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Sep 05, 2005 00:31

ughhh, I am so tired of listening to people complain about there not being enough help directed towards new orleans ( Read more... )

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eat_my_basil September 5 2005, 16:12:28 UTC
george bush doesn't care about black people.

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rachel_has_a_lj September 6 2005, 02:31:58 UTC
oh kanye west.

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davissuave September 7 2005, 21:15:02 UTC
i saw that on MTV yesterday

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kissmeimalyssa September 5 2005, 19:12:27 UTC
here here rachel!

i love you oh so much!

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rachel_has_a_lj September 6 2005, 02:33:06 UTC
<333
you make me feel alright when I get pissed.

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kissmeimalyssa September 24 2005, 20:04:44 UTC
yay!

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jhoule September 5 2005, 19:25:35 UTC
Rachel Thompson is pretty much the greatest person in the universe.

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divideby September 5 2005, 19:35:30 UTC
You can donate as much money as you want, but the fact of the matter is this catastrophe is TERRIBLY mismanaged. The money can and will directly help people, but people need to be held responsible for this. We have an entire angency that is supposed to deal with emergencies and disasters, yet it took 5 days to get help down there? It takes 3 days for people to die from no water. Thousands of lives are being lost still because of mismanagement. It took 3 days to get help to tsunami victims from the US ( ... )

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rachel_has_a_lj September 6 2005, 02:50:44 UTC
I get where you're coming from, and why it's so frustrating, but I don't think that this is a time for finger-pointing ( ... )

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divideby September 6 2005, 03:20:44 UTC
Naw you're not pissing me off!

But the reason that the united states has done well thus far is because people put aside their politics and debated over who would do a better job at whatever. politicians these days do not care about what is best for the majority of the poeple or country, they just care about getting re-elected..

as far as them not turning their back on us.. that's exactly what bush did in new orleans. when he landed, all aircraft were ordered to land- supplies waited on aircraft carriers and on land, and people were not getting rescued. Literally, there are accounts of people reporting Bush in the area "helping out" people during the newscast but when the cameras were off, the trucks and supplies literally left leaving the people with nothing again.

and as much as it would seem nice to be able to have supplies at the ready the minute a major tragedy like this happens, it's just not realistic. it takes time to collect supplies, to get it to the location, to get it to all the people in the wreckage.There is an entire ( ... )

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davissuave September 6 2005, 02:23:30 UTC
yea, people are hypocrites

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