Badtux the Snarky Penguin

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

New Orleanians fear they've been abandoned a second time

New Orleanians are still waiting for the help that President Bush promised. Of course, you know what President Liar's promises are worth. Just ask the Iraqi people how much of Iraq has been rebuilt. But New Orleans is America, and it appears that Bush is doing to America and Americans what he did to Iraq -- ignore them, laugh at them, and relish their misery. So most of New Orleans is ruins, and nobody seems to care.

The most important promise that the Feds have not kept is to rebuild the levees. As I noted previously, the Feds haven't even repaired the current defective levee system, which could not keep a Category 2 storm surge out of the city -- it is only 10% repaired and hurricane season starts on June 1.

But even that probably will not be good enough to get business to move back to the city. To quote the article:

The federal government has not committed to the costly demand that levees, which protect the low-lying city, be rebuilt to withstand a Category 5 hurricane - the most brutal kind. The existing system was largely expected to hold against a Category 3 storm, but Katrina, a strong Category 3 with winds at 125 mph, sent water through the flood walls and into neighborhoods.

Many residents and officials say rebuilding plans won't save the city without commitments on levee reinforcement, especially as another hurricane season approaches.

"They have to worry about making the levees safe," said Merrill Rye, a 65-year-old native of the city. "Forget about the rest. We'll do without."

Right now New Orleans is a death trap. Even a small hurricane would flood the city again. Nobody is going to re-open their business in New Orleans when it'll just get flooded out again. Without levees, any other rebuilding is futile. With levees, New Orleans will get rebuilt -- with or without the help of the useless breed of parasites that pose as "our" national government. There's simply too many economic arguments for a city there in that location.

Alas, even that little bit of building levees seems to be beyond our do-nothing, know-nothing Republican government that appears good only for stealing money from us, the American people, and giving it to Republican cronies.

My proposal that the U.S. weasel out of its obligations by giving Louisiana back to France looks better every hour. Let Our People Go! Louisiana back to France! Laissez les bon temps roulez! After all, it seems that the French care more about Louisiana than our own national government does, so why stay?

- Badtux the Louisiana Penguin

Posted by: BadTux / 2/12/2006 10:10:00 AM  

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My proposal that the U.S. weasel out of its obligations by giving Louisiana back to France looks better every hour. Let Our People Go! Louisiana back to France! Laissez les bon temps roulez! After all, it seems that the French care more about Louisiana than our own national government does, so why stay?

That is a very good idea. If this country doesn't want to clean up the mess and safeguard that state, it's time to send it back to France. GW might want to sell it to France, though. Maybe France could buy it at bankrupt prices.
# posted by oldwhitelady : 12/2/06 4:07 PM  

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