ScrewyOldDame
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
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Post by ScrewyOldDame on Sept 8, 2005 21:50:16 GMT -5
In Socials E we have been discussing in depth the hurricane- well, as much in depth as we Canadian Islanders can get - and ghone over copious amounts of video footage and I can't help but fail to comprehend the complete panic of the families. If made me just sick hearing all the screaming. I can't imagine my hone flooded to the attic. Oh, it's just awful:'(.
One of many questions I have is: Why were the levees built so badly?
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Post by pitbulllady on Sept 9, 2005 5:51:42 GMT -5
The levees have been there since the Great Flood of 1927, with little in the way of repairs or renovations. Everyone KNEW that they really should have done it, and there was a plan to shore them up and make them higher, but budget cuts in recent years put that plan on the back-burner. Now, as they say, hind-sight is 20/20.
pitbulllady
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 9, 2005 10:51:49 GMT -5
It's true that the hurricane can't be blamed on Bush, but I do, in a sense, understand that some of the people who have been affected badly by it all and didn't recieve immediate help would want to blame it on someone, since I guess their anger is going undigested, and taking it out on a particular person is easier than just blaming it on nature. I'm not saying that it IS Bush's fault, just that there are reasons for people blaming him.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 9, 2005 14:14:54 GMT -5
Umm hmm...
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ScrewyOldDame
Randall's Head Servant (300-799)
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
Posts: 402
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Post by ScrewyOldDame on Sept 10, 2005 15:40:24 GMT -5
I agree, Lizzie. ;D Smartie Pantie! * That seems kind of common sense to do some** sort of renovation after eighty odd years. That is the major problem with government as I see it, there are so many people and yet "common sense" things get pushed to the backburner, as you said.
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 12, 2005 12:32:36 GMT -5
Yeeeeep.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 12, 2005 15:10:15 GMT -5
Hardly anybody has common sense. From the government workers to even criminals.
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 15, 2005 12:12:55 GMT -5
I guess it's usually the case that anyone who works in affiliation with the government probably has the least common sense. ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 15, 2005 14:38:04 GMT -5
Well....the public government anyway....
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 17, 2005 7:47:52 GMT -5
Well, that's the only one I'VE heard of.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 17, 2005 9:57:15 GMT -5
^_^
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 22, 2005 10:40:16 GMT -5
ANARCHY!!! WHOO!!! ;D
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 22, 2005 13:56:45 GMT -5
Hmph...
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 23, 2005 11:33:38 GMT -5
Actually, without those little spurts of anarchy here and there around the world, people would never realise how important the government really is.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 23, 2005 11:52:30 GMT -5
Pfft...
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