Should local government be able to suspend the upcoming elections next year because with their main constituency displaced there is the distinct possibility they'll lose?
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it has nothing to do with the main constituancy being displaced.
where are they going to set up voting booths? who will they get to moniter them? where will the few million dollars come from to pay for it?
there are whole towns that still have no power, and wont for some time. the city is bankrupt. many of the parishes are facing lawsuits from broken contracts they have no way to complete. 80 percent of their lawenforcement is gone.
a few months pass, and most of us think everything is back to normal. there is still an entire city here in the United States that is decimated. just because the news switched to the next story doesnt mean the problem is gone.
the city is calling them "displaced", but the reality is, they are not comming back. and the cold reality is, the government does not want them to, neither local or federal.
the land will be parceled out to developers by the government, and the houses that will replace the ones that are gone will be SOLD, not given to the people who lost. all they have to do is make shur enough of them remain empty long enough to have them repossesed by the banks, then use government funds to rebuild, and let big bussiness make a hefty profit form them.
there is no city to vote. and wont be for some time. most of the residents are out of state contractors, not residents.
where are they going to set up voting booths? who will they get to moniter them? where will the few million dollars come from to pay for it?
there are whole towns that still have no power, and wont for some time. the city is bankrupt. many of the parishes are facing lawsuits from broken contracts they have no way to complete. 80 percent of their lawenforcement is gone.
a few months pass, and most of us think everything is back to normal. there is still an entire city here in the United States that is decimated. just because the news switched to the next story doesnt mean the problem is gone.
the city is calling them "displaced", but the reality is, they are not comming back. and the cold reality is, the government does not want them to, neither local or federal.
the land will be parceled out to developers by the government, and the houses that will replace the ones that are gone will be SOLD, not given to the people who lost. all they have to do is make shur enough of them remain empty long enough to have them repossesed by the banks, then use government funds to rebuild, and let big bussiness make a hefty profit form them.
there is no city to vote. and wont be for some time. most of the residents are out of state contractors, not residents.
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they are not comming back. and the cold reality is, the government does not want them to, neither local or federal.
I'd buy this, concidering the gov. pretty much decided to delare the area a warzone after the storm and forced everyone to leave their homes at gun point after detaining them in concentration camps.
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the land will be parceled out to developers by the government, and the houses that will replace the ones that are gone will be SOLD, not given to the people who lost. all they have to do is make shur enough of them remain empty long enough to have them repossesed by the banks, then use government funds to rebuild, and let big bussiness make a hefty profit form them.
yeah, this is brilliant
After all of the residents and LEGAL OWNERS of said land are forcibly removed after the storm, and really AFTER any danger was over, they BUY up the land, and then develope it and the SELL IT to the highest bidder, which sure as hell ain't gonna be the original residents. IT's gonna be another rich buisness.
Force people off their land so as to build your own profiteering enterprise off of it. SOund Familiar? Like American Indians??? This is the American Tradition isn't it?
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there is no city to vote. and wont be for some time. most of the residents are out of state contractors, not residents.
oh of course not, it would make too much sense to get the residents to acatually work to rebuild thier own homes. Instead we disemminate them all through out the country to get them out of the way so that the gov. can have it's own little pet project with this.
There were several housing units and shelters in N.O. that were never even touched by the storm, and yet people were stil forced to leave from their own homes. Parents seperated from children.
As far as I'm concerned this entire ordeal was the gov.'s perfect oppurtunity to get rid of all the nig[b][/b]gers and make money off of the people's hardship.
