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I have deeper emotions for someone who is suffering from the weather or anything else when they use common sense. The people that choose to live in the flooded area of new Orleans were playing Russian roulette. That's also true with people who live on the coast line or the line of fire so to speak. They know its not a matter of if but when. They are victims of their own stupidity. ITS HARD TO REALLY TREAT ALL PEOPLE EQUAL WHEN ONE GROUP CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR LOSS.
These people that you think are victims by their own stupidity I disagree. Most People living in the coastal areas are there providing essential services for the rest of the country. Me included. The first group I can think of are military, Then port workers without port workers I have no outlet for my finished products. Without port workers I have no fuel to conduct my business with. Coastal areas provide vital services for the rest of the country. Do you remember what happened to the price of fuel after rita and katrina? $3.65 diesel. Without coastal workers that is the price you will pay everyday if not more. People that work on the coast providing these services are entitled to the same things you are. They need grocery stores they need sewage plants they need public utilities. Everything you need they will need. If nobody lives there who will provide these services for them. Maybe on your little ranch you are self sufficent maybe you don't need fuel, elec, raw materials, a market for your finished product maybe you don't need anything at all. But I do and I am thankfull for these people that you call stupid because without them I couldn't see the same profit as I do with them.
What you people want to call an excellent post i see as a biased read and interpretation.
Lets see if i can enlighten a little bit here. The people that suffered the most were on welfare not industry workers. The industry workers left and went to higher ground. I dare say many could have been living on higher ground if they had so choosen. Most lived there by choice. Go back and look at the pictures cars worth three times the value of their homes.
Just take a drive through what is considered to be the gheto on any given day. $40,000.00 cars while their houses are worth 3,000.00 on the best day drive through the inner cities. It all has to deal with choice for a lot of folks.
Then look at what a lot of them bought with the emergency debit cards. Liquor, hookers, big screens, massages and on and on.
Now as for the coastline people how many times have you seen where one big mansion after the other was destroyed two or three times over only to build back. These are also the welfare people also knowing they live in unsafe areas or hurricane alley. Yet they rebuild time and time again. Then when destruction comes they hold their hands out wanting charity or goverment assistance. The rich welfare recipients. ;-)
I think it would be wise for some of you to go back and read some of the posts that were written in 2005 after Katrina hit.
If someone knows they are in harms way or are living in the path of harm and keep doing it they are plain old stupid.
Ignorance is to not know better. Dumb deals with people who are operating without a full deck. Stupid is to know something can harm and do nothing about it and allow it to happen anyhow. There are excuses for and there can and should be compassion for ignorance and dumb.
Stupid people get what they deserve plain and simple.
somm im glad you were honest in your last sentence you would not profit with out them. The american way. One man said something years ago that if put in play would help anyone be proud of their acheivments. Ask not what your country can do for you But rather what can you do for your country. I think this holds true also when applied to our fellow man who desrve it.
I was one of those stupid industry workers that provided you services for thirty years, you haven't a clue.
I guess you think our homes and jobs don't get destroyed, I guess you think our family members don't die in these storms.
I have seen the men walking down the street shooting the rattlesnakes out of the ditches as they were as thick as fleas in houses cars you name it. I have seen people die from disease and infection due to city services shutdown for months.
Have stood in line for hours to come back in town with my family that had to get typhoid shots before you could return to the county. I was a civil defense worker they wanted back in to start supplying you with services. After one storm I had thirty one people living in my home as thiers didn't exsist any longer. They were stupid industry workers as well.
I read somewhere the average American's IQ is 90 or below bingo we have a winner.
Why don't you address the whole post rather than selective. Lets deal with those extravagant houses that have been destroyed with every storm and the same owner builds back and cries the blues while taking hand outs. Meanwhile insurance costs go up for one and all.
Have you ever built a barn or holding pen or your personal home in a flood plain? If you did and they got wrecked or destroyed you got what you deserved-if you knew the area was flood prone.
You know what was really crazy about Katrina was people blaming bush because they did not get out or because the mayor that was calling for it to be a CHOCOLATE CITY once again. This guy was so stupid he let the buses get destroyed rather than removing citizens on them.
THESE areas you choose to work in who made you live there after the first storm? I been dog bit before but never by the same dog twice. Ignorant, dumb or stupid all have their applications.
I am ignorant of many things as i do not know anywhere near everything there is to know.
Now the word dumb deals with ones IQ and not willing to get bit by the same dog twice i think i am not dumb. to YOU I AM DUMB BECAUSE I TYPE SOMETHING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU BELEIVE OR WISH TO HEAR. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINIONS JUST LIKE I AM.
STUPIDITY IS knowing the consequences of something and doing it anyhow. There are even consequences here voice a opinion other than a yes man one and be prepared to have the name calling start. To me to voice a different opinion while knowing the consequences is not stupid. Rather i try to not let people dictate what i say.
I have exercised my share of stupidity in life. But one way i will not be stupid is to try and demean you because you share a different opinion or because you choose to try and make a difference of opinion personal. I hope you feel better by making the IQ reference because you sure did not bother me with it.
Now why not answer about those people that keep building them beach houses back only to loose them again? Or have you ever built facilities in a flood prone area?
Let me see idf i can put it in farmer cattlman rancher terms. When anyone knows a bull throws monster type cow killin calves and they use him anyhow they were not dumb or ignorant just plain old stupid.
Again i have messed up my share but i do try to learn from my stupidity.