LED ZEPPELIN LYRICS "When The Levee Breaks" If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break, [X2] When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay. Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, [X2] Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well. Don't it make you feel bad When you're tryin' to find your way home, You don't know which way to go? If you're goin' down South They go no work to do, If you don't know about Chicago. Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. All last night sat on the levee and moaned, [X2] Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home. Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you... Going down... going down now... going down.... ...
Unfortunately, this isn't just Bush. The government has, and will continue, to prove itself incapable and incompetant in its sole 'legitimizing' feature, to protect its citizens. If you haven't noticed, most of the beneficial work has been done by private organizations, the Red Cross, bus companies, ect....and not FEMA or the National Guard. This is no surprise, and is only further testament not only to the fact that the government has no real incentive to do its job well (under the illusion of a choice in the democratic process), but it largely doesn't have your interest in priority at all. Big surprise, eh?
New Orleans is sinking, it is even more of dissaster than you may know. I think we should just abandon it. We have to actively pump water out of it on a regular basis to keep it from sinking even before Katrina hit, and the water isn't going down by its self. and you know, all of this horribly horribly poluted water is just going right into the gulf. it is a wasteland and its completely toxic down there. the people just need to get out and stay out. Their homes are gone, thier lands are gone, its all gone. get out now before we spend an estimated 10 BILLON dollars on it. Thats just my opinion.
The thing is, I don't feel sorry for certain people. I don't feel sorry for the people who knew the hurricane was coming, but chose to ignore it and now they've lost everything. I feel sorry for the people who were visiting, and the people who were trying to leave, but couldn't.
its every man for himself over there. with police have the right to shoot to kill. it wouldnt happened if THEY HAD SES !!
The thing about New Orleans is that it was just asking to be flooded by a hurricane. It's below sea level, therefore the city acts like a bowl. If the levee's broke, which one (or more I dont know) broke and it flooded the city, which they had to have known would happen sometime. People who live in New Orleans should have expected a natural disaster there sometime...but everyone thinks it'll never happen to them. I'm not trying to sound unsympathetic, trust me. My girlfriend has family in New Orleans, but they got out a few days before the Hurricane hit. She also has family in Mississippi which got hit pretty bad as well. I just think that living in New Orleans was basically asking to be involved in this. Anyway. I hope they can continue to save more and more people.
the investments in levees has been underfounded, the very much needed repairs to the levees were not done. new orleans wasn't asking for it, its not a well to do predominantly white city for the big boys in gov to care enough to put money to prevent situation like that.
So you're pretty much saying that it's New Orlean's fault because it exists? Maybe if they didn't exist, it wouldn't happen next time.
Friend, what you just described is the first failure of the government, largely the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Somehow....they had the lack of insight/foresight to firstly, build levee's high enough, secondly, strong enough, so sustain what isn't a rare event in the Gulf coast. Yet, their sole legitimizing aspect is the protection of our lives and property. They've proved over and over in this situation that they don't have the average person's interest in mind.
So you're pretty much saying that it's New Orlean's fault because it exists? Maybe if they didn't exist, it wouldn't happen next time. [/b][/quote] there are countless places in the world where natural disaster could occur. New Orleans just got hit real bad, its no ones fault.