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Aramondo

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...on the radio this morning about the Presidents speech. Seems the ABC after-speech interview of Katrina evacuees, about ten of them, invited to watch the speech by ABC in the parking lot of the Astrodome in Houston didn't go quite as ABC seemingly expected.

Rptr: What did you think of the Presidents speech? Do you believe him?

Int1: Oh yes. I thought it was a fine speech. Fine speech.

Rptr: Do you actually believe that you'll be going back home, to New Orleans, to your home?

Int1: Yes I do.

Rptr: Why do you believe that?

Int1: Because...because I have faith.

Rptr: What about you. Do you blame the federal government for the slow response?

Int2: No I don't. I blame the city and the state. They should have moved first, before the federal government.

...etc., etc.

Anyone catch anything of interest? I heard Sue Henry, played a clip and read some of the interview. It was excellent. She was right. They were knocked flat on their asses. Ted Koppel, I thought he was going to burst into tears...partly at the answers and partly on the embarassing exasperation on the face and in the voice of the reporter in Houston whose interview turned out to be the exact opposite of the obvious nature of its intent.
 
> ...on the radio this morning about the Presidents speech.
> Seems the ABC after-speech interview of Katrina evacuees,
> about ten of them, invited to watch the speech by ABC in the
> parking lot of the Astrodome in Houston didn't go quite as
> ABC seemingly expected.
>
> Rptr: What did you think of the Presidents speech? Do you
> believe him?
>
> Int1: Oh yes. I thought it was a fine speech. Fine speech.
>
> Rptr: Do you actually believe that you'll be going back
> home, to New Orleans, to your home?
>
> Int1: Yes I do.
>
> Rptr: Why do you believe that?
>
> Int1: Because...because I have faith.


aND THE PEOPLE SAID AMEN

What has amazed me is how the American public is becoming a total handout from the feds. Washington should have done more, gripes every idiot. But that is not how our republic was set up. Thru the course of the history natural clamity has happend and will happen again. There is no way any Government can plan for it.
Not to say that they could have done a beter job after the event. It seems to me many in our indusrty never drove a truck or turned a wrench or lifted more than 100 pounds in one day. I find it to be funny when a reporter has to analize sludge in the Cresent City to find out yup , what a suprise human waste in that mudd. What the hell did you think was in it ice cream!!!! It's like there shocked at the obvious to anyone with half a nogggin myself included.

>
> Rptr: What about you. Do you blame the federal government
> for the slow response?
>
> Int2: No I don't. I blame the city and the state. They
> should have moved first, before the federal government.
>
> ...etc., etc.
>
> Anyone catch anything of interest? I heard Sue Henry, played
> a clip and read some of the interview. It was excellent. She
> was right. They were knocked flat on their asses. Ted
> Koppel, I thought he was going to burst into tears...partly
> at the answers and partly on the embarassing exasperation on
> the face and in the voice of the reporter in Houston whose
> interview turned out to be the exact opposite of the obvious
> nature of its intent.
>
 
> > Rptr: What about you. Do you blame the federal government
> > for the slow response?
> >
> > Int2: No I don't. I blame the city and the state. They
> > should have moved first, before the federal government.
> >
> > ...etc., etc.

I remember my first hurricane flood. At the end of my street, when the rain and wind stopped and the water rose, a local drove a giant dump truck into the affected neighborhood and carted the folks out. Local people helping local people who were in a jam. I don't remember the state or Uncle Sam ever getting involved.
 
> aND THE PEOPLE SAID AMEN
>
> What has amazed me is how the American public is becoming a
> total handout from the feds. Washington should have done
> more, gripes every idiot. But that is not how our republic
> was set up. Thru the course of the history natural clamity
> has happend and will happen again. There is no way any
> Government can plan for it.
> Not to say that they could have done a beter job after the
> event. It seems to me many in our indusrty never drove a
> truck or turned a wrench or lifted more than 100 pounds in
> one day. I find it to be funny when a reporter has to
> analize sludge in the Cresent City to find out yup , what a
> suprise human waste in that mudd. What the hell did you
> think was in it ice cream!!!! It's like there shocked at the
> obvious to anyone with half a nogggin myself included.
>

Wow, no caps, better spelling. Capt spellcheck gets an A!
 
> > > Rptr: What about you. Do you blame the federal
> government
> > > for the slow response?
> > >
> > > Int2: No I don't. I blame the city and the state. They
> > > should have moved first, before the federal government.
> > >
> > > ...etc., etc.
>
> I remember my first hurricane flood. At the end of my
> street, when the rain and wind stopped and the water rose, a
> local drove a giant dump truck into the affected
> neighborhood and carted the folks out. Local people helping
> local people who were in a jam. I don't remember the state
> or Uncle Sam ever getting involved.
>
I don't know how this wound up in a radio thread, but what the hey....
It wasn't until the depression that the federal government began a central role in people's lives. One of the reasons Herbert Hoover did so little to aid people during the early days of the depression, was that he felt that it would have been totally outside of the role of the federal government. It was not that he had no compassion for people, he thought it was illegal. It was unheard of in those days. FDR's changes to make the feds more active in people's lives did not come easy as it was often thought. It was an entirely new role for the national government. Now, less than 100 years later, we have come to expect the feds to fill our every need. Our country was never designed to be that way. Instead of relying on ourselves and those around us, we expect the feds to do it all.
 
This got in a radio thread because it was the topic of conversation on several radio programs in the market on Friday morning.

Regarding the statement below, some say that if you follow the string all the way from one end to the other, that is exactly the reason why so many people were too poor to own a car or access any sort of transportation to get them out of town before the hurricane hit. That IS the problem in a nutshell. Dependency breeds the inability to help oneself by its very nature. When dependency becomes a way of life and suddenly it isn't at the ready at your elbow, the result will likely be disastrous. So you can keep your fingers crossed that depending on big government will work even in matters of life and death, or you can get off your a _ _ and help yourself.


> Instead of relying on ourselves and those around us, we
> expect the feds to do it all.
>
 
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