Watch this Guy get fired for speaking the truth
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:56
This from the Denver Post:
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the central part of Colorado after todays snowstorm.
Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:George Bush did not come.FEMA did nothing.No one howled for the federal government.No one blamed the federal 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.Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the federal government do something.Nobody expected the federal government to do anything, either.No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action Fed. to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 42 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate." It does seem that way, at least to me.I hope this gets passed on.Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living.
2 comments:
Odd how the fact that New Orleans is below sea level filtered out all of the people who value self sufficiency.
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The cities and counties have asked the feds for help and they did in fact get two emergency declarations. FEMA will be giving them money.
I think that there are two key differences.
The first is what was already pointed out. More people in the area were prepared and they don't wait or feel they need the feds help. Im sure if you get into the Denver area there are plenty with the same attitudes of those in New Orleans.
The second, Colorado's emergency management program is 100x better then Louisiana's. Colorado had plans in place and they followed those plans. Many of the things that people in New Orleans were crying about should have been done by the State who dragged their feet and continue to do so in the rebuilding process.
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