Now that my lower back is killing me from shoveling 130 feet of driveway, I thought I would think about 2008 White Death in terms of Katrina.
In preparation of White Death 2008 did Gordon and Mrs. Gekko
1) Leave town for a few days to avoid the mess.
2) Drive down to the nearest stadium and wait to be let in.
3) Buy a boat load of groceries in anticipation of being walled in for a few days
4) Sit on our fat asses and waited for the inevitable.
Once the White Death started rolling in on Friday night did we
1) Leave town for a few days to avoid the mess.
2) Drive down to the nearest stadium and wait to be let in.
3) Buy a boat load of groceries in anticipation of being wall in for a few days
4) Start shoveling knowing we're going to be in deep doo doo.
On Saturday morning, with about 5 inches of snow on the ground and a report for about 10 inches more, did we
1) Leave town for a few days to avoid the mess.
2) Go to our roof waiting for the National Guard to come get us.
3) Call CNN to get a reporter over so we could blame Bush for not having us ready for the snow.
4) Go to work like we were scheduled to do.
When Gordon got home around 11:00 he found his neighbor's car was suck in a mud hole, did he
1) Bitch about how global warming was the cause of this.
2) Bitch about how George Bush was responsible for global warming.
3) With about 30 people standing around, bitch to the CNN reporter about how we were stranded (even though the reporter managed to get in).
4) Actually helped push his car out of the rut.
By 3:00, with now, well over a foot of snow on the ground, did the Gekko's
1) Put a fat suit on, went over to the CNN cameras to tell them how we were starving to death.
2) Decided to throw a brick through the neighbors window and steal their TV (it is a nice one).
3) Waited for the mayor to release 400 school buses buried in snow to take us somewhere.
4) Started shoveling
I've been lobbying Mrs Gekko for a small tractor for these kind of shoveling issues, but I think I'll just wait for our FEMA check to pay for it.
3 comments:
I was thinking the same thing. Should I shovel the driveway, or wait for Fed assistance?
I'm holding out for a trailer in Florida and some walking around cash from FEMA.
The Katrina situation is a joke. A city below sea level run by democrats in a state run by democrats complain that the laws of physics (that water seeks the lowest point) are republicans' fault.
Then the citizens who lost their homes sit in governmet funded trailers and complain that the government funded rebuilding process is too slow because they haven't hired enough labor. And then in the same breath they complain that there are not enough jobs available.
Meanwhile, there have been many tragedies in predominantly red states since. They have come along, the people have rebuilt, and gotten on with their lives. There has been little reporting of such events because the response of the people in those states was to roll up their sleeves and solve their own problems rather than wait for a faceless, compassionless, socialist, federal bureaucracy to tell everyone else to do it for them.
This is not an indictment of the victims of Katrina. It's an indictment of a system that has created false hope for them that government is capable of solving their problems.
The New Orleans democrat government sat on a timebomb for 50years and instead of fortifying levies, produced nothing but fingerpointing at republicans and only after their city was destroyed. And these are the people we should bank the future od our children on? WAKE UP America!!!
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