Comments on: Blanco’s Re-Election Strategy: “The Blame Game” http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/ in all matter of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:05:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Those Who Ignore History are Destined to Repeat It | Right Voices http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-727894 Those Who Ignore History are Destined to Repeat It | Right Voices Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:40:29 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-727894 [...] Gulf Coast aid unspent Katrina Victims Hit Feds With 489,000 Claims Including 1 for $3 Quadrillion Blanco's Re-Election Strategy: "The Blame Game"Feds Say FEMA Continues to Waste Millions of Dollars in Disaster Aid Ray Nagin Blames Racism, Red [...] [...] Gulf Coast aid unspent Katrina Victims Hit Feds With 489,000 Claims Including 1 for $3 Quadrillion Blanco’s Re-Election Strategy: “The Blame Game”Feds Say FEMA Continues to Waste Millions of Dollars in Disaster Aid Ray Nagin Blames Racism, Red [...]

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]]> By: dian silva http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-408502 dian silva Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:25:33 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-408502 The city of New orleans was not destroyed by Hurricanie Katrina. The last hurricane that hit our city was 1965. 40 YEARS AGO! Hurricanidne Betsy. After the glancing blow by Katrina people were picking up leaves and inspecting roof damage. ............OUR CITY WAS DESTROYED BY A DESIGN DEFECT!!!!!!!!! The Corps of Eengineers took responsibility for the destruction on the City of New Orleans on June 6,2006. The Corps of Engineers which is funded by congress and is part of the U.S. gov. The corps knew what would happen to New Olreans in 1986 from the corps own research! The steel which were inserted into the levees to protect the city from a hundred year storm was too short. only 11 1/2 feet long. The steel was inserted into peat moss and sand. It was the cheapest and easiest way to build. The canals that have been there since 1858. The walls fell over like dominoes. The corps of engineers promised New Orleans protection. They told us we had the state of the art hurricane protection. They gave us death and destruction! Rotterdam in 23 feet below sea level. It is the biggest port in the world. In 1953 the North Sea rose up and killed 2000 people. This small country,Holland, made a national program to REUILD that port city and protect it from a THOUSAND YEAR FLOOD. It's taken 30 years. Kobe Japan was destroyed by earthquake. Japan has rebuilt its port to protect it and it is almost earh quake proff. New Orleans is the second lagest port in the U.S. It is the fourth largest port in the World. 14,000 miles of inland waterways flows into the Mississippi river. 80% of the grain from the midwest moves down the Missisisppi river to New Orleans for export! For every barge on the river think 66 semi-trucks and trailers off of the highways of America. New Orleans imports steel, wood, coffee, sugar. Dominoe's Sugar refinery is the biggest in the world. Our coast line has been destroyed for oil and gas exploration. Alaska has 4,300 miles of pipe line. We have 68,000 miles of pipe line running through our coast We supply 30% of the crude oil used in America and we give 20% of the natural gas. We have 17 refineries on the Mississippi river that processes 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day at each refinery! Off of lake charles we have the loop. Tankers off load oil and then it's transported to the refineries. I hope those of you who think too much money is being spent on La. like tuna from China. Louisiana supplies 30% of the seafood eaten in America. We have 3 of the top 11 sea food docks in America. America spent over 100,000 BILLION dollars in todays money to rebuild Germany after world war 2. The people of New orleans are not from a foreign country that hates America. We are not refugees. We are Americans who have had our lives destroyed by an arm of the Federal Government..not terrorist! The Federal Government must rebuld and repair the damage they have caused us.There are over 126 projects under the supervision of the Corps of Engineers that are defective in 30 different states. If the U.S.Gov. turns it's back on New Orleans. What about Sacromento,Ca., Little Rock Ark.,Gilborro, New York, DesMoines,Ia. What about your home town, your home, your life! How would you feel if a design defect killed your family. This city has turned into a place filled with the deaths of our ederly, suicides from doctors to lawyers to dentistand now our very young! NEVER.. EVER.. FORGET ..A DESIGN DEFECT IS STILL KILLING THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS! The city of New orleans was not destroyed by Hurricanie Katrina. The last hurricane that hit our city was 1965. 40 YEARS AGO! Hurricanidne Betsy. After the glancing blow by Katrina people were picking up leaves and inspecting roof damage.
…………OUR CITY WAS DESTROYED BY A DESIGN DEFECT!!!!!!!!!
The Corps of Eengineers took responsibility for the destruction on the City of New Orleans on June 6,2006. The Corps of Engineers which is funded by congress and is part of the U.S. gov. The corps knew what would happen to New Olreans in 1986 from the corps own research!
The steel which were inserted into the levees to protect the city from a hundred year storm was too short. only 11 1/2 feet long. The steel was inserted into peat moss and sand. It was the cheapest and easiest way to build. The canals that have been there since 1858. The walls fell over like dominoes. The corps of engineers promised New Orleans protection. They told us we had the state of the art hurricane protection. They gave us death and destruction!
Rotterdam in 23 feet below sea level. It is the biggest port in the world. In 1953 the North Sea rose up and killed 2000 people. This small country,Holland, made a national program to REUILD that port city and protect it from a THOUSAND YEAR FLOOD. It’s taken 30 years.
Kobe Japan was destroyed by earthquake. Japan has rebuilt its port to protect it and it is almost earh quake proff.
New Orleans is the second lagest port in the U.S. It is the fourth largest port in the World. 14,000 miles of inland waterways flows into the Mississippi river. 80% of the grain from the midwest moves down the Missisisppi river to New Orleans for export! For every barge on the river think 66 semi-trucks and trailers off of the highways of America.
New Orleans imports steel, wood, coffee, sugar. Dominoe’s
Sugar refinery is the biggest in the world.
Our coast line has been destroyed for oil and gas exploration. Alaska has 4,300 miles of pipe line. We have 68,000 miles of pipe line running through our coast We supply 30% of the crude oil used in America and we give 20% of the natural gas. We have 17 refineries on the Mississippi river that processes 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day at each refinery!
Off of lake charles we have the loop. Tankers off load oil and then it’s transported to the refineries.
I hope those of you who think too much money is being spent on La. like tuna from China. Louisiana supplies 30% of the seafood eaten in America. We have 3 of the top 11 sea food docks in America.
America spent over 100,000 BILLION dollars in todays money to rebuild Germany after world war 2.
The people of New orleans are not from a foreign country that hates America. We are not refugees. We are Americans who have had our lives destroyed by an arm of the Federal Government..not terrorist! The Federal Government must rebuld and repair the damage they have caused us.There are over 126 projects under the supervision of the Corps of Engineers that are defective in 30 different states. If the U.S.Gov. turns it’s back on New Orleans. What about Sacromento,Ca., Little Rock Ark.,Gilborro, New York, DesMoines,Ia. What about your home town, your home, your life! How would you feel if a design defect killed your family. This city has turned into a place filled with the deaths of our ederly, suicides from doctors to lawyers to dentistand now our very young! NEVER.. EVER.. FORGET ..A DESIGN DEFECT IS STILL KILLING THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS!

