Re: PING: RicSeyler Re: [SPAM] Please help [OT]

In article <p0r6f29p3l66154r4ver0smf601487oco8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, BoilerBill
<Me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >One of the most frustrating things about Katrina, as far as New Orleans
> >goes, is that it was largely a man made disaster; the levee failures
> >combined with the distructive negligence of the wetlands creatd the
worst of
> >it. The citizens learned the hard way that the agencies entrusted with
their
> >protection were not trustworthy. They were negligent and incompetent (I
> >think, to a criminal degree), and it seems next to impossible to demand
> >accountability on any front. Ofcourse, as citizens, we are guilty of
> >complacency. I'm guessing that this can be said about most of the US.

Do things seem to changing where you are? Are they taking *honest*
steps to make sure this doesn't happen again to you all? 

> >
> >I hope people around the country who live near lakes, rivers, dams,
etc.
> >have been ****ged out of complacency and don't *assume* that their local
and
> >federal agencies are protecting them. I fear not though, since most
media
> >continue to charaterize it as a natural disaster and concentrate on the
> >*drama* of the storm and the rescues and such.

Not much of the REAL news is trickling down - mainly exactly what you
said - the drama. Are you all actually rebuilding? The news says you
are, but I'd rather hear the truth from someone who lives there - and
doesn't have a cor****ate bottom line to protect.

What do you think of Nagin? He seems to have placed all the guilt
squarely on FEMA's shoulders . . .  

Sorry for the stupid questions!

-- 
Connie