It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans. "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed," the Illinois Republican said in an interview Wednesday with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois. - from here.
Once again, fuck you, dude. Now is NOT the time to say such things. Its insensitive and inflammitory. The focus should be on saving the people who are there. Charlotte and Chicago burned, San Fran and LA shook to dust and we rebuilt. New York had fcking planes smashed into it. Yes, the devastation in New Orleans is worse but now is NOT the time to make any sort of remarks or even be assessing it as an option. Figure out ho to get the living out of there! Then count the dead, the figure out how or if to rebuild!
Can you imagine someone saying we shouldn't rebuild the Twin Towers after 9/11? New Orleans is the same sort of figurehead for this disaster. You don't take potshots at it in the midst of it. Get your lazy ass back to congress and help these people.
I really, really hope people remember what our government is doing in response to this distaster. (An overwhelming nothing.) On all sides of the political spectrum, there is no support of these people, only reproach and condemnation. I think the lot of them - repulican and democrat, liberal and conservative, should be put in jail. Where is FEMA? Where is the National Guard? Police officers have stopped showing up to work, losing over 20% of the force in some parishes! What is the 10.5 billion dollar aid pakage going to do? Nothing until we help get people out of the city! It's going into Friday, for fuck's sake! Where is our government?
I cannot believe this.
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