]]> By: Robert http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320233 Robert Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:32:31 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320233 Tim it isn't just that you elected poor leaders (we do that here too) but you <em>reelected</em> the incompetent Nagin, with the very recent public display of his gross incompetence still in the recent memory. Tim it isn’t just that you elected poor leaders (we do that here too) but you reelected the incompetent Nagin, with the very recent public display of his gross incompetence still in the recent memory.

]]> By: Peejz http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320191 Peejz Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:31:36 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320191 <a title="FEMA Wants Over $300M in Katrina Aid Back" href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070206/D8N46K6O0.html" rel="nofollow">Too Much Aid</a> "In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households," the Associated Press reports from New Orleans: <blockquote>But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time. Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region. . . . An Associated Press analysis of government data obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act suggests the government might not have been careful enough with its checkbook as it gave out nearly $5.3 billion in aid to storm victims. The analysis found the government regularly gave money to more homes in some neighborhoods than the number of homes that actually existed. The pattern was repeated in nearly 100 neighborhoods damaged by the hurricanes. At least 162,750 homes that didn't exist before the storms may have received a total of more than $1 billion in improper or illegal payments, the AP found.</blockquote> Here we thought the problem was that the government didn't do enough to help Katrina victims. Too Much Aid
“In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households,” the Associated Press reports from New Orleans:

But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.

Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region. . . .

An Associated Press analysis of government data obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act suggests the government might not have been careful enough with its checkbook as it gave out nearly $5.3 billion in aid to storm victims. The analysis found the government regularly gave money to more homes in some neighborhoods than the number of homes that actually existed.

The pattern was repeated in nearly 100 neighborhoods damaged by the hurricanes. At least 162,750 homes that didn’t exist before the storms may have received a total of more than $1 billion in improper or illegal payments, the AP found.

Here we thought the problem was that the government didn’t do enough to help Katrina victims.

