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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Sudbury Star Editorial - All should have left, but for a variety of reasons, the residents of New Orleans refused to heed the warnings

Joe:

Rarely do I see a perfect definition of dumb that could be used in a dictionary than I read in the Sudbury Star Editorial from the 13th.

It is obvious that the writer based their assumptions on a life lived in relative ease and free from the realities of the abject poverty that many Americans live in. Either by their own hand, or due to the policies of recent governments wanting to have their cake and eat it to.

In New Orleans 40% of the people are below the poverty line, a line that is no where near what Canada considers to be poverty.

Only 10% of the people in New Orleans have a car. You can assume that most them are not part of the 40%.

Consider the fact that many of the people who did not get out in time probably had no where to go, had no way of getting there, had no idea of where that nowhere might be, nor what they would face if they left their homes. Something they knew they had.

The governments of both the state city and federal levels failed the people of New Orleans.

Yes, the people of New Orleans should have been bettered prepared, but when you have nothing, and must struggle to survive on a day to day basis with little or nothing, how far ahead can you prepare for, when you must find your next meal?

What Katrina has done other than tear New Orleans from the face of the earth, is it tore away the pretty cover up of the fact that America has turned into a country of winners and losers, The losers are those that happen to have lost their jobs to outsourcing, a practice that is rewarded by further tax deductions for doing so.

You can rest assured that Bush will look into the situation, and make sure he comes out smelling like roses. He represents the new brand of management that do not want to hear the negative, and blindly think that all things at the front line of their organizations is okay, and actually believe themselves.

The losers in this whole situation are those that think the situation of what was done and what was not done was not based on race.

Yes, we must prepare ourselves for civil or natural disasters and make sure we can survive on our own until help can arrive. This must be done for ourselves and those around us in the community as a whole. If we don't do that, why have a community?

We must make sure that our government leaders do hear the truth about what is actually happening versus what they think is happening from their lofty positions. Unfortunately the current trend is to keep our politicians and bureaucrats from the public. I don't know if that is to protect us from them, or them from us, or them from reality.

Will look into that.

If anyone is interested in the policy discussion pods called Parliamentary Policy Forums in the Daily Digest of September 8, 2005, and lives in Calgary, I would be interested in setting something up here. It would have to be under the auspices that no one is rejected from the group, and no one tries to hijack the process for their own single issue needs. Canada must get back to the practice of people being able to talk, discuss and come to a consensus on issues and ideas. Our diverging from this has resulted in the current position of lacklustre interest in politics in Canada, by not only the young, but many other Canadians. E-mail me at: normfg@hotmail.com.

It would be my idea to have the pod run close to the debate club rules I was subject to in my High School debating club. One subject, all can speak, all are heard, and maybe a consensus arrived at. A consensus does not mean all agree with one side of the argument or the other. It means we meet somewhere in the middle or agree to disagree, but walk away still talking and having a coffee.


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