A realistic concept in divided America - We have honestly seen this before. It's about Colorado

[Mira]

[gopiscrap]

1. fuck that, we need to do what ever we can to help them

[wandy]

2. This makes the bad assumption that all in Co. are flaming teabaggers..........

Progressive greetings from the Island Republic(s) of Boulder.

[Mira]

6. It makes the assumption that many, too many, in Congress are. n/t

[wandy]

11. On that I can agree.......

I'm just waiting to hear from some of those hurricane pron red states to start with how it's not their responsibility to provide aid.
I am originally from the Southern Tier of NY. Floods are more frequent but.....

1) Their is more warning. If a hurricane is turning inland you know about a few days before it gets nasty.
2) A goodly amount of flood pron areas (not all) have become State or County parks. As I said, floods are more frequent.
3) Over the years considerable effort had been put into flood control such as dams, embankments and such.

Here......

1) Who would have thought. 15+ inches of rain in less than a week. The foothills are basically a high desert. Not that flood control was not addressed. THIS is not typical.
2) This is a heck of a mess out here.

Just hoping that folk on slightly, and I do mean slightly, lower ground come out OK.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. As a social commentary it does strike a cord

Even if for the moment it feels wrong. Suffice to say, I've heard this in the flesh with local major disasters.

[HappyMe]

4. Kind of assuming an awful lot.

No rec from me.

[Mira]

5. Understanding your concern,

I'm remembering the difficulties during Hurricane Sandy,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/eric-cantor-hurricane-sandy-disaster-relief_n_2240628.html

and the heart breaking to listen to verbiage about offsetting aid by cuts elsewhere before it can be agreed to.
Or, I forget who it was, who promised help and then voted against it for reasons of being "fiscally responsible"

These real happenings, not assumptions, are represented in the post I made. Through my admittedly jaundiced eyes.

[HappyMe]

9. Ah okay, I see.

The horrific Can'tor.

[Mira]

12. He certainly is one of those with

blinders,
born either of abysmal stupidity or stubborn willfulness.

[NightWatcher]

7. isn't it the job of Government to make sure there are levees, storm drains, emergency plans?

THIS is why we need "The Government". The Government is not some hypothetical guy in Washington DC. The Government is everything we see and use and work with and for. The Government is roads, traffic lights, firefighters, storm drains, bridges....


Go Pray is what those With tell those Without to go do in lieu of doing anything. The pacification of the stupid, by the powerful.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Thanks, Mira!

One of our 51st State county commishes was quoted in today's newspaper, actually used that hideous phrase about bootstraps. Not surprising, since he sees himself as governor/king of the new state he's proposing. Utter disconnect from rational thinking.

Truth is, the flooding does not discriminate between Democrat and Republican or anything in between. Our shelters are full of people of every political stripe. The meals they are being served are seasoned with the generosity of many anonymous donors, the clothes they have been given come from blue and red, the milk they feed their babies is donated by people who love children, period. In times such as these the "socialist" inclination emerges from people in every social stratum, in spite of the institutionalized unkindness that has come to be the badge of the political right.

As I write this National Guard helicopters are overhead, it sounds like they are going south and east of my location to those areas buried in muck under still flowing floodwaters.

I shamelessly ask DUers to flaunt socialist thinking. If you can, please send a donation to the Red Cross and mark it for Colorado. The need here is very great, and will increase.

Thank you.

And thank you, Mira, for the phenomenal graphic!!!

[PowerToThePeople]

10. Now I understand why Katrina was dealt with the way it was... n/t