News Coverage focusing only on negative

[lizbud]

Originally posted by RICHARD

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I saw a film clip of a man, at the NO convention center, holding a three week old baby and yelling, "This is a three week old baby, how do they expect us to care for it....."


First of all that child is your responsibility,

You brought it into the world, you are the first line of care for it.

If you DID NOT PROPERLY take the steps to protect that child's health, then you do not deserve to have children.

Oh please, Richard. Babies that age need formula or at least
safe water to drink. Those people were there for eight days and
still no supplies were given them.

[Scooby4]

The guy waving a small baby at the truck..Wasn't it a relief truck? It was filled with National Guard people sent there to finish evacuating people so they could get to the help AND restore order. What were they supposed to do? Nurse the baby themselves?!!! Besides I think the guy was already AT the evacuee center where there were supplies available. He was NOT at an unsafe location or the guard would have rescued him.
I got sick and tired of people waving infant children and elderly at the camera at the RELIEF CENTER!!! It wasn't like these people weren't at the LAST RESORT HOTEL already!!! Sorry no 500 count bedsheets were available. I didn't see anything happening there that wasn't brought about by the survivors themselves. The relief workers weren't complaining were they?
Now the NO Mayor is blaming the Fed government???!!!! They interviewed the former mayor of NO on Fox. He told the reporter that when he was mayor, they had an evacuation/emergency plan in place. That plan was to be put into action 3 days prior to the event!!! Why didn't the current mayor have it working?
If I hear about how the poor or colored were neglected in this incident and it being the FEDERAL governments fault I am going to scream. They need STOP blaming the federal government which represents every american citizen. The federal government did NOT put those people in those low lying areas. The local/state government did. How do you think these poor areas get their Federal funding? They first create an area for the poor people to live and then ask the federal government to support them in this effort. Of course the state/local government is going to buy the cheapest property available. (Swamp land) and boost up the bill to Fed. The federal government doesn't care or is given false information from the state/local governments. Hence, the local/state governments are getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar on this one and trying to cover it up.
I hope this information gets out and people wake up to what is happening in their own neighborhoods. Where do you find your "projects" in your neck of the woods? Is it at "good" property valued areas? Probably not. Should we pay for the "double dipping" of our own local/state governments? NO and even Hawaii put their poorer neighborhoods in almost inhabital property. In Hawaii do you think the property values are lower the closer you get to a volcano or it's potential flow? Let's put the blame where the blame is due.

[carole]

Lizbud I totally agree with your comments, and Richard I just cannot believe you even wrote that.

[RICHARD]

Yep, I wrote that.


Oh, I forgot about breast feeding..Where was the mother?

Eight days???



Weren't the LATE FEMA , Nat'l Guard and Red Cross there the thursday after the storm?


Look,
Even John Kerry couldn't get there until yesterday....and isn't he a powerful senator?




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Personal responsibility is a fleeting thing here in the US...

[Jadapit]

Richard, a lot of mothers dont choose to breast feed. They were totally innocent babies.

[Scooby4]

So your saying that because the woman decided NOT to breastfeed her child by the method of which is the ONLY way to give it nourishment in a time of crisis or otherwise, the federal government is responsible?
Hello!!! It is an EMERGENCY situation!!! People in 3rd world countries aren't as ignorant as to NOT breast feed their own babies despite them NOT having food!!! I've seen pictures of mother's nursing children in Ethopia while they starve to death themselves!!!
I felt NO sympathy for the guy holding that 3 week baby up. I found it disgraceful and quite ignorant. If the man was giving the child up for rescue, then it would been okay. Instead it was a gesture of "where's my handout?"
By the way, I've been camping longer without food or water than most of these evacuees were without supplies. I am sorry they were without their drive-thu for a day or two. Americans are spoiled!!!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Jadapit
Richard, a lot of mothers dont choose to breast feed. They were totally innocent babies.

Yes, those babies are totally innocent...THAT is the reason that we MUST take the steps to protect them, no matter what.

They are the future.

People took this storm for granted. They were not prepared.

I cannot see having a child and NOT stocking up for an emergency.

It's like the people I see at a store at night buying diapers. The have money to make the diaper/formula run at 11 o'clock at night-but where was the money earlier in the day?

What is the excuse for running out of diapers or formula

I am sorry, but running out of diapers, formula or baby essential is unforgiveable..



