LeftOfTheMiddle
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I worked in Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Alexandia, Orange, Beaumont and all the little towns in between. It was horrible for everyone involved but I am incensed when I hear the political football get thrown around on this one. Considering the scope of the storm and the magnitude of the pre-existing political, social, financial and cultural factors of the once murder capital of the USA I think people did an awesome job and the outpouring of all types of assistance was probably record breaking. To try to make some political points via biased and erroneous reporting of a primarily racial disater is disgusting.
Sorry but I don't think the government is required to go out and buy anyone a home if they lose one. Stop paying your insurance and wait for a fire to destroy your home---see what happens.
First, I acknowledge that my assumption about you was wrong. My apologies.
See, these are two problems that I have with people likeyourself:
(1) You acknowledge inequality and then toss it aside. Now you are implying that people just "stopped paying their insurance". They couldn't afford the insurance. Furthermore, we are not talking about one person who lost their home in a fire. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of Americans at one time, displaced from their homes because of a natural disaster that was not in anyone's control.
(2) The first place you go is to say that we are somehow diminishing or downplaying the amazing work that people did to help the victims of the storm. I have never done that, nor have I "used" the catastrophe that was Katrina to make some political point.
How republican of you to place blame on the poor/ those who were victims of a storm because you and the government offered them some assistance and they didn't bounce back the way you thought they should.