How about the real reason why most people would not evacuate? Because everything governments say is a lie. Look at the execrable performance of government after Katrina-blocking private parties from bringing in bottled water, throwing elderly people in jail who refused to leave their home, etc. Of course, this doesn’t matter to governments. Why? Because they get paid no matter how poorly they do, because they extract their pay by violence or the threat of violence. Whether you live or die makes no difference to them.
Don’t expect us to pay for haulin’ your sorry butt out of the devastation after Hurricane XXXX comes through. If your going to live in a hurricane prone area you’d better be ready to deal with it. That includes buggin’ out when the wind comes.
NO residents who re-elected Nagin should check out http://www.72hours.org for a good governmental lesson on how to be prepared for a disaster.
I’ll say it again: morons. Learn from history, folks.
In a free country I think people should have the freedom to choose to flee or stay. However, I have to agree, if you stay you do so at your own risk. No heroic (costly) measures will be taken to rescue you. Of course this implies that all the individuals making the decision have access to (and use) good information to make their decisions. I think this is a leap of faith, as many of these people are poor and undereducated. As for the Federal govt. being a Nazi police state just because they choose to force evacuation I don’t see that at all. Don’t forget the people forcing the evacuations are often the same people who will be risking their lives 48 hours later to rescue someone who did not evacuate.
That’s right. Let people take their own risks and deal with any negative consequences. What a novel concept: individual responsibility! But of course, what we have now is just the opposite: special interest group xyz goes crying to government, “if you don’t divert billions of tax dollars our way, society itself will crumble; everyone will start killing everyone else, there will be rioting in the streets, people will start eating babies.”
If 1/3 of them will not evacuate, let them be. If the next 1/3 will not evacuate next year, let them be. If, by the third year, the last 1/3 won’t evacuate, they should all be gone by then & there won’t be a problem!
The great liberal line used for everything they want is “its for the children.” More taxes, heavier regulation, redistributing income, it’s all for the children. Sickening.
After 50 years of Uncle Sam propping up the residents (many of them) of N.O., why is it a surprise they do not have the ability to take care of themselves.
Even wildlife observation areas request that you not feed the animals for fear they will become dependent. What is the difference when it comes to humans?
if the same 1/3 that will not heed the recommendations to evacuate are among the same population that will not purchase flood insurance despite recommendations?
Most likely the third that would not evacuate, do not have resources or are ill and not able to travel. How many people were stranded because they could not find gas to go on or no place to go.
If these future Darwin Award winners insist on staying put, let them; however, make it mandatory that no support personnel then go in to rescue them until the storm is over.
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How about the real reason why most people would not evacuate? Because everything governments say is a lie. Look at the execrable performance of government after Katrina-blocking private parties from bringing in bottled water, throwing elderly people in jail who refused to leave their home, etc. Of course, this doesn’t matter to governments. Why? Because they get paid no matter how poorly they do, because they extract their pay by violence or the threat of violence. Whether you live or die makes no difference to them.
Don’t expect us to pay for haulin’ your sorry butt out of the devastation after Hurricane XXXX comes through. If your going to live in a hurricane prone area you’d better be ready to deal with it. That includes buggin’ out when the wind comes.
NO residents who re-elected Nagin should check out http://www.72hours.org for a good governmental lesson on how to be prepared for a disaster.
I’ll say it again: morons. Learn from history, folks.
In a free country I think people should have the freedom to choose to flee or stay. However, I have to agree, if you stay you do so at your own risk. No heroic (costly) measures will be taken to rescue you. Of course this implies that all the individuals making the decision have access to (and use) good information to make their decisions. I think this is a leap of faith, as many of these people are poor and undereducated. As for the Federal govt. being a Nazi police state just because they choose to force evacuation I don’t see that at all. Don’t forget the people forcing the evacuations are often the same people who will be risking their lives 48 hours later to rescue someone who did not evacuate.
That’s right. Let people take their own risks and deal with any negative consequences. What a novel concept: individual responsibility! But of course, what we have now is just the opposite: special interest group xyz goes crying to government, “if you don’t divert billions of tax dollars our way, society itself will crumble; everyone will start killing everyone else, there will be rioting in the streets, people will start eating babies.”
If 1/3 of them will not evacuate, let them be. If the next 1/3 will not evacuate next year, let them be. If, by the third year, the last 1/3 won’t evacuate, they should all be gone by then & there won’t be a problem!
The great liberal line used for everything they want is “its for the children.” More taxes, heavier regulation, redistributing income, it’s all for the children. Sickening.
After 50 years of Uncle Sam propping up the residents (many of them) of N.O., why is it a surprise they do not have the ability to take care of themselves.
Even wildlife observation areas request that you not feed the animals for fear they will become dependent. What is the difference when it comes to humans?
if the same 1/3 that will not heed the recommendations to evacuate are among the same population that will not purchase flood insurance despite recommendations?
Most likely the third that would not evacuate, do not have resources or are ill and not able to travel. How many people were stranded because they could not find gas to go on or no place to go.
If these future Darwin Award winners insist on staying put, let them; however, make it mandatory that no support personnel then go in to rescue them until the storm is over.