Cities burning with riots, Lousiania worst floods since Katrina....and where is our President?
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If he was a good president, he would scoop up the flood waters and use them to put out the riot fires.
Where is Kanye West to offer up his description of the President when you need him???
Clearly Obama hates black people.
These are not urban people being flooded. Seriously, no one gives a fvxk about a natural disaster unless it hits a big city? Tornado hits a town in Missouri and kills 150? It's off the news in a couple days, and no one remembers.
Katrina was much worse than this current flooding. Over a 1000 dead, and hurricanes cripple an entire region.
Katrina was much worse than this current flooding. Over a 1000 dead, and hurricanes cripple an entire region.
Statistics don't mean a hell a lot when you are evacuated from your home in the middle of the night as my niece and family experienced Sunday night. They are near Gonzales in Ascension Parish and this is far worse flooding for folks in this area than Katrina.
none of that matters. A white president didn't land his 747 within 48 hours of a major storm on a flooded out airfield. Must be racist.
Not possible. This president cares and would be there in a moments notice if it were that bad. "TEE IT UP!!"
I lived in Baton Rouge for 2 years and am familiar with the flooded area. Not good at all -them some good people down there
I am not downplaying their suffering. It is terrible. But the fact they are even getting woke up to evacuate shows the difference in this and Katrina.
They had plenty of time to get out before Katrina. i know in West Virginia a week before that it would be bad in New Orleans
"We can talk about what happened for two days in 2005 and we should. We can talk about levees that couldn't hold, a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground." - Senator Barack Obama
Speaking of Obama, he's played 300 known rounds in 7.5 years. That is an insane amount for a guy with huge responsibilities. I know people keep saying that the Presidency is mobile but it almost seems like he's a golfer with a work problem.
I used to get to play some of the best courses in SC for free (or almost free) & I think in 15 years I played no more than about 10 times a year.
Speaking of Obama, he's played 300 known rounds in 7.5 years. That is an insane amount for a guy with huge responsibilities. I know people keep saying that the Presidency is mobile but it almost seems like he's a golfer with a work problem.
I used to get to play some of the best courses in SC for free (or almost free) & I think in 15 years I played no more than about 10 times a year.
I don't know about Baton Rouge but te problem with New Orleans has little to do with a president. The city is below sea level. Swamps and low lying areas were drained to make room for expansion of the city years ago making it prone to storm surges and run off. The fate of this city was set over a hundred years ago.
I can't believe the government gave them money to rebuild another catastrophe-in-waiting.
First hurricane watch for LA was issued 2 days before landfall. The day before half the day was spent still thinking it would turn towards the FL panhandle.
I used to think those people were dummies for not evacuating, but I've changedy stance on that. It's pretty hard for the poor to pack up and go. That takes money and a decent car. Also they lived under a false sense of security from their levee and pumps system. And I've figured for myself I don't know if I would evacuate. I would have to weight my location and it's risk of flooding and wind damage. Then again I'm the kind of person that drives towards tornadoes.
Eh, we have several large cities that are a catastrophe-in-waiting. Parts of San Fransisco, very expensive parts of it, are built on fill. Seattle-Tacoma has a giant stratovolcano next door. Locals around Miami can tell you how rising sea levels are already causing problems.
I don't think we could afford to just build NOLA somewhere else. Obviously there's still a demand for a city located there.
Same thing with Hurricane Sandy. When it hits NJ or NY it is the biggest news ever.
They don't talk about Sandy screwing up the Outer Banks. Or other storms screwing things up.
Goes and hits NY and NJ and it is oh my god this is Armageddon.
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