 masbury says: top priority getting financial assistance for living expenses I'm just wondering if anyone is going to make the comment of "Look at all those white people looking for government to solve their problems, it's not like they didn't know the river was going to be rising". FEMA and most government departments are a joke [FDA comes to mind] after 8 years of Bush and company. Update: watched the evening news tonight, which featured a woman who stood in line at a FEMA station, outdoors, in the hot sun, from early this morning till late this afternoon, hoping to find out if her living expense assistance had arrived. Then a storm came and they closed the station and sent people home without knowing. In the interview, the FEMA rep said they really didn't know when the promised financial assistance would be available. Yessir, that smaller government looks like the way to go. Earth dams are like government, they can only go so far. To depend on an earth dam like that, to me, is just crazy. We need to get these people up and out of this area and move them somewhere else. I'm sure that's partly right. To be fair, though, some of the flooding was beyond the 500-year flood plain. No one ever thought it possible. FEMA did a good job helping our community after the 93 flood in Iowa. The Clinton years Just want to point out that I am not insensitive to Iowans plight. I was just expressing a contrast in treatment of individuals in disaster zones comprised of different ethnic demographics. I have lived in river cities and the river is a wonderful part of the draw to those communities. Someone else posted a clip that commented on the fact that human development is altering the ability of rivers and the surrounding terrain to absorb excess rainfall as was once possible. I hope Iowans and others suffering is kept at a minimum. A new executive branch in Washington D.C. would go a long way to fixing the FEMA mess. I think that you will find that Iowans know what you mean Bobby R. There were many dozens of levies that failed in New Orleans compared to a few a day now. The response to their post-hurricane plight was sinfully anemic. Although I live in Minnesota now, I am always forever proud of my home state, especially the more I learn as an adult. The people are generally reasonable, educated, civics-oriented. It was a Cedar Rapids jury that saw through the feds case against the Oglala men on trial for the killing of federal agents on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1975. It was Iowa that got the ball rolling on Obama's candidacy. In my opinion, the educational standards that Iowa holds help it to h... A brother of mine lived in Minneapolis for a number of years and had nothing but the greatest of praise for both the city and the state. A professor of mine hailed from Iowa and pointed out its non-biased and accepting nature as revealed in several studies. I guess who I am really referring to are people like my conservative cousins who send me emails about Katrina victims looking for hand outs and how others in different states (in this case Kansas) never have to ask for Federal assistance, they take care of there own (until the tornado wipes out there town which they have known was a possibility all their lives). No jabs at Iowans were intended. Recently joined a company that has a si... |
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