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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Jun 7, 2010 12:52:16 GMT -5
Saw a funny term in a New Orleans headline for the BP execs - Gasholes. It may apply as well to certain members of Congress.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Jun 7, 2010 14:28:28 GMT -5
Or posters on this board.
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Post by Bando on Jun 7, 2010 14:44:50 GMT -5
Before the shot starts flying, why don't we all pray fiercely for a fix here? Best point made: we blame our presidents too much and keep re-electing the same jerks to Congress. This is because Congress is full of crooks and idiots, except my Congressman, who is awesome.
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Post by hoyawatcher on Jun 7, 2010 15:34:08 GMT -5
If you really want to extend this "silence" discussion go talk to someone from Nashville. I talk to several from there routinely and they are more Editeded than Louisiana about the flooding they had without anyone coming to help them. They have just gone about their business and are fixing things themselves but they know if this had been the poor sections of New Orleans instead of the middle class Nashville they would have been front and center on newscasts and national focus.
It is more than just the gulf oil spill where the response has been lacking and the silence at the problems deafening.
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Post by TC on Jun 8, 2010 11:25:24 GMT -5
If you really want to extend this "silence" discussion go talk to someone from Nashville. I talk to several from there routinely and they are more Editeded than Louisiana about the flooding they had without anyone coming to help them. They have just gone about their business and are fixing things themselves but they know if this had been the poor sections of New Orleans instead of the middle class Nashville they would have been front and center on newscasts and national focus. If people were dying in middle class Nashville neighborhoods, I'm sure it would rate national focus. That didn't happen.
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Post by hoyawatcher on Jun 8, 2010 16:25:47 GMT -5
Yep you are right. Only 30 or so folks died and it was only a little more than a Billion Dollars in property damage. No reason at all to cover it and certainly only 30 isn't sufficient to meet the "folks dying in middle class neighborhoods" threshold.
You haven't heard anything since then as Nashville simply took it on its self to fix it. Local construction companies put dumpsters out at houses and folks filled them up themselves and are now rebuilding themselves. My friends neighborhood lost 50 homes to flooding. No one from FEMA set foot in the neighborhood.
But then Obama didn't win Tennessee so I guess they shouldn't expect anything different.
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Post by TC on Jun 8, 2010 18:39:54 GMT -5
Yep you are right. Only 30 or so folks died and it was only a little more than a Billion Dollars in property damage. Okay, so it's 1/80th as expensive as Katrina and about 1/60th as deadly.
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Post by hoyawatcher on Jun 9, 2010 6:59:09 GMT -5
And got 1/1000 th the news coverage and 1/10,000 th the support from FEMA.
Sounds about right
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