Katrina victim means never having to say "thank you"

President Bush visited New Orleans (NO) yesterday to commemorate the second anniversary of Katrina. That’s alright I suppose, but there are a few things about NO that make me go hmmmmmm.

Katrina victims live in a FEMA trailer for 2 years and bitch because nobody has built them a new home. And where do want that new home built? They and the Democrat Party want it right back where it was on the flood plain six feet below sea level.

The most over used words before, during and since the whole disaster are "government failure". Yeah well duh. Conservatives have been noting that phenomenon for 60 years. Libs only get it when their most reliable voting block in Louisiana, the 9th ward, is under water. These are the very people Dems have raised to look toward government for the solution to all of their problems. Democrats have never had an interest in weaning the 9th ward from their dependence on government, less they become self-sufficient and therefore suspicious of the party of tax and spend. So when Mother Nature had a fit two years ago, the residents of the 9th ward huddled in their own feces inside the Superdome or stood on the roofs of their houses with signs that read “help me” waiting for the government to step in.

The most under used words in NO are "thank you." The US tax payer has dumped -wasted in mind- billions of dollars in NO. There are the FEMA trailers, the famous $2,000 debit cards, Coast Guard rescue, billions of tax dollars, billions more in charity etc., etc. that have poured into NO. The reaction of LA politicians in general and citizens of NO in particular by and large has been one of contempt. They whine because the 9th ward still looks like a war zone. We still have National Guard troops patrolling the crime ridden streets of NO. When Gen. Petraeus comes to talk about the surge in Iraq, some bright guy ought to ask when we can expect to start bringing the troops home from the surge in NO.

NO is bowl most of which is six feet below sea level. It sits right on the coast and that bowl gets deeper everyday. When Mother Nature gets the urge, she'll fill that bowl with sea water and no amount of concrete, dirt and gas powered pumps will prevent it from happening. I find it odd that the only places that don't flood in NO are the ones settled hundreds of years ago by people with nothing more than a surveyor’s chain and theadolite to determine the safest place.

Today we go in with our super computers, cement trucks, dump trucks, and huge pumps to build houses in the swamp. Better to have a reliably Democrat stronghold than a safe place to live. Then Libs are surprised when the area floods. They see their Democrat base of low income, low education minos spread to the winds and demand that uncle rebuild in the same place. It's like watching the dog's tail knock a glass of wine off the coffee table onto the carpet every night for week and never saying, hey move your wine before Bosco comes in and spills it.