]]> By: Peejz http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320160 Peejz Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:38:11 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320160 P.S.- no one accused you of being stupid, but it is your fault on <em>it's our fault for electing poor leaders, it's our fault for not filling out the paperwork and providing all the documents and making all the phone calls to get that precious aid that has already been offered.. </em> P.S.- no one accused you of being stupid, but it is your fault on it’s our fault for electing poor leaders, it’s our fault for not filling out the paperwork and providing all the documents and making all the phone calls to get that precious aid that has already been offered..

]]> By: Peejz http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320159 Peejz Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:36:20 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320159 <em>Katrina, largest, most destructive hurricane in history.</em> No it wasn't. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/gulfcoast.htm" rel="nofollow">The largest was Camille in 69'</a>. <em>You keep going back to the guv and the mayor, as if any state or city has the ability, the resources to just pop back up after such widespread and total destruction. </em> I keep going back to them because that is who you pay to do the job..they were chosen by the residents of your state..Blanco popped back enough to have her offices redone after the hurricane..it would be nice if she could put that effort into satisfing the state. Tim, you can make all the excuses you want, but Mississippi doesn't have the problems that your state seems to have. They were able to fill their paperwork out, they have been able to distribute money...Florida is hit time and again, yet they are able to fill out their paperwork... George Bush promised help and he came through..it isn't the responsibility of the feds to come in an do the states job..if that's what it will take, I'm sure the federal government can seize control of your state..is that what needs to happen? How about you guys fire the hand pick of Blanco's..even the Democrats in the state aren't supporting him.. It isn't your fault that the storm hit, but you run a risk when living in cities like that... Katrina, largest, most destructive hurricane in history. No it wasn’t. The largest was Camille in 69′.

You keep going back to the guv and the mayor, as if any state or city has the ability, the resources to just pop back up after such widespread and total destruction. I keep going back to them because that is who you pay to do the job..they were chosen by the residents of your state..Blanco popped back enough to have her offices redone after the hurricane..it would be nice if she could put that effort into satisfing the state.

Tim, you can make all the excuses you want, but Mississippi doesn’t have the problems that your state seems to have. They were able to fill their paperwork out, they have been able to distribute money…Florida is hit time and again, yet they are able to fill out their paperwork…

George Bush promised help and he came through..it isn’t the responsibility of the feds to come in an do the states job..if that’s what it will take, I’m sure the federal government can seize control of your state..is that what needs to happen?

How about you guys fire the hand pick of Blanco’s..even the Democrats in the state aren’t supporting him..

It isn’t your fault that the storm hit, but you run a risk when living in cities like that…

]]> By: Tim http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320137 Tim Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:14:05 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320137 Unbelieveable, just unbelieveable that I have to explain this to a fellow American. Let's see if you can grasp the scale of what we're talking about here: Katrina, largest, most destructive hurricane in history. JUST IN LOUISIANA: 1,464 dead. 1.3 million people initially displaced, 204,500 houses with severve or major damage. 82,000 FEMA tailers. Somebody wrote to me, "When one of our neighbors has a problem like that, we all pitch in and fix it." Well, friend, it ain't gonna happen here, because ALL the houses in my neighborhood were destroyed. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. So that "Let's all pitch in and make it better" plan just doesn't cut it. That's why President Bush himself personally came down here while the city was still full of water and pledged in a nationally televised speech, "We will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives." That's a pretty potent pledge, don't you think? You keep going back to the guv and the mayor, as if any state or city has the ability, the resources to just pop back up after such widespread and total destruction. That's why the president stepped in. That's why FEMA, SBA and even the Army came to New Orleans. Because it was a huge disaster. On 9/11, New York lost one city block. A lot of poor souls died that day, many more than Katrina could claim. But the city was still there, still functional, still inhabitable. Well Katrina filled about 80 percent of New Orleans, 100 percent of St. Bernard Parish next door, and large parts of Plaquemines, Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes, too. I know, I know, it's our fault for living here, it's our fault for electing poor leaders, it's our fault for not filling out the paperwork and providing all the documents and making all the phone calls to get that precious aid that has already been offered. The president is under no obligation to do anything he promised and it's our fault for listening. peejz, you win. We're all stupid, lazy and greedy. We brought this upon ourselves. New Orleans is not worth saving, it costs too much, it's not a federal problem, we're getting what we deserve. Thanks for enlightening me. This has been most educational. Peace, Tim Unbelieveable, just unbelieveable that I have to explain this to a fellow American. Let’s see if you can grasp the scale of what we’re talking about here: Katrina, largest, most destructive hurricane in history. JUST IN LOUISIANA: 1,464 dead. 1.3 million people initially displaced, 204,500 houses with severve or major damage. 82,000 FEMA tailers.

