let new orleans sink
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- pavlovs_dog0
" This fema guy is an ass... "
i dont belive he has any prior disaster experience... if you believe the bush 2 admin would appoint someone like that.
- WinnebagoSeff0
i hear he was a lawyer for fema prior to this backpeddle
goodness
- prodigalslacker0
listen, i apologize for the people who hold this city near and dear to their hearts. but, yes, living in portland, the same could happen here. and while i would hate to see such an amazing city go, if a tsunami or something came along, i'd just go elsewhere.
there is so much to see in the world, and holding on to a city planning mistake is just that-a mistake.
it's not "sims city", it's thinking progressively and towards a future for once instead of never being able to let go of the past.
- pavlovs_dog0
damn, this fema cat is on nightline and ted kopel basically just tore him a new asshole...
- monkeyshine0
thank you, Ted! I still can't believe this guy would basically blame the victims. Who are these crazy farkers in charge? oy
- prodigalslacker0
that link to the whitehouse stuff with bush eating cake and celebrating and all that is disgusting.
american citizens were dying and he should have been meeting with everyone he possibly could about solutions.
not eating fucking cake for a photo op.
- pavlovs_dog0
"i dont think anyone anticiapted the breech of the levys"
g.w.b on good moring america.
levys failing was all i fucking heard about in the 48hrs leading up to this.
rember he doesnt read newspapers! what an aggorant prick.
i used to think all the "worst president ever" people were partisan jackass. now it may be fact.
he's fucking incompetent.
- monkeyshine0
omg...just listening to Koppel's interview with the FEMA ass and he actually said they didn't know about the people in the coliseum before today. :o
"we had people prepositioned to move in immediately" OH REALLY?! OMG this makes me nuts.
- skelly0
You have to be stupid or nuts to want to have a job in washington. Anyone competent enough to do the job is smart enough to stay the hell out of politics. That's why everyone's incompetent.
The incompetence is unbearably apparent during tragedies.
- monkeyshine0
this level of incompetence should be impeachable. I can't believe the stupidity I just witnessed from this FEMA guy. He's dumber than Bush.
- skelly0
You fail upwards in Washington.
- superbaka0
"i dont think anyone anticiapted the breech of the levys"
g.w.b on good moring america.
---what a stupid prick. one year ago, the city engineers did simulations that predicted this exact outcome of a hurricane of this size. for a few hundred million, a plan was propsed to stop this from happening. the money was instead spent on the war. now we are going to spend billions to fix everything.
- Visia0
I'm really glad somebody posted New Orleans Is Sinkin'.
Man cuz I don't wanna swim.
- prodigalslacker0
bush is about to get a huge ratings drop when the press starts publishing the fact that the funding cuts to new orleans to pay for the war (44% this year alone) were going to:
- increase drainage in poor neighborhoods
- increase the ability to react to a cateogry 3 or 4 hurricaneand due to the cuts:
- the funding needed to prepare for a category 5 was indefinetly shelved.awesome.
- dbloc0
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/bre…
House Speaker: Rebuilding N.O. doesn't make sense
Thursday, 2:55 p.m.By Bill Walsh
Washington bureauWASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city.
"It doesn't make sense to me," Hastert told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago in editions published today. "And it's a question that certainly we should ask."
Hastert's comments came as Congress cut short its summer recess and raced back to Washington to take up an emergency aid package expected to be $10 billion or more. Details of the legislation are still emerging, but it is expected to target critical items such as buses to evacuate the city, reinforcing existing flood protection and providing food and shelter for a growing population of refugees.
The Illinois Republican’s comments drew an immediate rebuke from Louisiana officials.
“That’s like saying we should shut down Los Angeles because it’s built in an earthquake zone,” former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said. “Or like saying that after the Great Chicago fire of 1871, the U.S. government should have just abandoned the city.”
Hastert said that he supports an emergency bailout, but raised questions about a long-term rebuilding effort. As the most powerful voice in the Republican-controlled House, Hastert is in a position to block any legislation that he opposes.
"We help replace, we help relieve disaster," Hastert said. "But I think federal insurance and everything that goes along with it... we ought to take a second look at that."
The speaker’s comments were in stark contrast to those delivered by President Bush during an appearance this morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“I want the people of New Orleans to know that after rescuing them and stabilizing the situation, there will be plans in place to help this great city get back on its feet,” Bush said. “There is no doubt in my mind that New Orleans is going to rise up again as a great city.”
Insurance industry executives estimated that claims from the storm could range up to $19 billion. Rebuilding the city, which is more than 80 percent submerged, could cost tens of billions of dollars more, experts projected.
Hastert questioned the wisdom of rebuilding a city below sea level that will continue to be in the path of powerful hurricanes.
"You know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake issures and they rebuild, too. Stubbornness," he said.
Hastert wasn't the only one questioning the rebuilding of New Orleans. The Waterbury, Conn., Republican-American newspaper wrote an editorial Wednesday entitled, "Is New Orleans worth reclaiming?"
"Americans' hearts go out to the people in Katrina's path," it said. "But if the people of New Orleans and other low-lying areas insist on living in harm's way, they ought to accept responsibility for what happens to them and their property."
- todelete__20
he played with fire and got burnt. moral of the story is?!?.... don't be a dick.
wait. i think i got two morals mixed up in there.
- prodigalslacker0
dbloc thanks for sharing that. i agree that chicago, la, san fran... they all rebuilt. but they were major economic powers in the list of cities in the united states. new orleans is relatively poor and it's going to eat up what little money the state has, plus a ton of federal money that, also, we don't have. yes, it's just money, but you're rebuilding a city that - when faced with catastrophe - people are acting like modern pirates with guns. you didn't see this after 9/11... so i don't think it's an issue with humanity. it looks more and more like a warzone down there every day from the various news reports.
oh and for everyone needing more reason to hate the president, http://www.boingboing.net/2005/0…
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let new orleans sink
alright, is it just me, or does just letting the city die seem like a good idea?spend a few grand, get everyone out. spend the $10 billion currently being approved by the house (and any money generated by public support) and build a newer, better city. trying to rebuild nola is pointless; half the city was a complete shithole to begin with.
really; build a city with the best public transportation, the best schools, the most energy efficiency (maybe some of those nifty wind power generators?). if the usa actually tries to rebuild new orleans, this could just happen again next year.
or am i just totally wrong on this?
prodigalslacker
(Sep 1 05, 16:52)It'd probably take a bit of foresight and the Bush admin DOES NOT have it.
I read somewjere that Bush cut the New Orleans sea defence budget a while ago?
Reap what you sow...
- piperboytoy0
Maybe they can rebuild houses on metal stilts, like the wooden ones they have in Thailand. I think architects have failed new orleans.
Honestly every year there is a huge hurricane disaster in florida or places in the south, you'd think they'd learn how to build hurricane resistant houses by now. Or at least not build them out of straw!