Enough is enough! Good read. Warning: political rhetoric inside!

[AGirlWithACoupe]

Filed under: U.S. News by Chad Evans at 1:42 pm
Michael Moore: “We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”

As much as I loathe the opportunist Moore and hate above all else calling my fellow countrymen stupid, after reading half the drivel on numerous Liberal blogs this past week, I think Moore may be partially right. He should have said, “We dont know about the way our own government is constructed.”

Michael Moore isn’t exactly the beacon of clean thought himself though as this letter making the rounds on the Bush-hating Left is being praised. You see, to people like Michael Moore and the denizens of the Kool-Aid punch bowl, hurricanes never existed before President Bush declined to sign the Kyoto Accord. If they did exist they certainly were not Category Fives. Levees in New Orleans were just fine and dandy and showed no signs of breaking before five years ago. Above all else, there is no such thing as a local and state government.

President Clinton though noted there were in fact local and state governments and they were the ones responsible for levee control and construction

Continued: http://www.inthebullpen.com/archives/2005/09/04/enough-is-enough

[red95gts]

Very good read!

Unfortunately, the vast majority of America won't take the time to read about it and the media only cares about ratings. Once this is all over, I wonder how many people in this country will still believe this is Dubya's fault?

[browzin]

Informative.

I suspect Moore's emphasis was more on the "enforced" ignorance than the ignorance itself...and the possibility - which he would want to avoid - that some choose to be (or act) ignorant to avoid responsibility.

The moderate sites are usually more my style, but I've found a number of more conservative sites that have presented some very good analysis of the Katrina situation, responses, etc., lately. Michelle Malkin at http://michellemalkin.com/ for one.

I've got my fingers crossed that more Americans will take the time to read through a variety of informational/news venues, weigh the evidence/reports presented, and reach more informed conclusions (notice I'm not "holding my breath" though...).

Sounds like the recent funding decisions in re. levees may have been a moot point...from 60 Minutes (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/05/60minutes/main815179_page2.shtml) via John Cole (http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=5524):
"A Naomi is the man who manages them for the Army Corps of Engineers. He was probably the first to understand what was about to happen to New Orleans.

"Flood walls are unforgiving. They’re either there or they’re not," Naomi says.

The walls were designed in 1965 to withstand a Category 3 storm. Category 4 Katrina pushed her surge over the top.

"It just was overtopped and the water started pouring over the support for the flood wall, failed and it just pushed out and toppled over and that was it," Naomi explains.

Naomi was at a loss when asked how this engineering disaster could have been prevented.

"You see there was not sufficient money or time to do anything about this," Naomi says. "If someone had said, 'O.K. here is a billion dollars, stop this failure from happening for a Category 4,' it couldn’t have been done in time. I’d of had to start 20 years ago to where I feel today I would’ve been safe from a Category 4 storm like Katrina.

"Sure it should have been done 20 years ago but what can we do about that? You have to recognize before we had Category 3 protection we didn’t have anything."