Somebody wrote to me, “When one of our neighbors has a problem like that, we all pitch in and fix it.” Well, friend, it ain’t gonna happen here, because ALL the houses in my neighborhood were destroyed. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. So that “Let’s all pitch in and make it better” plan just doesn’t cut it.

That’s why President Bush himself personally came down here while the city was still full of water and pledged in a nationally televised speech, “We will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives.” That’s a pretty potent pledge, don’t you think?

You keep going back to the guv and the mayor, as if any state or city has the ability, the resources to just pop back up after such widespread and total destruction. That’s why the president stepped in. That’s why FEMA, SBA and even the Army came to New Orleans. Because it was a huge disaster.

On 9/11, New York lost one city block. A lot of poor souls died that day, many more than Katrina could claim. But the city was still there, still functional, still inhabitable. Well Katrina filled about 80 percent of New Orleans, 100 percent of St. Bernard Parish next door, and large parts of Plaquemines, Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes, too.

I know, I know, it’s our fault for living here, it’s our fault for electing poor leaders, it’s our fault for not filling out the paperwork and providing all the documents and making all the phone calls to get that precious aid that has already been offered. The president is under no obligation to do anything he promised and it’s our fault for listening.

peejz, you win. We’re all stupid, lazy and greedy. We brought this upon ourselves. New Orleans is not worth saving, it costs too much, it’s not a federal problem, we’re getting what we deserve. Thanks for enlightening me.

This has been most educational.

Peace,

Tim

]]> By: Peejz http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-320093 Peejz Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:11:56 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-320093 13- Tim, you have been and will continue to be helped out by FEMA. It is not the job of FEMA to go in and coordinate State efforts..The Feds have come through, now it's time for your state to start working..It appears Blanco/Nagin are consistant with regards to how they treat the citizens..they did nothing before the storm and have done nothing after the storm! Guess what, it's time for the citizen's to start demanding action from the state...that is where the money is sitting... Let's talk about the natural disaster that occur around this country...in each of the instances, the states ask for funds, the states are given the funds and the states take care of it...All the states except for 1! Louisianna! Loisianna asks for funds, receives funds, does nothing with the funds....So if that 10% is waived, then all the problems are resolved right? That 10% is holding everything up? 13- Tim, you have been and will continue to be helped out by FEMA. It is not the job of FEMA to go in and coordinate State efforts..The Feds have come through, now it’s time for your state to start working..It appears Blanco/Nagin are consistant with regards to how they treat the citizens..they did nothing before the storm and have done nothing after the storm! Guess what, it’s time for the citizen’s to start demanding action from the state…that is where the money is sitting…

Let’s talk about the natural disaster that occur around this country…in each of the instances, the states ask for funds, the states are given the funds and the states take care of it…All the states except for 1! Louisianna! Loisianna asks for funds, receives funds, does nothing with the funds….So if that 10% is waived, then all the problems are resolved right? That 10% is holding everything up?

]]> By: Tim http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/comment-page-1/#comment-319945 Tim Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:08:25 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/02/05/blancos-re-election-strategy-the-blame-game/#comment-319945 Robert, I suppose you're yet another fine Christian. Thanks for the love. Preejz, Powell says Louisiana should use money from the federal government to pay the 10% co-pay, thus giving the money right back. You think that's a good answer??? And yet, somehow, WE'RE the stupid ones? Okay, I will accept your premise that we who choose to live in a dangerous place must accept the risks. I'm good with that. So I look forward to your blog about how FEMA should not be helping out in the Northeast and Midwest right now because that's their own fault--it snows there. And the same goes for tornadoes and hurricanes in Florida, earthquakes in California, etc. Let's pass a law and make it official so that we all know where we stand. Peace, Tim Robert, I suppose you’re yet another fine Christian. Thanks for the love.

Preejz, Powell says Louisiana should use money from the federal government to pay the 10% co-pay, thus giving the money right back. You think that’s a good answer??? And yet, somehow, WE’RE the stupid ones?

Okay, I will accept your premise that we who choose to live in a dangerous place must accept the risks. I’m good with that. So I look forward to your blog about how FEMA should not be helping out in the Northeast and Midwest right now because that’s their own fault–it snows there. And the same goes for tornadoes and hurricanes in Florida, earthquakes in California, etc. Let’s pass a law and make it official so that we all know where we stand.

Peace,

Tim

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