New Orleans the next Atlantis???

Onefast99gsx · 09-01-2005

I don't think people are making it bigger than it is. It 'IS' big. New Orleans population is larger than Minneapolis. What if something took out Mpls? Is that not big enough to consider it a big event? I don't know, but to me, when a city that has a population over 450,000 that's pretty dam big. It's large enough of its own that even the media doesn't have to blow it out of proportion.

While watching CNN tonight, I was watching the banner below and I was proud of the other countries that vowed their support. Probably a list of 10 different countries. Among them, I was surprised to see China one of them, knowing that things are somewhat tense between the U.S. and China.

Yeah, you're right...it has taken way too long. It's been nearly 5 days now since the Hurricane started there. They do not really have a sense of plan to contain the situation. Those troops should have came in from the south the moment the Hurricane moved northward. It pisses me off that The President has no problem sending the military to another country, blow the shit out of it with missles, bombs, rockets, etc. but when it comes time to fix a situation in our own country, we don't know what to do. Hmmm.

65% of New Orleans are African Americans. A good portion of that number are victims of poverty. These people couldn't get out if they wanted to. Many didn't have vehicles to relocate themselves. This Hurricane hit Florida at a category 1 I think last Friday. Later Sunday it was upgraded to a category 5 when it was heading for the Gulf. That's not a whole lot of time to evacute more than a million people.

If government wants to do something, they can start with with making jobs for the victims of poverty and create better lifestyles for the low income. Our government allowed this to happen. We have over a 600 BILLION dollar trade deficit with China! How many hurricanes does it take to = 600B ? Yeah our American government is some of the hardest working people you'll ever find. Do favors for the people of other countries while some of our own people have to live like this.