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Friday, August 31, 2007
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
It's Time To Get Over Katrina Already
by John Hawkins
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"Oh, but what about the poor government response to Katrina?" What about it? It's over and done with and it's not as if Karl Rove launched the hurricane at New Orleans with his Vast Right Wing Conspiracy weather machine. It was an act of God. It happens all the time, all over the United States, and all over the world.

Moreover, look at Ray Nagin. This guy's hurricane strategy went something like this,

"Go to the Superdome if there's an emergency! There's no food, water, or doctors there, but what could go wrong? We could bus people out of here, but we left all the buses on a flood plain! Now, all the hard work is done and all I have to do is sit back and wait for my ‘Mayor Of The Year’ award for doing such a great job handling the crisis!"

Believe it or not, Mr. "Chocolate City" is also encouraging people to rebuild in the same areas that flooded before, even though everybody knows another hit from a Katrina-sized storm would just submerge the city again.

Yet despite the fact that Nagin is to competence what Paris Hilton is to chastity, the citizens of New Orleans saw fit to re-elect him as mayor. So, why should the rest of America get all upset about how Katrina was handled when the people of New Orleans were so unconcerned about it that they brought back the man who was primarily responsible for it?

For the citizens and former citizens of New Orleans who've already moved on with your lives the best you can, God bless you and best of luck to you. But, for the rest of the Katrina victims who are still complaining that America has "forgotten me" two years later, here's a piece of advice: it's time to get over Katrina already.

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Poor, poor Victims...
Poor, poor New Orleans... Hmmm, if I have sufficient notice (they did), I would pack up my family and leave. I would have done so early on. Call it personal responsibility, but MY family means that much to me. I guess that is why I'll never put my family in that situation. I told an ex-brother-in-law that same thing. He laughed at me! I didn't realize what he knew. All you have to do is survive and you're fixed for life (at the gov't teat). No, I just try to do the right thing and I'll pay for it... taxes at work, what a joke. I still don't see the accountability of the state officials, you know, using the fed dollars to maintain the levees... why do that when you can spend it on pretty water fountains and other unneeded things... Louisiana has not changed a bit since I've lived there and I don't expect it to. Why should it when it's easier to live off the hard-working taxpayers? Call me insensitive or whatever term you'd like.

I remember this ...
We were glued to the TV set as Katrina roared in to NO. But what I remember most is the black man who was walking across the bridge from the Dome saying to anyone who would listen, "This is the Big Easy. This isn't supposed to happen here! This is the Big Easy." He continued to moan and groan and all I could think of was that he was simply a microcosym of what was and still is the biggest fault of the poorer people in NO -"This isn't supposed to be happening to us!" I'm with the majority of the bloggers who say that it is time to move on and begin to grow up, get your education and marry before having babies.
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