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Smed - 2005-09-01 12:23:21
I too, am at a loss. About most everything happening down there. Incredible.
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Melody - 2005-09-01 12:36:20
I've faced money troubles before, but usually this was due to a lack of income, rather than the cost of gasoline. That's not to say that it doesn't hurt, but I think, in the past, the low price of gasoline made everyone arrogant about how much gasoline is left. There is considerably less oil left in the world than we've been lead to suspect. Countries can drill for more oil, make more money, and have more influence in energy policy-making decisions, if they overestimate their oil reserves; and so they do. No one really knows how long it will be before none of us can fill up our gas tanks anymore, but I would guess that it can happen in as short as 30-40 years. Then, it won't be just the poor that will suffer, but the middle class will suffer as well. (I don't know that the rich will ever suffer, though. They usually manage to stay afloat.)
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g - 2005-09-01 13:03:41
I think I'm more frustrated than anything. Last night on CNN, one of the correspondants quoted Larry King as saying that he had seen a National Geographic special on New Orleans and what would happen if a gigantic hurricane hit it.
Wah-lah... scroll up a few months and there it is.
So, I'm disappointed that the governments in the south as well as our Federal gov't hasn't stepped up, grabbed the problems by the balls, and did something about it.
And no, I still don't like John Kerry. His wife STILL gives me the creeps. And, as much as I have to listen to everyone bash Bush, I don't know if it's entirely his fault. (I tend to blather on... sorry)
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j - 2005-09-01 17:33:11
you know what i did on 9-11? i played tag with my kids in the yard. just because something terrible is happening doesnt mean life cant go on. is bush supposed to cry his eyes out, glued to the tele? i would think that life would go on, despite tragedy. he got to it fast as he was able. he's a symbol, he's not running the country any more than voters made him president. anyways, in two months you'll forget all about this tragedy just like you forget about the tsunami, both equally tragic. give your 5 bucks to the red cross if it makes you feel better, but if you really wanna help, send it in 5 months when the media goes away and the money quits rollin in. people are lazy, if it isn't in their face they aren't doing squat about it. what are you doing?
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me - 2005-09-01 18:15:14
amen "i."
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Darci - 2005-09-01 19:41:26
Well, I'm not out playing tag in my yard saying "So what?, didn't happen to ME"
After you have sent and forgiven billions of dollars in debt to another country, and are at war within another, you tend to move on. Katrina is fresh, and much more importantly, here, in your homeland, and the response the gulf has been given has been "a national disgrace" I notice you, yourself, have indeed not forgotten 9-11, since you brought it up right away.
Your logic is fuzzy at best, and seems pointed at making people angry, especially the diary owner. How republican of you to take a tragedy and turn it to your own use.
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Amanda - 2005-09-01 21:25:47
You bring up some very good points. I've been following this horrible act of nature since the beginning and I too can't believe what's going on. As if it's not bad enough people are breaking into deserted buildings taking everything they don't need right now to survive, you've got the president in Washington still talking about Iraq at any chance he gets. Who the hell voted this monkey into office? I'm not legal to vote yet, but I sure as hell never would have. Anybody who thinks he's doing a good job with this ought to be slapped upside the head. I feel terrible for those people down there. No water, no food, no housing, no A/C when it's 100 degrees out there. The people that don't have a way out are paying the most for this and might even pay with their lives. That's terrible.
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j - 2005-09-01 22:45:04
so what didn't happen to me? i lost 4 family members on 9-11, thankyou. i have 2 members of my family that i have yet to hear from who lived in new orleans, not to mention several friends in the area. i suppose you missed my point, very republican of YOU.
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PoeticaL - 2005-09-01 23:54:24
I agree with your comments. Furthermore I am angry at every fool idiot that says to me "Why did those people stay, how flipping stupid of them!" C'mon...some of these people were living from paycheck to paycheck and some of them were already struggling to survive prior to these storms. These are not largely affluent areas that are affected for the most part. These people did not have credit cards and savings to draw from to obtain airline tickets to fly out of town, nor did they have the educational background in all cases to be smart enough to come up with a plan of action that would have put them into a better situation. I live in Florida and if I get evacuated I will leave. I will drive until I can't drive anymore, but it would still be a struggle to make it happen. Some people are so bad off they can't even struggle their way out. But there for the grace of god go I.....people sitting in their living rooms need to think on a more critical thinking level.....and George Bush needs to get the hell out of his living room and do something already!!
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why - 2005-09-02 06:16:15
j - 2005-09-01 22:45:04
You didnt lose 4 family members you fruitloop. Lying to prove a point is dispicable.
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Chris - 2005-09-02 08:16:53
J, who are you trying to kid? In your first post you make it very clear that you don't give one shred so long as it didn't happen to you. You think that because the media has stopped reporting on the tsunami, people have forgotten? Do you think that people are THAT glued to the television? If so, you live a very sheltered life.
The President is NOT supposed to go on business as usual. He is SUPPOSE to stop everything and do his very damnedest to help his countrymen. When the tsunami occurred, what did he do? He immediately sent every possible bit of aid. An equally devastating phenomenon occurred on US soil, and what does he do? What does his administration do? Bush stayed on vacation for 2 days. Rice is STILL on vacation. So is Cheney. Bush sends help that will take DAYS to reach these people. We KNEW it would be a Cat 4 or better. We KNEW N.O. would be destroyed. Why wasn't he at his desk ordering Michael Brown (Director of FEMA) to set up truck in a safe location to respond on a moment's notice? Why didn't he order every available aircraft into LA over the weekend, when it was still safe, to fly those people out?
You are suppose to go on with your life. Other than a donation, or actually going down there to help, there isn't much you can do. It's not your job to give unprecedented aid. Your job is taking care of your kids. His job is the Presidency of the United States. His job is to protect us, serve us, and help us. Being the President isn't a 9-5, weekends and Federal holidays off job. You have to be available 24/7.
Oh, one more thing, if you didn't lose anyone in 9/11 then you just gave everyone who did a huge slap in the face. Thankfully I didn't lose anyone I knew. Even still, trying to gain false sympathy points to boost your point, which I assure you, you have none, is beyond deplorable.
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Hallie - 2005-09-02 14:01:05
I agree very much with Chris about everything in that post. I think some of us are being a little hard on J, though. We really have no way of knowing who here lost people on 9-11, and four is hardly an impossible number. My perspective might be skewed because I live in Annapolis, MD, and many of my friends and friends' parents work in the pentagon or in the government buildings which were surrounded with car bombs, etc. No one I knew personally was lost, but I have friends who lost more than four family members that day, just because one branch of the military was a family tradition and they were in the same place on the same day, doing the same thing. Some people do lie about that, which is awful, but I think we should try to assume everyone we encounter is telling the truth- just in case.
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