It's been two years since Katrina hit New Orleans (and according to the news, only New Orleans despite the fact that the storm spanned many states.) So with all the memorial services and what not going on, I can't decide whether I should be sad for the people there or look down on them.
Sad because the storm devastated the area. Or look down on them for not being able to rebuild.
I've written on this subject before: all the crap going on down there, how the local governments (controlled by the Democrat political machine) is proof that big government doesn't work and gotten tons of hate mail from Liberal Democrats telling me off. According to them, the real problem with NOLA isn't the people who live down there, it's the conservatives living in other states and places.
Why did NOLA flood? Because Bush hates black people and wants to watch them suffer. It's because the American people are greedy and won't pay their taxes. It's because too much money is going to Iraq. And so on and so forth.
Okay - at first I'd take your poison barbs laying down because you were grieving. After six months, I still tolerated it. After a year I started to think it was wearing thin. After two years, I'm out of sympathy.
They want to tell me that Iraq is a quagmire? NOLA is in the boundaries of the United States and yet we can't control the flood of illegal aliens going in and out of the place. We can't rebuild it thanks to excessive red tape put in to place by liberal Democrats trying to prevent Haliburton from making any money. NOLA is still run by the same bunch of incompetents who were there before Katrina hit...most of these people have been re-elected since that time.
The Mayor Ray "SchoolBus" Nagin refused to evacuate the city and despite his speech about "rechocolating" the city, Bush is still seen as the racist.
How much money has been lost to corruption down there? Nine months after the hurricane the LA Times did an exclusive about the (if I remember it correctly) Billion dollars of federal money lost down there. I can't help but wonder which place has cost (percentagewise) the American Taxpayer more money: Iraq or NOLA?
And that's just Federal money. I can't help but wonder were all the private donations went.
Despite the US military patrolling the streets, the crime rates of New Orleans are still high. Especially violent crimes. You have a better chance of being killed in New Orleans right now than by a bomb in Bagdad.
So when are we going to pull out of NOLA? The place is obviously in fallen in to a civil war against the government of the United States. A war that all crime studies in the area show we can't win. So why bother?
And to all the big libs (and people who have voted conservative republican up till Katrina hit) who are going to write me and tell me off: F**k Off. Why is it *my* fault that NOLA is a trash hole? I don't even live there. When are you going to take some responsibility for what's going on down there? I'm out of sympathy for you.
Jeremy Meister graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Media Production from Missouri State University at Springfield in 2005. He is also a film director, producer and author of over seven feature length screenplays including 'Hollow Dogs' and 'Epic: the Flames of Summer', as well as owning his own film company LWC Productions. Jeremy is the former host and producer of the Conservative internet radio program "The Tzimisce Show". Presently he is a producer for Hansen and Cokin, Last Man Standing, The Clubhouse, Showerless and Mr. Sunshine as well The Las Vegas 51's baseball games at Lotus Broadcasting (AM 1460 and AM 920 - check out the streams at LVRocks.com). Contact him at LWC_Productions@hotmail.com or at www.myspace.com/tzimiscechi or at www.dndorks.com or at TownHall.com. Art for the People:dndorks.com/forums/thread/790122.aspx
