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    What the Arny Core of engineers did is still not enough to prevent it from happening all over again.

    Tell you what Jerry.There is sea side properties for a summer home for you for sale cheap. Buy one and "try" to get flood insurance................

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    Living down there is like playing Russian roulette with 5 rounds in a 6 shooter.
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    you can not purchase property in a flood zone without buying flood insurance unless you pay cash period. you choose to live there you take the risk but it is tax payers who pay to rebuild it all. so how is that fair ? you build a house in hurricane alley but i have to pay to rebuild it every year. rich and poor alike. stop blaming society for the poor . that mentality is what got us into the mess in the first place . we do it here and all over the planet. i for one am tired of it . you either fish or cut bait but the free ride needs to come to an end . move home with your mama or someone else but stop making me pay for you .

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    Early in 1975 my employer transferred me to New Orleans. We lived there a little over four years.

    Edwin "Smooth Eddie" Edwards was governor at the time.

    There were fourth generation welfare recipients then. No telling how many more generations there are now. People talked about the fact that the pumps and conduits for removing flood water from the area were 100 years old and couldn't possibly handle a disaster like maybe a levee failure that would dump Lake Pontchartrain into the city. Political corruption was rampant. Except for private schools the schools were rotten.

    I could go on.....

    People complained but didn't do anything. State and local government did damn little (if anything) in the way of preventive measures to avoid the disaster that had to come, and come it did. Hurricanes came and the dikes failed and the pumps were useless. You know the rest of that part of that story.

    I mentioned political corruption.... For what it's worth, Smooth Eddie went to the slammer a long time ago. As far as I know, he's still there.

    Gary, take an interesting drive on highway 190 between Baton Rouge and New Orleans if you get a chance. You'll see what looks like hundreds of those FEMA trailers. Just sitting.

    Louisiana now has a non-Democrat governor who is facing situations and dealing with problems and not sitting around waiting for the federal government to come riding in and do things that state and local entities should have faced up to many years ago.

    New Orleans is an intriguing and very interesting city. A great place to visit. Our son is career Coast Guard and is stationed there. It's a long day's drive from where we live but the grand-kids are there so we'll do it.

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    everybody know bush caused the hurricane ............

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    Quote Originally Posted by shine View Post
    everybody know bush caused the hurricane ............

    Nope Bush did nothing.........a,I mean there too.

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    wasn't his job to take care of new orleans . they have a governor to take care of it . not to mention state / county representatives. so you really think the president is suppose to take care of it ? what should have happened is there state representatives should have been brought up on charges for not doing their job. starting with their worthless governor .

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    Shine,Ive said it before that politics on a site like this really doesn't have a place. And I don't like posting about it either. I have said a number of times that Trillion dollar debt from two wars is the main issue at hand and you seem to reject that fact. I don't think there is anything more I can do. So for now anyways,I'm going to lay off posting to this thread. Thanks for the discussion.

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    Gary!! thanks for your posts!! Pete

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1gary View Post
    Shine,Ive said it before that politics on a site like this really doesn't have a place. And I don't like posting about it either. I have said a number of times that Trillion dollar debt from two wars is the main issue at hand and you seem to reject that fact. I don't think there is anything more I can do. So for now anyways,I'm going to lay off posting to this thread. Thanks for the discussion.
    Well, Obama was elected into office to fix those issues. Instead, he's dumped billions into other things he was told would fail. Solyndra, Think City and the Stimulus to name a few, but these things kept people thinking he was doing something good at the time he did them. Now, if he applied those billions back into paying off the deficit, then we would be better off now than before. Rather than do that, he decided to raise the debt cap and keep on spending.. Obama understands people want handouts, free healthcare and a job that they have to do as little at to get a good paycheck. What he doesn't understand is that the Government cannot afford to fund these programs. So, we can re-elect a guy that we know will keep the debt climbing, or we can elect a guy that we know can make money and likely reverse the deficit. He may not be the most likeable person, but you don't have to be likable to be successful. Many people hated Clintons guts, but he knew how to balance a budget. Even if Romney only got 4 years, it would be enough to improve the goverments money problem.. 16 Trillion in debt, the goverment is bankrupt, if a company goes bankrupt ( files chapter 11 ), they downsize and restructure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt167 View Post
    16 Trillion in debt, the goverment is bankrupt, if a company goes bankrupt ( files chapter 11 ), they downsize and restructure.
    Downsizing is a concept that politicians won't talk about. Obama should have instituted a hiring freeze on all federal government positions as soon as he sat down in the Oval Office for the first time. With a freeze on, natural attrition would begin thinning the bloated ranks of federal employees, which has grown by 3.5% since January 2008. Please don't argue with the figure presented here, I'm trying to make the point that federal positions should have thinned since January 2008, not fattened. If the number grew by 1/10th of 1%, it would still be too many. Entire Departments need to be disbanded. I understand that even doing away with the entire federal workforce wouldn't save the country, but shouldn't we at least make an effort?

    I do remember that upon entering office, Obama began doing away with social programs that were pushing the debt up. I thought to myself, hey, maybe this guy will be ok. Then, as quickly as he began, he stopped and I have not heard another word about downsizing government-funded programs.

    As I have said before on political threads such as this one, we're done. Keeping to the present, unsustainable course and speed, the good ship USA will hit an iceberg and sink and there's just no other way to see it. If history repeats, we will then suffer a revolution and re-form into a dictatorship.

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    this all that matters to me. the worst 30 months in 25 years.

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    [QUOTE=1gary;475293] The trailers where never meant to be lived in full-time in the first place so once the people where evicted they where in such poor condition had to be destroyed. I know about that from a huge RV site I am apart of where some where bought and people telling us how bad they where.

    Maybe they weren't intended to be permanent residences but they weren't intended to be travel trailers either. They are presentable enough, though.

    I'd love to have one parked beside a moderately remote lake where my grandson and I could wet an occasional fish hook!

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    Here's George's payback for funding Obama....

    "Obama has recently promised 10 billion of our tax dollars to Brazil , in order to give them a leg-up in expanding their offshore oil fields. Obama's largesse towards Brazil came shortly after his political financial backer, George Soros, invested heavily in Brazilian oil (Petrobras)."
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    "tax dollars", that's your money and my money indirectly funneled to the very person who intends to kill these United States of America. Do some reading on George Soros if you want to understand what's going on. He's the puppeteer.
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    no truer words ..........................

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