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Skriven 2008-02-11 22:34:00 av Bob Klahn (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av John Massey
Ärende: Katrina refugees
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 JM> Bob Klahn -> John Massey wrote:

 JM>>>  The facts are on my side. Anthropologists will tell you
 JM>>>  that in any culture you are likely to have about 10% of
 JM>>>  the population that will only do what they absolutely have
 JM>>>  to do to survive. Nothing more. New Orleans, it seems, had
 JM>>>  more than their share.

 BK>>  And just how many did New Orleans have? Did you actually look it
 BK>>  up?

 JM> Did you?

 Yes, I did.

 BK>>  Oh, what anthropologists said that? In the real world, people
 BK>>  will do what benefits them. If it doesn't benefit them they
 BK>>  won't do it. In the long run.

 JM>>> I made it very clear last week when I made my statements
 JM>>> about Katrina refuse that I was not talking about all
 JM>>> Katrina refugees. Media Morons and Thinkprogress aren't
 JM>>> bright enough to pick up that nuance.

 BK>>  Yeah, just which ones, or race, were you talking about?

 JM>>> (note to ROSS)    See where he says "I was not talking
 JM>>> about all Katrina refugees?"

 BK>>  He says that? Who was he?

 JM> You can not be that stupid not even if you are acting.
 JM> You know damn well who he is and what show we are talking

 No, I really didn't. I can guess now, though. When will you
 learn to cite your sources?

 JM> about. I am not in the mood to play your childish games.
 JM> You are as childish as Sauer. The difference is Ross is
 JM> just plain stupid and you are not.

 And you are just plain too damn stubborn to recognize the
 necessity of giving credit for what you post. Make that
 egotistical, not stubborn.

 JM>>> The fact is that New Orleans had a higher percentage of
 JM>>> people on welfare - people living off the efforts of others
 JM>>> - than any other major city in this country. Those people

 BK>>  Did they? Your source for that?

 JM>>> are leeches. They're parasites. And when the flood waters
 JM>>> came they did what they have always done throughout their
 JM>>> lives ... they sat on their asses and waited for someone
 JM>>> else to do something.

 BK>>  Except for the ones who walked across the bridge, and were
 BK>>  forced back to New Orleans at gunpoint.

 BK>>  ...

 JM>>> The anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. Look around the

 BK>>  And a lie.

 BK>>  ...

 JM>>> Perhaps the most telling anecdote was that of the luxury
 JM>>> cruise ship in Mobile harbor. FEMA chartered the ship to
 JM>>> house Katrina refuse. Here these people had everything ...
 JM>>> everything a cruise ship passenger would pay thousands of
 JM>>> dollars a week for. Three meals a day in the ship's

 BK>>  Not true.

 JM> What about the crime on those ships? You seem to have cut

 What about the crime? Put 500 people on a ship, and 10 criminals
 constitute a crime wave. So, what were the actual figures?

 And you cut out the rest about the cruise ship amenities.

 JM> that out. The parasites are not worth defending. Every

 But the decent people who were victims are.

 JM> dollar spent on them is waste of taxpayer money.

 And every dollar spent on Bush's war in Iraq was a waste of
 taxpayer's money. And deadly besides.


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