BRAVO
honestly, i dont think it has anything to do with race as much as a social-economic problem.
the republican party is all about big bussiness. they feel you build up and support the top, the top will support the bottom.
it makes perfect sence they allocated the billions of dollars earmarked for N.O. to bussiness instead of people. the thinking is get jobs in their, and the people will come. the problem is contractors are in it for the money, not charity. if they buld a house, they want to SELL the house for a profit, not give it to some poor shmuck for free for his loss.
and in order to attract bussiness to the area, they have to offer them an opertunity to be profitable.
the insurance industry passed a law excluding damage from rising water from hurricane insurance in early 2005. this left 70.....70...70 percent of the home owners in New Orleans without insurance on their loss. probably the reason you saw houses covered in water on fire. some homeowners realized it and torched the place to get their homeowners fire insurance to pay for it.
the result, because of the change in the insurance law, even teh working people there have no means to pay for anything anymore. they lost everything.
the republican solution is to foster rebuilding through giving big bussiness the money adn let people come back that can afford to support the city.
the moral delima.
over 1 million people out of jobs, homes, life savings, everything.
the moral majority,s answer to teh solution is to put them in temporary housing for a few months, then quietly let their benifits expire and boot them out on the street, while selling their losses to big bussines and giving them money to come to the area to get rich from this national tragedy.
this is what this country is displaying for the entire world.
the rich get richer on the backs of the poor, and when the rich have no more use for the poor, out on the street with entire familey,s
the moral majority working for you.
how can anyone be astonished that the rest of the world thinks of us as the great satan.
God said we are our brothers keeper.
the republican party said ***** our brothers unless they can afford to make us richer. we ARE evil. we ARE immoral. we ARE wrong. we CAN change, but will we? or will we keep turning a blind eye to the pain we are causing to our own? much less to people in other country,s.
we should be deeply ashamed. but we are too ignorant and arrogant to realize it.
hirricane katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. government gave it the kill shot while they were down.
terry shrivo recieved national attention , and congress acted within a day to push a political agenda.
hundreds of our own starved to death and died of thurst while we waited for congress to finnish passing an emergancy bill to help the oil industry protect them selves from loss before they were taken care of.
and the world was watching.
lets all prey God wasnt.
the republican party is all about big bussiness. they feel you build up and support the top, the top will support the bottom.
it makes perfect sence they allocated the billions of dollars earmarked for N.O. to bussiness instead of people. the thinking is get jobs in their, and the people will come. the problem is contractors are in it for the money, not charity. if they buld a house, they want to SELL the house for a profit, not give it to some poor shmuck for free for his loss.
and in order to attract bussiness to the area, they have to offer them an opertunity to be profitable.
the insurance industry passed a law excluding damage from rising water from hurricane insurance in early 2005. this left 70.....70...70 percent of the home owners in New Orleans without insurance on their loss. probably the reason you saw houses covered in water on fire. some homeowners realized it and torched the place to get their homeowners fire insurance to pay for it.
the result, because of the change in the insurance law, even teh working people there have no means to pay for anything anymore. they lost everything.
the republican solution is to foster rebuilding through giving big bussiness the money adn let people come back that can afford to support the city.
the moral delima.
over 1 million people out of jobs, homes, life savings, everything.
the moral majority,s answer to teh solution is to put them in temporary housing for a few months, then quietly let their benifits expire and boot them out on the street, while selling their losses to big bussines and giving them money to come to the area to get rich from this national tragedy.
this is what this country is displaying for the entire world.
the rich get richer on the backs of the poor, and when the rich have no more use for the poor, out on the street with entire familey,s
the moral majority working for you.
how can anyone be astonished that the rest of the world thinks of us as the great satan.
God said we are our brothers keeper.
the republican party said ***** our brothers unless they can afford to make us richer. we ARE evil. we ARE immoral. we ARE wrong. we CAN change, but will we? or will we keep turning a blind eye to the pain we are causing to our own? much less to people in other country,s.
we should be deeply ashamed. but we are too ignorant and arrogant to realize it.
hirricane katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. government gave it the kill shot while they were down.
terry shrivo recieved national attention , and congress acted within a day to push a political agenda.
hundreds of our own starved to death and died of thurst while we waited for congress to finnish passing an emergancy bill to help the oil industry protect them selves from loss before they were taken care of.
and the world was watching.
lets all prey God wasnt.
The bottom line is this:
This countries priorities are bent toward the benefit of corporations rather than the actual whole of the people.
and for most of our history our ecomony has been fueled by war. We are indeed a very militaristic nation whether people want to admit it or not.
