The Blame Game
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50 million dollars.
Several proposals for 50 million dollars to repair the Levees.
50 million dollars would have been the cost to fix the Levees. It was proposed and voted down for 15 years….
The Votes were down party lines. Although everyone said they were necessary those that voted against it did so as a block.
In the wake of the Disaster, we heard we can’t play the blame game, by the same people that preach personal responsibility. I think the Republican Congressmen and Senators that repeatedly voted against repairing the Levees should be named and pillored.
Everything is Politics.
The Levees were not repaired because New Orleans is considered Democratic. Even those in Baton Rouge were against the Levees being repaired.
Everyone knew the Levees needed to be repaired.
But the repairs were blocked because of Politics.
Politics affects everything.
How you voted impacted whether the Levees got repaired or not.
2000 people Died and 100 Billion dollars in damage occurred, because of Politics.
Because of Politics the Levees were not repaired.
Should there have been an investigation. Should people have been held responsible. Should those that voted against the Levees being repaired be held responsible?
Shouldn’t we be playing the Blame Game? Shouldn’t we have Personal Responsibility?
Thanks Roscoe. The sad thing about this whole thing is that people do not have the “right of return”. International law says differently, but politicians have made it impossible for the people who lived in New Orleans to return.
Sad. They knew… The damage cost way more than levee repair would have…
When politics causes that much loss for that many people there is nothing sadder. 😥
What’s sad is the money we’ve blatantly wasted could have covered this many times over:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/wasted-war-cash/
Over $12 million per day over the last ten years!
It’s called Disaster Capitalism. Big Corporations (like maybe Halliburton) can now make $100 Billion off this, instead a measily $50 million. Those 2000 dead people are just collateral damage in the Republican War on America
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