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I think in hindsight everything could have been better but everyone will say that “I did my best.”
Live life forwards, see it backwards.
(20/20 vision that way.)How can one judge?
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How can one judge?
I guess one might judge by the dead bodies floating in sewage and starving people that were left to suffer for six days…and the arrogant republican administration in the white house who couldn’t care less about poor people’s agony (until there is a national outcry)
Yeah, I think that might be how one would judge.
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I’m sorry. I was generalizing and not speaking about the current situation as much as human nature in general. Nor was I defending inaction and idiocy.
The current administration’s response (Or lack thereof) is unexcusable and the general stupidity that has been demonstrated over the years is exemplified in this tragic time.
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Media
Michael Moore’s Newsletter used satire most effectively recently to describe the Federal delays.
Every month Harper’s Magazine also not only calls a spade a spade but analyses the dirt on it, probes the source of its nicks and scratches and lays the blame for its broken handle!
I am a longterm subscriber of both of them, glad that, considering the clamp-down on the media generally, this remnant of freedom still exists in America.
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politicizing this tragedy is wrong
you know….. politicizing this tragedy to further some right-wing, left-wing, special interest, or middle-of-the-road agenda is not right. Finding scapegoats or even real villans will not put food in the mouths of hungry children, rebuild the destroyed cities along the Gulf Coast, or do anything to minimize the suffering of the countless thousands of displaced people…... Gggeeezzzzzzzz I can’t believe some folks.Instead of squabbling, why don’t we spend some time actually DOING something constructive? (Like raising money to provide relief)
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You cannot fix a problem that you do not acknowledge. Nor can you better a plan if you ignore the short comings. Changing this takes political action. Keeping silent in the face of such grave inadequacies is as wrong as not DOING something in a monetary/physical sense.
It is not a matter of blame but of fixing a flaw that some would rather ignore (or worse, white wash).
Believe me, voicing an opinion on this horrific lack of response to human suffering has in no way kept me from DOING SOMETHING. In fact, it seems to be that those who speak out ARE the ones DOING the most in other ways too.
Assuming that I have not done my part is really not a good argument for not speaking up about what went wrong (that allowed thousands of people to sit for days in their own waste without water or food). Especially since you have no evidence or foundation for that assumption. That assumption is thrown around a great deal when the issues are laid bare and it just doesn’t work. You don’t know what another person contributes in a personal sense. It is entirely possible to be outraged by the lack of response AND DO SOMETHING too.
In other words, it seems you are saying: ‘Shut up and just help clean up the mess. Don’t worry about seeing to it that it does not happen again’
Good plan.
I don’t believe some folks.There is a tragic outcome to ignoring what needs to be changed and we change things through our political stands. You have to find the flaw to fix it. Very basic.
How about we DO BOTH: Take care of the ones so devastated by this mess by giving all we can AND change the flaws in the plan that caused it in the first place. (Might take a bit of politics to do that and someone might actually have to own up to responsibility.)
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you would be correct if you accurately knew what was going on
Actually, I’m not saying that at all. What i’m saying is that the political rhetoric that I’m seeing from all of the sides is simply bullshit.Since the storm, I’ve been in and out of the Disaster Zone almost constantly, and can say from firsthand experience that the images, commentary, and rhetoric being put out by the media is extremely biased. It paints a very distorted image of what really happened, and what the real response was. ALL sides of the political spectrum are trying to use the deaths of thousands to make political gains…. and it makes me sick.
Yes, there were extremely serious errors made in the disaster response by the Federal Government…. but there were also serious errors made by virtually EVERY agency involved, especially by the Louisiana State Government, and the City of New Orleans. Further, there were systemic errors dating back through the last few decades. BUT, the media has chosen not to show the real situation….. and thus the general Public has no clue as to the reality on the ground in the city.
As a result, little “polls” like yours only serve to divide the people, and make a bad situation even worse.
So YES, if all you have to base your opinion on is one or another of an extremely biased source, you SHOULD keep your mouth shut.
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Because I do not agree with your views does not mean I am not entitled to speak my mind.
Your debate strategies are primitive and rude. Surely you could disagree without such ugliness. Sigh. Perhaps not.
So….
The media was biased. That may hold some truth.
They found ONLY the neglected people to film? Only the ones sitting in filth for days? To use one of your words, GGGeeezzzzee, there were sure a lot of them to choose from. Perhaps the help was really there (and in the numbers that was needed) and the media dodged filming that in order to promote their leftist agenda? Fox?
It’s hard to deny an entire stadium full of people in dire need for days. That would be a little hard to show a ‘biased’ view of, wouldn’t it?
Is there more than one side to being left alone to manage like that in a crisis of that magnitude? Really? Can you show the ‘good’ side of not being helped for days on end? Shame on the media for showing those suffering people. Biased? Of all the arguments, my God.I would certainly think that Fox would have found a way to clean up their coverage if there were any way at all to do so.
I do not deny that it was a series of problems and not only the government’s slow response. But, at some point you have to be able to depend on a reasonable response time in crisis by those you elect into office. YOU being there does NOT change that. Sorry.
No one has a right to speak unless they were there and agree with you?I would concede that a ‘poll’ was the wrong way to incite discussion of this topic. But knuckling under to bullying such as: ‘keep your mouth shut’ is certainly not the answer either. (And not on my to-do list, I assure you).
Really, I am open to reasonable exchange.
But ‘keep your mouth shut’? Come on!
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“White wash,” heh. That’s marvelous.
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