Michael Moore Movie and Katrina - Page 8

I, too, find that disturbing and disappointing. I saw an interesting e-mail a week or so ago from a Sri Lankan who found it difficult to comprehend how, when war-torn Sri Lanka experienced devastation through last year's tsunami, victims worked hard to help each other whilst, when N.O. experienced devastation through Katrina, so many victims turned on other victims and those who had come to help.
I don't know if this comparison is fair, or an over-generalisation, but I think that the USA needs to do some detailed investigation of what happened and why. I'm not in a position to apportion blame, and I'm not too sure what purpose it would serve, but there were a number of failures at various levels (including social responsibility of individuals) which need to be understood in order to minimise the risk of similar occurrences in the future. Whilst you cannot prevent hurricanes, I'm sure a lot could be done reduce the risks and the ensuing damage, especially since a lot of the human cost appears to have happened after Katrina had come and gone. Mother Nature, through one hurricane, may have caused more damage to the USA than all the World's terrororists have managed since the word 'terrorism' was first invented.

I would venture a guess that Sri Lanka has no welfare system and that even though most people are very poor, they work for every scrap they get... those that don't, never get the chance to breed... natural selection if you will.

In all seriousness there is some truth in what I just wrote even though it is pretty harsh. I imagine there are a lot of untold stories of people working together to help each other especially outside of NO.

you mean, you would prefer -

"T'was one fair mornin', that I passed Fadder O'Malley's house, when lo and behold and saints preserve us, sure didn't I see from the corner of me eye that old rogue O'Bannion leapin' and jumpin'..................................(continued on page 4598) ?

A matter of priorities...Louisiana chose to support a football team. Build a stadium vice fix the problem. The problem you ask? Fix a city that was built below sea level....In other words...A person who lives in a run down house but drives a lexus.....Mind you, it wasn't the people who made this decision but the STATE and LOCAL Government....

It is worth noting the French quarter of NO - built above sea level remained in tact.
What far sighted and smart people those French are, eh ?

But let me leave you with one other thought - seeing as you cannot provide us with any scientific data except waffle about football stadiums.

The Gross State Product of Virginia is larger than the aggregate totals of Lousiana and Mississippi.
Your state accounts for $326 billion GSP per annum.
Lousiana's ?
80% of Virginia ? nope not even close.
60% of Virginia's ? nope, not close.
How about 42% ? that's right.
Virginia is more than twice as prosperous as Louisiana - and is more prosperous than Lousiana and Mississippi combined.

Yes and Virginia mostly run and vote Republican…(except this Mark Warner dude but still not bad for a democrat) Louisiana run by Democrats. Concerned more about the environment and Football and Mardi Gra revenues than providing a safe place for the people to live….And what is not scientific about Football stadiums…They take money i.e. expenditures, tax dollars, revenue to operate and maintain. The funding for such is documented and supported by financial DATA. Admit it, the leadership in New Orleans and for the greater part of Louisiana is inept!

I think you'll find that the gross income of people in Louisiana is substantially lower than in your State.
Therefore tax income would be lower - therfore there is less revenue for the State to spend.
That's why it (Louisiana) had to ask for additional capital expenditure funding from central goverment.
But as your State generates over TWICE the annual wealth of Lousiana, it's easy to criticise.

I am sure football is a money spinner - for footballers that is.

I'd say the problem resided with a man who falsified his CV to get a job which
no amount of work experience as an Arabian Horse Association minion was suitable for in the first place.
(Then again, he was a Bush crony, eh ?????????????)

Thanks for making my point..Virginia is so wealthy yet CAN’T AFFORD A FOOTBALL TEAM Like I said…boils down to local choices not those of the Federal Government…You still can’t conceive how our system works here so I understand how you can be so misguided…

Once again, you are talking about a Federal official who DIDN’T vote for sports over HIGHER GROUND…

That's the stuff I'm talking about.

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Average income for Florida...........33,000
Average income for Virginia..........35,000
Average income for Louisiana........32,000

yes the income is SUBSTANTIALLY less than those other states

Tell me Lim WHY would a privately held sports team... The New Orleans Saints chose to locate their team in a city of poverty stricken citizens. I just don't understand how poverty stricken citizens can afford to regularly sellout the Superdome for Saints football games. Hey Lim..how can people living in poverty afford to regularly go to football games?

Your figures are wrong.

If you look at the GSP figure (produced by your own government) you'll see the following :

Virginia $326b (2004)
Louisiana $157b (2004)
Mississippi $138b (2004).

Check yer goverment website - tis all there.

I've no idea.


But here's a thought.
Several countries use sport and sporting events to regenerate economic activity in areas/regions.

Take ?
Take Athens in Greece, not Georgia.
By staging the 2004 Olympic Games : Athens managed to gnerate huge infrastructural development which will enhance the economic growth of that
relatively impoverished region.

or take Britain, Manchester : their bid for the Commonwealth Games generated
massive infrastructural investment and development which has added hugely to the economic activity of North West England.

Building large infrastructures in locations where there is no indigenous activity or no indigenous economic activity is seen as away of generating employment/income.

You are wrong read my post again. I didn't say GSP..

I know you didn't say GSP.

I'm saying GSP is the measure used for wealth measurement - STATE ON STATE.