The 15 Feb 06 Edition of Most Brain Dead Letters To The Editor

[MrScorpio]

Welcome to the Wednesday, 15 Feb Edition of the Most Brain Dead Letter To The Editor

This is dedicated to the those wonderful people who inspire us all by not only being incredibly stupid but also display their stupidity for all of us to gaze and wonder upon, in the LTTE sections of today's newspapers.

Today, I have a rare treat for you. A letter that is not only so unbelievably stupid and at the same time so incredibly cold-blooded, it can make fish cry. After reading this utter piece of shit, I immediately invented the BABS BUSH AWARD FOR CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR HUMANITY, for this writer. He really, really really deserves it. (Throw four more "really's" in there for good measure)

How this fool possesses enough neurons to write this letter, much less retains the ability to have any autonomic brain function is a fucking mystery to me. They should have pulled the plug on this zombie a long, long time ago.

Normally, I throw in some editorial jabs, but I'm leaving this example of heartlessness unscathed for all to see.

I'm saving the commentary for later

From today's issue of USA Today is a letter by Mr. David Williams of Hooks, Texas (Figures).

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-02-14-letters-katrina-rebuilding_x.htm

Enjoy.

Reliance on government stalls rebuilding
A key sentence in USA TODAY's story Has USA lost drive to rebuild after tragedies? explains a lot about that "lost drive." Of Chicago, San Francisco and Galveston, Texas, the article says, "These cities rebuilt, each with little federal aid" (News, Friday).

"Little federal aid" explains it all.

In 1871, 1900 and 1906 — the years of the Chicago fire, the Galveston hurricane and the San Francisco earthquake — the American people had to depend on their own initiatives to build a nation. It was a time before the Great Society and Social Security. It was a time when Americans were independent, not dependent.

Today, we have become a society dependent on the federal government. Listen to newscasts about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: The focus is on what the Bush administration has not done to rebuild New Orleans, while several thousand evacuees still live in hotel rooms, waiting for someone (the federal government) to clean up the mess, rebuild their cities and give them food and shelter.

Why do these people lack the get-up-and-take-care-of-my-problem attitude? The Great Society has taught them that, "It's not my problem, I'm just the unfortunate victim." They think, "It's a problem for those who will work and pay taxes. They need to work harder and pay more taxes."

In the other tragedies, Americans took the initiative. Today, we sit and wait for the federal government and President Bush to take care of it. Through private donations and federal money, several billion dollars have been raised for New Orleans, yet we still see pictures of piles of debris left from the destruction of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Meanwhile, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin demands more money and the politicians of Louisiana wait for the federal government to make things right.

The other cities rebuilt with "little federal aid" because they had leaders who were independent and recognized the problem was theirs to take care of. Our people need to go back to this we-can-do-it attitude and quit being so dependent on the federal government. The problem would be solved a lot faster, and we would be a lot more appreciative of the results of our labor.

David Williams

Hooks, Texas

Mr. Hooks, please consider the following: The victims of Katrina and the Bush imposed aftermath were TAXPAYERS too. What did they get for their expense?

Utter incompetence and the kind of clueless callousness that you admire as your own life's call.



Remember that the estimated cost of this disaster is around ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/10/15/federal-katrina-expenses-_n_8915.html In case you can't get it through to your pathetic excuse for a brain pan, that the number 150 followed by NINE ZEROES. I don't know about folks in the idyllic berg of Hooks, Texas, but most people in this country don't carry that kind of pocket change... Much less hundreds of thousands of dispersed poor and working class homeless people who have lost EVERYTHING.

In case you don't know what these poor folks are up against check this out:





http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,513524,00.jpg



And those were some of the nicer pictures.

All I have to say is this: Please buy a fucking clue. Letters like this give Texans a worse rep than they already deserve.

As always thanks, David, you are an inspiration to us all. :yourock:

Here's a toast to your ice-cold heart and your dead brain. :toast:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Why do these people just make shit up all the time?

Why can't they at least read a history book or something?

For fuck's sake.

And why can't they apply logic and any sense of rational thought?

one advantage the cities had 100 years ago was that they didn't have to worry about reinstalling plumbing up to code, sewage up to code, electrical up to code, gas up to code, building up to code... they didn't have roads to replace (they were all dirt), no airports to fix up, no stadiums, no skyscrapers... and let's face it, rebuilding after a fire or an earthquake is SHITLOADS easier than rebuilding after a flood.

they also didn't have so large a population - I bet Chicago in its fire and San Francisco in its earthquake had maybe 20% of the population of New Orleans in Katrina, if even that.

[Robeson]

2. Dudes been reading to many Horatio Alger stories....

...then again, he probably can't read at all.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Here's the response I posted to this over in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=437751&mesg_id=437815

[KT2000]

4. Shouldn't someone level

this ass's community, then flood it so we can sit back and watch his get up and go?? Then, when he decides to get out of the flood and muck, we can watch while he is forced back at gun point.
Oh please I want to see this.