Re: OT: Katrina -- Whom To Blame

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:31:16 -0800, James wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:35:28 GMT, Demonick
> <demonick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Ouch, James. Hoping for more destruction is bad karma. I have good
>>friends who are good people who have lost just about everything. They were
>>forces for good in a corrupt city and wisely and responsibly evacuated
>>before Katrina. I know hard working fisherman who worked out of Delacroix
>>and beyond, who's ancestral homes and towns and boats were simply erased.
>>Not a brick or stick was left standing. I have a good friend 50 miles
>>north from New Orleans who's house was hit and destroyed by a tornado
>>spawned by Katrina. Which of these dumbasses should we abandon? You
>>choose.
>
> Dom, I stated in an earlier post that I feel for the people who lost
> everything. Please understand that I do not wish them harm.
>
> I had this very long post all typed out but thought better of posting
> it publically. I will simply say that the "dumbasses" I was referring
> to were the healthy, able bodied people who chose to live in New
> Orleans.
>
> I saved my initial response. If you'd like me to email it to you,
> lemme know, and we can carry on the conversation there. Otherwise,
> please accept my apology.

Thanks. No apology necessary. I've read enough of your posts, including
others in this thread to understand your self-reliant point of view. I've
spent a lot of time in NOLA and it was one of the most heavily welfared
cities in the US and it showed. It might be interesting to continue the
conversation a bit offline. My guess is once we strip away the emotional
responses we will agree on the vast majority.

--
Demonick
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