Which was a bigger tragedy?

[Y_lifter]

My 3 years in high school were an awesome tragedy..

Where would you rank that ?

 

[Frisky]

My 3 years in high school were an awesome tragedy..

Where would you rank that ?

right along side of mine... LOL

 

[jnevin]

stupidity... or ...... really... I'd say most were the fact of poverty. If you don't have transportation how the hell do you evacuate? Just because you are poor does that make your life less valuable?

Kind of...

 

[ItalianMuscle27]

I just re-read the pole question.. and those poor people that lost everything, I just heard on the news that some of them are suing the city. What the f*ck for? How can you sue the city for something that happened from mother nature?? Its a shame they lost what they did but cmon already.. Sueing the city takes the cake.. Unfuckingbelievable..

 

[bluepeter]

I just re-read the pole question.. and those poor people that lost everything, I just heard on the news that some of them are suing the city. What the f*ck for? How can you sue the city for something that happened from mother nature?? Its a shame they lost what they did but cmon already.. Sueing the city takes the cake.. Unfuckingbelievable..

Something called levees. You know, the things that the city and state chintzed on for years? The things that subsequently broke and caused the death and devestation? Katrina herself as a natural disaster was bad but the damage was caused by negligence. Then again, America is the country where you can sue for the coffee being too hot or the instructions on your new RV about the cruise control not being clear enough.

 

[feisty11975]

Something called levees. You know, the things that the city and state chintzed on for years? The things that subsequently broke and caused the death and devestation? Katrina herself as a natural disaster was bad but the damage was caused by negligence. Then again, America is the country where you can sue for the coffee being too hot or the instructions on your new RV about the cruise control not being clear enough.

BRAVO! Yes, they can sue the city and the state for this disaster. The hurricane itself was not an issue in New Orleans. They caught the weaker side of the storm and there would have been no flooding there if the levees had not broken. And with the levees being broken, the pumps did not work. So they were unable to pump out the water. Its tragic what happened...Really it is.

Does anyone remember Hurricane Rita? This one affected our area...more the South Central and south Western part of Louisiana. Now the damage was caused by the hurricane and the rising tide from the storm. Lots and lots of people lost everything they had with this storm. I know many that only had the clothes on their backs once the storm rolled through. Blame mother nature for this one but not for the termoil in New Orleans.

 

[ItalianMuscle27]

Well if thats the case, I think Im going to sue my city/state for something than.. I dont know what, but Ill think of something.. Maybe sue mcdonalds for giving me cold food, ice in my coke, and a busted ketchup packet that got all over my clothes. I had an interview that afternoon.. assholes!

 

[Lestat]

this sounds like a budding socialist speech from an elitist californian
lol @ fight wealth consolidation, lenin felt the same way
you are the rich mofo on this thread, why don't you give your own money away to help these poor folks? don't volunteer my money away

I used to say the EXACT same thing to liberals bro. Don't you complain unless you are willing to give up what YOU have!

Our country is a society, a system, a community.

Imagine if paying for trash service was voluntary. Think about it. You'd have a few people paying to get their trash taken every week, but those who wanted to save money would opt to get it once a month, or never and say they would do it themselves. And then you'd end up with a total shithole.

Me donating everything I have to katrina victims does shit. the federal goverment ponying up some tax dollars to actually help people as opposed to line company's pockets like haliburton will go a very long way.

 

[jnevin]

Something called levees. You know, the things that the city and state chintzed on for years? The things that subsequently broke and caused the death and devestation? Katrina herself as a natural disaster was bad but the damage was caused by negligence. Then again, America is the country where you can sue for the coffee being too hot or the instructions on your new RV about the cruise control not being clear enough.

These are almost as bad as OJ getting off.

 

[ksharp01]

Well if thats the case, I think Im going to sue my city/state for something than.. I dont know what, but Ill think of something.. Maybe sue mcdonalds for giving me cold food, ice in my coke, and a busted ketchup packet that got all over my clothes. I had an interview that afternoon.. assholes!

Yeah but the problem was the it was brought to the publics attention that the government KNEW the pumps where old and outdated and didn't work!!! Those should of never got to that point.