Tuesday, February 3, 2015

If Bush’s Hurricane Katrina was Racist, is Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Racist too?

By Elizabeth Nelson

If the accusation is good for the goose, is it also good for the gander? President Bush’s slow response time for Hurricane Katrina victims, according to Senator Obama was “racism.” 
   
Remember the video surfaced of then Senator Obama in 2007 suggesting Bush’s response racism slowed aid to post-Katrina New Orleans. Not only is he racially divisive, but he was pandering to his base with a black dialect and accent that is unnatural to his “every day” speech.  

However pandering Senator Obama left some key facts out, as he would later find out would be his pattern when addressing his sheeple. What Obama neglected to tell the people, Bush had already promised New Orleans 7 billion with no strings attached, to rebuild, and a life of omission is still a lie, but we’re used to that by now. 



“When 9/11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act. … And that was the right thing to do,” he tells the crowd at Hampton University in Virginia. “When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, 'Look at this devastation.

We don't expect you to come up with your own money. Here, here's the money to rebuild. We're not going wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.'  Obviously the bullet hasn’t been removed and this government doesn’t care about the people in New Orleans."

So, would “racism” also be a factor, in Obama's slow response in rebuilding and helping the helpless and continued homeless victims of Hurricane Sandy? What, you thought #whitepriveledge was real and these people would instantly have their homes rebuilt? Oh no, 2 years later and these families are still fighting to get their lives back.  

A Bush administration rebuilt New Orleans, even with a divided Government and a divisive Senator Obama giving him hell along the way.

The living city carries the dead city, places where nearly 1,000 people perished, and many thousands more were too broke or broken to make it back. Most of the Lower Ninth Ward and chunks of New Orleans East, near Lake Pontchartrain, are still ghost towns. True, New Orleans pre-K had deep poverty and rolling corruption scandals. The city was also a strategic port, a cultural diamond, and nowhere near bankruptcy.

The levees failed because of shoddy maintenance by a federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. President George W. Bush and enough Republicans joined Democrats in the $7.5-billion Road Home program to give under-insured homeowners and businesses a leg up. A class-action lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers lost on appeal; but the corps has spent $15 billion to date on a major upgrade of the levees. Read more Daily Beast

Mr. Obama, if Bush’s “20-month” slow reaction time to Hurricane Katrina was “racially motivated,” and New Orleans is thriving, even with fewer people and more restaurants. I’ve even seen the truth of that first hand. So, why are over 3 thousand Hurricane Sandy victims still homeless, two years later?  Are they not poor enough, or is their skin color not the right shade for you? You don’t even make it easy to get a grant; you put the bullet IN them, instead of “removing the bullet.”
Everyone around the country was devastated just watching the horror of the magnitude and destruction of this storm, when it happened, but now it and its victims have been forgotten:

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander? Why are these “rich white folk” still out of their homes, Mr. Obama. If they were black and broke, would they be warm&happy now?
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Several Staten Island homeowners expressed their frustrations over Hurricane Sandy relief efforts during a public meeting Tuesday evening,even as the city announced it had exceeded Mayor Bill de Blasio's goals onstorm reconstruction for the year.

Oh, but for the red tape for grant money
During Tuesday's forum, Staten Islanders had the chance to tell the city how to spend nearly $1 billion in federal Hurricane Sandy relief money. (Staten Island Advance/Ryan Lavis) "We're trying to work with the city 100 percent, but the fact is that there are so many people still not in their homes," said Tom Consulo, a storm victim from Midland Beach. Read more siLive Nonsense and over regulations that Katrina New Orleans victims didn’t have to deal with, because the Bush administration stayed on top of it.


Yet, DeBlasio has a “reason for sitting on money.” To be fair, is it enough to get everyone into their home, probably not, but it’s enough to get some into their home and that’s worth it, isn’t it?
"Everybody thinks a year later, we're New York and ... everybody's fine and dandy. No, it isn't," says Scott McGrath, who lives across the street. "It's real out there. It's still a lot of people needing help." ~ Samantha Langello, homeless, read more of her The Slow, Uneven Rebuilding After Superstorm Sandy story at NPR

When so many are out of their homes, frustration only mounts at the snail’s pace and then the money spent to cancel rebuilding efforts.

On @wnyc right now NJ public has a right to know why $10M dollars was spent to end #sandy rebuild contract? @boyleing_points @Bobmagic01 NY?

At least someone else understands that this is a disastrous rebuild, by a disaster of a presidential administration. Drop the ball and this is what you get.
Now, there will be some that will try to exonerate Obama and blame (the Democrat at the time) Congress. However, don’t even start that crap with me, not when Senator Obama himself blamed Bush, you can’t have it both ways libshi*s, blame a “racist” Bush for slow response times in Katrina, and not blame Obama for doing the same and leaving these people and their family homeless. 

 Especially when Obama, like Clinton, claim “owning a home” isn't just part of “the American Dream” but “a Right.” I guess, to paraphrase 2007 Senator Obama, “this government doesn’t care about the people in New York and Jersey," just as they didn't care about the "people in New Orleans."  Can't have it both ways.  Can't dish it out, if you aren't prepared to take the same treatment returned, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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