A deeply amusing, and insightful, post at Cassandra's contrasts the disasterous Colorado blizzards with Katrina. For Colorado:
George Bush did not come.This goes on for quite a while, and then praises the state, local, and individual responses that have served so well. Whereas a far more vigorous FEMA response prompted cries that "George Bush hates black people," a far lesser response from FEMA in a predominantly white area has not prompted any such outcry. People didn't expect to be taken care of; they expected to take care of themselves.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV .
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Many of these people are ranchers, whose cattle are in serious danger due to the blizzard. The comments section looks at the situation of the cattlemen and the ranchers, and notes two things of interest. The first is that PETA refused to help feed the cattle.
Colorado governor Bill Owens correctly explained that this is because PETA are "frauds" and "a bunch of losers." He kindly neglected to mention it is also because feeding cattle in the snow is hard, physical work, and PETA is composed of soft city folk who have no taste for that.
The other interesting thing is Cricket's recipe for stuffed tenderloin steaks. Because, um, well, we can't save all the cattle, so...
Good luck to the cattlemen. I trust they were insured against the losses, but watch them go out and risk their necks anyway, rather than watch animals starve and freeze to death. Then, watch the folks in PETA -- who supposedly care about animals -- sit in their heated living rooms, watching the disaster on television, and sniffing disdainfully at any request for help.
It's all Bush's fault. If only Bush didn't hate cowboys, he'd be out there fixing this.
UPDATE: Heh. One of Cassidy's commenters points out that this is one of those emails that's been re-used for several disasters over the years. That, of course, means that there have been multiple disasters without looting... and with FEMA simply providing eventual repayment, in the fullness of time, with local, state and individual responses handling the actual disaster.
It's always amusing to me when these emails are re-used for event after event. I suppose we can't help that these things remain relevant.
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