Government , an extension of ourselves.

fedup2006 · 08-28-2006, 11:08 AM

Like Mayor Marion Barry of Washington DC Mayor Nagin was reelected after failed leadership . Barry was taped smoking crack cocaine, Nagin had control over empty idle school buses. The difference, Barry did some good things for DC, Nagin only allowed corruption to flourish and money for the levees went to build bridges for the casinos, that why Bush cut funding.
If anyone else would've made the comment he had about the WTC their heads would've been offed, of course not a black mayor from a devastated city in the south.
The real responsibility lies with Nagin and what does the people do , they reelect him, leading one to believe our governments is only an extension of our own mentality. Blame someone else ( Bush or God ) but dare to take the blame of one's own pathetic actions, a true leader ( unlike the Nagin ) would've stepped up and rallied his citizens to organize due to the impending hurricane . Nagin was awol and how about the comment to the Coast Guard Admiral ( because he was white ? ), The Superdome chaos ?
Nagin has never been held to task for his shortcomings and failures, let's blame Bush, it's all about sound bites and color and this guy has been enabled to strut and not held accountable.
Who would build anything 7' below sea level ? Hurricanes are part of mother nature and might never be solved, building bridges to casinos with money for the levees is not Bush's fault. What sank NO is corruption , the mayor and the governor !

Inkslinger · 08-28-2006, 01:54 PM

Nagin had nothing to do with the buiding of New Orleans or had nothing to do with the fact that the federal government cut the funding in the past to rebuild the levees. You failed to mention Bush was re-elected (right) after his 1st term as a failure! ~inky

David Duke · 08-28-2006, 02:30 PM

New Orleans is vital to the nation 7ft below sea level or not. It was built in the 1700s as a hub of commerce and trade on the Mississippi River as well as a protector to keep foriegn invaders out ( Battle of New Orleans under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812 against the British). It is still today a Strategic vital artery to the nation and will continue to be. Oil and Gas, Seafood and Goods from all over the World go through it.We do feed the nation seafood down here and provide the fuel for the nation. The reason the money was not disbersed in the past was because the New Orleans Levee board in the Big Easy used the money for themselves building Golf Courses and Hunting Leases and Hunting Camps and other things and they opposed levee board consolidation from all boards across the southern part of the state into one entity. Bush did slash millions of dollars of funding to strengthen the levees and restore coastal restoration the last time around before the storm hit. Nagan had nothing to do with the levees. Most of the problems came during the administrations of Moon Landrieu, Sidney Bartholemy and Marc Morial. It is indeed a definite unique place of our great nation to live, work and raise families in the extreme deep south of Louisiana. David Duke

questionmark · 08-28-2006, 03:55 PM

What sank NO is corruption? Well that's old news.

Freedom for All · 08-28-2006, 04:05 PM

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Levee Upgrade[/b]

Until the day before Katrina's arrival, New Orleans's 350 miles (560 kilometers) of levees were undergoing a feasibility study to examine the possibility of upgrading them to withstand a Category Four or Five storm.
Corps officials say the study, which began in 2000, will take several years to complete.
Upgrading the system would take as long as 20 to 25 years, according to Al Naomi, the Corps' senior project manager for the New Orleans District.
Martin McCann, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Stanford University in California, warns that long-term planning may not account for changes to the risk equation.
"As further development goes on behind levees, over decades you need to revisit the question and say, Are those levees providing us the protection that we wanted?" he said. "The answer is probably no, because the exposure is probably greater. The number of people and the [amount of] valuable property [behind the levees] is greater."

It's hardly fair to say "Bush did slash millions of dollars of funding to strengthen the levees and restore coastal restoration the last time around before the storm hit", when an ongoing study into what actually needed to be done was still several years from completion when the big blow struck.

And that's not even considering that the State of Loseranna should have been paying for those levees, not the federal government.

questionmark · 08-28-2006, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Freedom for All

And that's not even considering that the State of Loseranna should have been paying for those levees, not the federal government.
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Oh please oh wise one, tell us more about an issue you apparently know very little about. You have ALL the answers, but they're not right by a long shot. Why don't you stick to things you know because you apparently know very little about the levee situation and all other aspects of New Orleans.

Inkslinger · 08-28-2006, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by questionmark

Oh please oh wise one, tell us more about an issue you apparently know very little about. You have ALL the answers, but they're not right by a long shot. Why don't you stick to things you know because you apparently know very little about the levee situation and all other aspects of New Orleans.

And why don't you quit jumping on everyone's opinions like God died and left you in charge...

questionmark · 08-28-2006, 04:39 PM

so the state should pay for the levees? that's a federal operation. where am I wrong?

David Duke · 08-28-2006, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Inkslinger

And why don't you quit jumping on everyone's opinions like God died and left you in charge...

Well for one thing Ink, we are from Louisiana and this bozo from California is insulting our great prideful patriotic state and is basing his thinking on one professors hypothetical assumption and one guy who is no longer there who represented the district. The 300 plus miles of levees have been refurbished to pre katrina status in less than a year and this projection of 20 yrs to go a few more feet to cat 5 is bogus. I am ther all the time and know what is going on. You outsiders thought process are flawed as well as You have not experienced living in the great State of Louisiana. I bet Freedom for All would shit as well as you if we shut the oil production and our refineries down for a indefinite period as well as stop the supply of goods and raw materials and seafood to the rest of the country from that one city of thousands thru out the nation. See where your bank accounts would go then. I bet south , like going deep south to Louisiana. Oh and the statement that we are from Looserana.I beg to differ. If we are loosers then why does the state and its domiciled companies control the energy supply and imported goods, grain, commerce and seafood to the nation? It is because we Great Louisianans know what type of businesses are Profitable and Powerful. That is being Winners in my book.