Katrina vs Iowa: Strong Contrast

There’s an interesting email going around lately. I don’t know the origin, but the message is spot on and should be considered by all.

  • As you watch the coverage of the flooding in the Midwest, take notice of the following…
  • There are no farmers running around with stolen high-end tennis shoes and big screen plasma TVs or wading through water holding stolen liquor over their heads. Have there been reports of looting at all?
  • They’re not yelling “Where’s Bush?”, “Where’s FEMA?,  Where’s my check?”, or  “Why isn’t the government out here saving me and my farm?”
  • Likewise, I’ve also noticed there are no reports of any other country coming to help or sending aid.
  • Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
  • Where is all the media asking the “tough questions” about why the federal government hasn’t solved the problem, and asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
  • Why isn’t the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
  • When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
  • Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
  • When will we hear Iowa Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a “vanilla” Iowa, because that’s the way God wants it?
  • Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?
  • Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?
  • How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?

It’s hard to look the facts in the face for some, but the facts are the facts and nothing changes until people face them. And it goes to show how helpless people get when they aren’t expected to be self-sufficient.

One comment on “Katrina vs Iowa: Strong Contrast

  1. Grant July 17, 2008 9:01 pm

    You can be helped, or you can help yourself. Or better yet, help yourself and allow others to help. Dependence is immature and very damming. In other words, not very enjoyable. Interdependence is the highest level of maturity. Which was Iowa and which was New Orleans? This is all thanks to liberals who think they have all the answers and will take care of everything, as if the rest of us are incompetent and unable to make our own way. After decades of human husbandry by the liberals how could we expect anything less from human cattle in New Orleans?

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