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Gary Scannevin (aka gman0046) [ View ] [ gman0046@aol.com ] [ Car Ads ] [ Blogs ] Anchorage, Kentucky (502) 245-9085

Where are all the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping folks affected by the floods? Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the Federal Government hasn't solved the problem? 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 Des Moines? Where is Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks? Where are all the looters stealing high end tennis shoes and big screen TV's? When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say he wants to rebuild a 'Vanilla' Iowa, because God wants it? Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism? Where are the people declaring George Bush hates white rural people? How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again? MAKES YOU THINK

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Posted by 31tudor  -  06/27/2008 12:46 PM Seems to me that the people in Iowa and Missouri are more of the type to help themselves than we saw in New Orleans. I don't intend to demean the people in NO, just that I see a different reaction from those in Iowa and Missouri. Doesn't seem these people are demanding handouts, they're just taking care of things the best they know how. Eric Hibbs [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] St. George, Utah Charter Member since January 2002   Posted by cr55  -  06/27/2008 12:51 PM Well said!.. Not everybody expects and demands a handout.......CR I thought that I knew it all , but.. [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] dover, Delaware   Posted by ol bear  -  06/27/2008 04:18 PM G MANZ RIGHT ,,,,,,,, SOME HOW DOESNT SEEM FAIR THAT THERES NO MEDIA FRENZY . THE RESOURSES AND WORK ETHIC DIFFER IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY ,,, SEEMS OBVIOUS,,,,, GOOD CALL G MAN ,, OL BEAR OL BEAR [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] crown point, Indiana   Posted by oilmanpat  -  06/27/2008 05:26 PM We're just across the Mississippi in Illinois on the southern corner of Iowa. Anybody have any need for some bairly damp soybeans? oilmanpat [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Warsaw, Illinois Charter Member since August 2007   Posted by dwinspector21  -  06/27/2008 09:33 PM God Bless you all Pat. The Baptist mens team from our area is on the way....along with several thousand others.....to help you all any way we can. We're praying for you! BTW......we were in N.O. also...my kid was there 6 weeks......way different stuff! dwinspector21 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Kodak, Tennessee   Posted by oilmanpat  -  06/27/2008 10:24 PM In reality there are few people in our town that are out of thier homes. Maybe 2or3 families. The Hunt drainage District just on the south edge of town is underwater but the farmers that moved back after 1993 have again relocated to higher ground. There is not much that can be done until the water receides. It is going down but will take some time. If only we could figure a way to turn off the rain that falls to our north. I have included some pics of the rock that was added in order to travel into Iowa across the bridge to go to work. The last pic is of the drainage district just prior to the levi breaking. oilmanpat [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Warsaw, Illinois Charter Member since August 2007   Posted by orphans2  -  06/29/2008 11:34 AM Gary, I sense you knew the answers to your questions before you wrote them. People in the midwest are the fabric of this nation, they don't walk areound with their hands out, unless it is to grab a sandbag or a shovel. They will take charity as it is offered but they won't go begging or demanding it. NO was a different matter. It wasn't so much the population demanding Fed help as it was the politicians who for the most part, caused most of the misery to begin with. It was the state and local politicians who failed to respond to the coming emergency and not the Feds or Bush. Hell you never heard half of the whining from the people in Mississippi as you did from the NO people. Some people know how to pick themselves up and get going, while others have been taught to just wait until someone comes to help you up As to the celebrities, I'd like to see more than a few of them fall off a levee and disappear under the muddy water. orphans2 [ View ] [ Email ] [ Blogs ] [ Car Ads ] Stewartstown, Pennsylvannia Charter Member since November 2001

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