02-07-2009, 03:49 PM
$tevie wrote:
[quote=swampy]So very thoughtful of you. Your selective political correctness is so charming.
What political correctness? Have I mentioned race at all?
I am talking about the deaths of people. Why don't you get that? I am talking about a tragedy. What is wrong with you?
The tragedy of Katrina is that more could have been done and wasn't. You had a mayor of a city 13 feet below sea level, on the edge of huge lake with ancient levies, facing a category 5 hurricane, with 4 days notice. You had a state with a flawed Emergency Plan and a governor who refused to call up the national guard to help evacuate people. You didn't expect a lot of people to die?
Black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't matter. Race was not the issue. Incompetence was the issue and that p*sses me off. People that expect the government to take care of them and don't heed warnings p*sses me off. I'm sorry people died, but 1 ) I wasn't surprised and 2 ) I'm angry because it didn't have to happen to them.