I read this, though my head was going to explode, like Lewis Black's.

[dave123williams]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008860

"The Tragedy of New Orleans: Katrina spending is five times larger than past disasters."

...as if the tragedy of what happened there is that too much money has been spent....grrrrrr.

and then I had to reply:


Of course! Your article makes so much sense! But you missed the most important part...it's everything you said, PLUS the fact that nobody could have possibly anticipated the storm in the first place!

It's so clear to me now! The solution is to treat Louisiana with the same contempt normally reserved for emerging nations!

The free market will solve everything! How could I not have seen that?!

Why didn't this article appear sooner? You guys are SO smart. This will surely make a difference; almost as much as your volunteer work down there....people at the Opinionjournal are directly involved in helping people down there, right? Of course you are!

Thank God people with your well-reasoned philosophy are in charge of the Federal Government! I mean, who better to run Government during a crisis than the people who hate it most? Right?

We're *so* lucky to have you guys as the beacon for racial equality and economic justice in the nation, too. Perhaps you could distribute a copy of this article to every welfarequeen-high-tax-corruption-soaked-macaca you've identified in researching this piece. I mean, that's what you're identifying as the underlying problem, right?

Of course you are.

Private insurers have paid out 80% of what they're saying they're going to. Good to see that the fine, hardworking and famously un-greedy insurance industry has a voice here!

Yay free speech!

Wow. Thank Goodness the Opinionjournal has led me to the light. God bless you, Opinionjournal.

You put lipstick on a pig almost as well as the Whitehouse press flacks that set up the photo op today!

God bless you! You do the Lords work!

Thank you, Opinionjournal! Thank you! New Orleans will SURELY bounce back, now that YOU'VE chimed in with this sage approach!

[xchrom]

1. well done! n/t

[converted_democrat]

2. Nice post.. n/t

[FlavaKreemSnak]

3. The problem is it is not being spent helping the people

You always see where this or that company or something raised these huge amounts of money and sent it to the Katrina victims but then you also see articles and hear from people who are there about all these people who still don't have anywhere to live and haven't gotten anything, or not enough to help them, so what I don't ever understand is when these companies talk about how much they raised for Katrina victims who did they give it to? There hasn't really been anybody walking around the streets especially in the low income neighborhoods handing people money to build a new house. I guess if anybody did that it would be considered terrorism because of Hezbollah doing that in Lebanon. So yes there has been a lot of money sent down there but who did it get sent to?

[ClintonTyree]

4. "Congress has approved $122.5 billion for the Gulf Region"........

"approved" being the key word here. How much of that $122.5 billion has actually filtered down to the "Gulf Region"? And how much of THAT has been filtered into the pockets of "free market", White House connected companies that have done little or nothing to alleviate the suffering in that area?

The WSJ. You can always count on them to carry the bush administration's water and complain about the cost of helping middle and lower class people. After all, that's THEIR money we're talking about here. Money that should be heading to the big casino on Wall Street so they can steal it and redistribute it to the rich.

Fuck the Wall Street Journal and every rich, greedy bastard that considers it their bible. :grr:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. Disgraceful

Corporo-fascist apologia laced with racist urban myths. For that special touch! Isn't that special :sarcasm:

Good response :thumbsup: