Flooding

When Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, Democrats everywhere were quick to blame President Bush. He has become the punching bag for our frustrated country. But the problem New Orleans residents faced was NOT President Bush's fault. He sprung to action and offered help to Governor Blanco early. She said she needed 24 hours to think about it. What's to think about? She has residents who can't get out and the flood waters are consuming the city, the criminal element that has always consumed that city was raping, pillaging, and plundering while she was thinking. We are a democracy and the President can't go swooping and taking over the authority over a state.....although I wish he could have because President Bush would have done a MUCH better job.

Well it has been over a year since Katrina hit New Orleans and of course people down there still blame President Bush. But who is to blame for what the flooding in St. Landry Parish last week? The blame game is rampant. Residents say the canals are always stopped up with trash and debris, as are ditches. Parish government officials say it isn't their district, even though the flooding affects their residents tremendously. Last week people had water in their cars and homes. The schools were shut down. This isn't a new problem because I went to high school in Opleousas, which is the parish seat, and I can remember leaving school to go to my job at McDonald's and going down a street that had a casket floating down the road from the cemetery down the street. It happened often. It was especially creepy for me who has never been fond of anything related to death and dead people.

According to the residents, they have been complaining to the parish officials for years to help with the flooding and got the same response....it isn't our problem. Are we supposed to believe that Governor Blanco didn't know about the flooding problem in St. Landry Parish? Whether she knew or not, it just goes to show how effective she is. Louisiana suffered for years under the leadership of Edwin Edwards. He was and always will be the same type of disgrace to Louisiana that Bill Clinton was to our country as both "men" totally lack morals or character. Louisiana needs a champion to stand up for the little guy and not just worry about it's tourist attraction, New Orleans.

New Orleans has gotten alot of attention because of what the residents have gone through. But that's where the press focuses its attention. Right now, I feel more sorry for the rest of Louisiana that have had to accept the criminal element that escaped from New Orleans and is now reigning terror over the rest of the state. Opelousas had its own problems before Katrina but add New Orleans criminals to the criminals that were already taking over the city and I'm scared for my mom to go to Wal-Mart anymore. It just isn't safe.

Why is it that only the local press in Opelousas is talking about how ineffective Governor Blanco is being? The answer is simple. The liberal press wants to make sure we continue to blame President Bush for Katrina so that the Democrats can once again take over the White House. Well I'm saying it loud and clear for all of my readers, Governor Blanco was to blame for not getting the people out of New Orleans while hundreds of buses at on the streets flooding as citizens drowned. That was NOT President Bush. And it is once again Governor Blanco to blame for not doing something about the flooding in St. Landry Parish as well. If the local level won't do anything, it is her job to crack the whip but maybe she is still thinking????

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