The 10% rule says 90% of the people around us are idiots. Reading many of the posts lately proves it.

There are so many levels of sociopathy at work in this situation that it’ll take a governmental commissions worth of monkies, typing for the next thousand years, to put a positive spin on this whole situation …

It includes using BUSES and all city resources to get those out who cannot do it on their own FIRST.

He has the facts please listen and then decide for yourselves who is to blame. It ain’t the white folks let me tell you.

Heloise

The mayor should have used all those school buses to evacuate, and put food in the shelters before hand….what was he thinking?

Education is the way out of poverty, everyone should be made to stay in school, at least get a high school education.

Rappers are not the answer for these young people, mimicking them is stupid. And joining a gang will only lead to being downtrodden.

Having one child out of wedlock is a mistake, having more is stupid.

And I would like to know, if anyone can tell me, how many illegal aliens do you have there, and are they gangs?

If they are, the government of New Orleans should have kicked them back to their countries long ago..as well as every State that has them.

We stand and critize people for not leaving NO. How many of you offered a senior citizen, or a young single parent, or someone with a disability a ride? Where was your compassion? I say shame on you? Get the stick out of your own eye.

As far as the looting. Yes there are some that will take advantage of a situation like this for their own personal gain. But that is just a small percentage of what is happening in NO. The majority is for survival. Violence begets violence.

Yes there were mostly black people looting, however, that would be because the percentage of poor and sick in this country are black. But I also seen white and hispanics looting.

The whole situation in NO should be looked at in our nation as a whole on how we treat the poor, sick and elderly.

Yes NO is our energy port. However, that does not make it any better that the rest. NO is part of a body. The body works best as a whole, however never think that the body can not function without a leg or two. However, NO cannot function without the rest of its body. I don’t think the leg does much good by itself. It will just dry up and die.

Within our country there are other cities, counties, and states that are just as important. We need all our body parts to function to our best abilitie.

It is time to stop the BS and work together for the greater good of our nation.

These people were told to leave, if they couldn’t leave to get to shelter. The shelter was there. The walked out in 4 foot of water, what was wrong with walking out while there was no water, pure laziness.

I do feel a lot of this is to blame with the lackluster governing and blame the local, and state government for not moving people out faster, and more effectively, and for man’s sake, they had the buses, which they so carelessly left to drown in the bus barns, instead of moving them out way before time. All of these mindless politicians are old enough to know Betsy, and Camille, and should have known the damage would be 10 to 100 times worse than either of those storms.

Regarding the statement of the above-mentioned statement about the “People who value their possessions have created an underclass exactly like themselves.” Dammit, education is free, the yellow bus sytem is free, and getting a job is free, work for your so called material possessions and build some character as to what is your possessive nature, and what is your need in life, and utilize some cognitive thought as to who gives a flip what Boo Boo has on his feet, or Joe is driving. Bling for sure didn’t come from the have’s, it’s a most assured urban slang, and propietory demonstrative. Perhaps all those rappers and hip hop videos, as well as the sports stars showing their bling bling has implemented this want not the suburbia have’s who have garnished an education out of succession, and desire, and not because they were moved through education because they could play ball, or rap about killing, treating women badly, and smoking dope!

Andi

It’s fairly simple, though few are willing to admit
COMMON SENSE my fellow Americans, I don’t care HOW much looting your inclined to do in your off/Katrina hours of fun. Loot all you wan’t. But if you find yourself in some kind of once-in-a-lifetime Katrina kind of event. Think twice if you hear a gunshot. ESPECIALLY if you ain’t been see’in no police around for awhile. You like police. You know dere’s certain rules. Like maranda and all that. OTHERWISE -been nice knowin’ ya you silly dumb*ss kid, I got’s me some needy/sick people to to go tend to. And I’m droppin’ what I’m carryin’ to them if’n I heeres me a gunshot, simple as that.

chances are you might die anyway if your not willing to apply a little common sense in your new endofthe/mississippi-side environment anyway

lots of irrevocable things are giong to happen in those first few days/ that’s just how crisis goes/ crisis means decision-time / for all kinds of folk\ presidents, looters, untrained tenders of the infirm, guardsmen finally allowed in by their superiors to help, floating boats and attic-bound kitty-cats too.
Even the Coast Guard heroes on day one////\//had to make all kind of unpleasant decisions about how to find people and who to leave awhile\ and you can bet your but they didnt let it slow them down. You pause, take a breath, and DECIDE and GO TO IT.
When it’s all simmered down, then you take a nice break from making any big decisions for a while. (Because THEN you’re more liable to screw things up untill you’ve had weeks to simmer down off the intensity of it.)

I’m whith JOE B on this one.
GROW A SPINE and MAKE A CHOICE.

Then of course you give the chief you sincere prayers and hope with any luck and grace there will manage to be a little less death in BOTH groups if possible. But you got to back up your leader ONE way or ANOTHER, you don’t just ask your top person to burn the candle at both ends and whine about the results.