That has been the problem sinse Eisenhower. After the Cold war we continied our military industrial machine.
It is who we are.
and now, you can almost hear the title of Police State breathing down our necks if the President is trying to increase his own power by shunning the rest of the governments regulations.
we certainly live in interesting times
This countries priorities are bent toward the benefit of corporations rather than the actual whole of the people.
and for most of our history our ecomony has been fueled by war. We are indeed a very militaristic nation whether people want to admit it or not.
That has been the problem sinse Eisenhower. After the Cold war we continied our military industrial machine.
It is who we are.
and now, you can almost hear the title of Police State breathing down our necks if the President is trying to increase his own power by shunning the rest of the governments regulations.
we certainly live in interesting times
we certainly live in interesting times
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absolutly.
the last four years have clearly defined us throughout the world for better or worse. mostly for worse. this addministraition is not at fault either, but just the most transparant when it comes to our motivations.
there is no profit in the moral high ground. and programs like Social Security, and Medicare and Medicade, designed to take care of our own, have been given derogatory stature by calling them "entitlements", nad we have seen great political pressure to end them in favor of creating a "for profit" system that will eventually provide the "haves" with more on the backs of the "have nots".
we have declared to the world we are not interested in being our brothers keeper....unless there is profit in doing so. that is why we let over 500,000 native africans be butchered in a genocide, yet, send an army to protect Kuwait.
New Orleans is another perfect example. the whole world watched americans dieing in the street of an american city while we debated what we "should" do, and how to make it "cost effective".
we will let our own die in the streets...unless there is profit to be made.
and now, those displaced poor from devastated New orleans? they sit in hotels across the country fighting for benifits month to month that keep them eating, while the government is dividing up THIER losses to contractors and developers to make a profit from.
this is who we are. this is who we have always been.
we would be ashamed if we could see ourselves through anothers eyes.
there are good, decent people in this country. but that will not stop them from being led into damnation by following a false prophet. by following soneone who invokes the name of God to justify doing evil. by someone answering to a "higher calling".
we do not hold the moral high ground.
and what makes this particular time in history more interesting, is having that shoved in our face, and us finding a way to justify it. having our intentions so transparant in our highest office.
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absolutly.
the last four years have clearly defined us throughout the world for better or worse. mostly for worse. this addministraition is not at fault either, but just the most transparant when it comes to our motivations.
there is no profit in the moral high ground. and programs like Social Security, and Medicare and Medicade, designed to take care of our own, have been given derogatory stature by calling them "entitlements", nad we have seen great political pressure to end them in favor of creating a "for profit" system that will eventually provide the "haves" with more on the backs of the "have nots".
we have declared to the world we are not interested in being our brothers keeper....unless there is profit in doing so. that is why we let over 500,000 native africans be butchered in a genocide, yet, send an army to protect Kuwait.
New Orleans is another perfect example. the whole world watched americans dieing in the street of an american city while we debated what we "should" do, and how to make it "cost effective".
we will let our own die in the streets...unless there is profit to be made.
and now, those displaced poor from devastated New orleans? they sit in hotels across the country fighting for benifits month to month that keep them eating, while the government is dividing up THIER losses to contractors and developers to make a profit from.
this is who we are. this is who we have always been.
we would be ashamed if we could see ourselves through anothers eyes.
there are good, decent people in this country. but that will not stop them from being led into damnation by following a false prophet. by following soneone who invokes the name of God to justify doing evil. by someone answering to a "higher calling".
we do not hold the moral high ground.
and what makes this particular time in history more interesting, is having that shoved in our face, and us finding a way to justify it. having our intentions so transparant in our highest office.
shadowrelm wrote:
There are good, decent people in this country. But that will not stop them from being led into damnation by following a false prophet. by following someone who invokes the name of God to justify doing evil. By someone answering to a "higher calling".
That sounds like somebody calling Bush the anti-Christ
Mind you, I don't disagree much, except the AC from what I've read is supposed to be popular with the vast majority of people around the world, not just Republicans and their ilk.
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