE city..."....he would be labeled as a racist KKK member. What makes Nagin any different?
Fuck Nagin ..
Nagin is a piece of shit....
a dumb piece of shit at that...
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Sorry but as dumb as Nagin is in general he has a point - it's a disgrace that after 5 years the people that died at Ground Zero have nothing to honor them other than a hole in the ground while a bunch of greedy bastards squabble over what to do with the site. Snobby NYC reporters should check their own backyards before going to New Orleans to seek out things to criticize, LIRLOriginally Posted by Hulud
the mayor of new orleans
when asked why the city hasnt been cleaned up since katrina he said and i quote "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed....."
For the record I lived through hurricane Andrew and it took more than a year to clean up parts of Homestead and Florida City and it took 10 years until things started to look somewhat normal again.. new trees that were planted weren't taken out of braces for years for example, and new neighborhoods took a long time until they looked lived in. And Andrew was nothing next to Katrina in terms of devastation.
You gotta be dumb as fuck to buy a house below sea level though. . . .oh wait...yeah dumb...
I usually agree with you, but not this time bud.
If you watch the interview, the interviewer asked Mayor Nagin why THIS section of NO wasn't cleaned up yet after a year (a section if I'm not mistaken right in the middle of town) NOT the ENTIRE NO region. He came back with the smart ass remark of "NY hasn't cleaned up the big hole yet...".
It was an asenine remark. He answered a question with a question.
FEMA by LAW can only come into a situation AFTER the LOCAL GOV'T requests their help. It is a well known fact that right after the hurricane came thru FEMA ASKED both the Gov and the Mayor and BOTH declined at first......why? Who the hell knows. Now they are trying to shift the blame of what was THEIR responsability to begin with onto FEMA'S and Bush's shoulders rather than admitting they screwed up majorly themselves to begin with. THAT my friend IS the point the media will not focus on because it doesn't sell as good as carnage and finger pointing. Should we bring up the 1000 school buses left sitting there while people drowned? Should we bring up WHERE Mr. Nagin was after the storm (he took up residence in a luxury suite at a hotel to "survey" the damage)??? LOCAL GOVT screwed the pooch on that one wayyyyy before the feds ever got a chance to. Why is that little tid bit being swept under the rug?
Go back and read WHERE those funds were DIVERTED to......by Blanco......to her special interests LOCALLY.......Again, why is that not being blown all up? Hmmmm, because blaming Bush for "blowing up the leviees and purposely drowning poor black people" sells more papers.
The U.S. Corp of Engineers had told for YEARS about the leviees not withstanding a Cat 4, let alone a Cat 5 hurricane. Go back and see WHEN KATRINA was classified a Cat 4......then a Cat 5.......WHERE was Nagin and Blanco then?????
There is plenty of blame to go around. There is plenty of evidence that points directly at WHO is to blame and WHO had plenty of time to avoid a major catastrophe like this, but it's about politics now. Democrats will blame everyone but themselves. It's that simple.
It's like blaming Bush for not getting your couch out in time when your house was foreclosed on. That doesn't happen from one day to the next, does it? Of course not. You get notices. You get registered mail. You get phone calls. You get all kinds of chances to fix it or get out. Finally a sheriff shows up and all of a sudden you're gonna complain that you didn't have time to save your favorite couch????? Who's fault is that? The gov't or you?
That's actually the truly sad part. People that had insurance and now the insurance refuses to pay. THAT is a shame. They are truly victims. Insurance companies are low.
I'm sorry about your family. Hope they get back to normalsy soon.
i can agree with that.. but still u have to atleast say that the blame is spread all aroudn from no themselves and even to the governmen, but politics have twisted it all up like u said.. the whole situation was just bad bad bad and could havebeen dealt with better.
nagin has no room to speak because alot of the death and people getting hurt was a result of his failure to act along with the governor of LA...and nagin does not have time on his side cas 3 weeks from now another bigass storm might be coming his way...
with NYC there really isnt much ungency because it isnt like someone is going to fly another plane into some towers that arent there...they have time on their side to make sure that is done correctly...and there are not any more people's lives at risk because of people taking their time...
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true enough, i don't know why anyone would live in new orleans unless they were born there and were too poor to move away. it was a shithole before katrina ever showed up
theres plenty of areas below sea level, NO is just in a big ass bowl surrounded by water on both sides.. thats what makes it so bad.
but the problem here is that the shithole that you are refering to were people's homes and places of work...of course some people are going to want to rebuild what they had before...and there is quite abit of history in that shit hole...
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true, ppl form NO will tell u is a shit hole, but they love their home.
I just think it is horrible that like 10 yrs ago they could have built a levy system that could have held for the most part and didnt want to spend the money to protect the people that lived there...
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true, and even the new levys that theya re putting up they are sayign that they wont be any better than the previous ones, and the new state of the art pumps they put up also arent even working prperly, they tested them and the pumps started shaking so bad they had to cut them off. And the flood gates they have to put up. will still put the city 5feet under water, due to the fucked up pumping system. shits all fucked up...
This is sad because of all the people's homes that are down in that area and not to mention a very big part of US history to...and people you cant put a price tag on that...
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so voting and agreeing on a certain tribute is wrong because it takes time?
last i checked they had voted on it a couple years ago but no one really liked the designs, so you cant jsut go and make a design overnite
what most of you are not understading, is its not about it being rebuilt, its about cleaning PUBLIC property. like the buildings off the streets and the flooded cars.For the record I lived through hurricane Andrew and it took more than a year to clean up parts of Homestead and Florida City and it took 10 years until things started to look somewhat normal again.. new trees that were planted weren't taken out of braces for years for example, and new neighborhoods took a long time until they looked lived in. And Andrew was nothing next to Katrina in terms of devastation.
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