And I will get blasted for this again - small children depend on their parents to care for them. If a person cannot secure the safety and well being of a child in a situation like that they should not have children.

The children, pets and older people are the ones that suffered the most in this disaster.

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This man had nine months to prepare for a baby..
This man had 5 days to prepare for a hurricane.
Yeah, he is poor and doesn't have the money to
lay in supplies FOR HIS CHILD for an extended period of time??

Then he should not be having kids.

That poor kid has no choice in the matter.


It's too late to go back and NOT have a baby, the only thing to do is to make sure that that child is well taken care of.

A diaper bag with four days of supplies for a kid can be stretched to 6 days, easily.

It's up to the parent of a child to make sure it's taken care of.

Holding a baby up to a camera and yelling about the government is not able to care for it shows how prepared this man was to be a parent.

[carole]

Richard I am hardly going to bash you for your comments, some of them are very valid and I even agree with them, but it is easy for us standing on the side in our comfortable homes to say all these things, I don't think anyone has the right to tell someone they can or cannot have children just because they do not have a six figure bank balance, so the guy was poor and unable to stock up, I honestly did not take the scene the way some of you have, I didn't think he was like standing there asking for a hand out, he sounded to me a desperate man, with a desperate situation on his hands, and I felt sorrow and empathy for him, it brought tears to my eyes, I just cannot understand how some of you can be so judgemental and lacking in compassion.

How many of us are prepared for a national disaster eh? it appears the super power wasn't even!!!!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by carole


How many of us are prepared for a national disaster eh? it appears the super power wasn't even!!!!

Carole,

I live in a land of earthquakes, landslides and civil unrest

I am prepared.

We Americans bitch about everything.

We are spoiled, lazy and even tho we want the gov't. to leave us alone, we expect them to be there when the fit hits the shan.

The thing that people lack is FORESIGHT.

I do not have any kids.

But I can tell you that when my father was alive he would have
"walked on his lips, thru busted glass" to make sure his kids were safe.

A three week old child is beyond helping himself.

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The clip right before the 'baby' clip showed another gent with a large pair of headphones draped around his neck....

He wasn't a newsperson or pilot.

I took it that there were connected to an iPod or DVD player.

If this guy had enough 'sense' to grab his music and save it from the flood, along with enough batteries to power it, then I think it would be a small matter to have prepared a bag for a child.


This man lived in a hurricane zone. Our government supplies money, food stamps and housing to our poor.

It has nothing to so with a 6 figure bank account.

It has to do with the responsibility of creating a life and being man enough to be responsible for that life.

Taking one can of formula a month, for the preceding months before the hurricane season can be done.

You don't have to be a millionaire to prepare for a disaster.

You just have to have half a brain.

[delidog]

Richard,
I am in YOUR Corner on this issue!!!!
as Bill Cosby said...."You are My Child,I can bring You Into this world,and I can Take You Out!!!!"
The Minute a Mother Knows she is Pregnant,Her Whole Life must Change!!!She must be "Pro-Active' in these situations...Because a 3 week old baby CANNOT fend for themselves....
So when YOU Elect To Have a Baby....You must Weigh ALL Positives and Negatives...and figure What is Best For YOU & Your Lifestyle!!!
And If YOU can Handle it!!

Just a Thought

[RICHARD]

Having children and caring for them is the one thing in life that can enrich your life beyond any material thing.

I have often envied my brothers and sisters, friends and strangers for being able to have the chance to bring a child into the world, show it love and to breathe character into it's life.

It's a huge job and it doesn't pay you anything........
It's a huge responsibility and it's a life long task.

My mom told me this once.

You have children, you bring them up the best you can and then they tear your heart out.

Some people, by having kids when they aren't ready to care for them, do it backwards-

They have them, tear their hearts out and let someone else bring them up or care for them.

I don't have kids because I do not think I could be a proper role model, safe haven or hero to them.

Selfish?

Yes, and all the more reason to admire and put the people who do have children on a pedestal.

It just galls me to to see people who are supposed to be the protectors, advocates, supporters and parents to small children not using their bean.


Here in the U.S. some babies haven't been born yet and the parents have already picked out a profession, a college and the house they are going to live in....


Why can't some parents plan a few weeks in advance?

I really don't know, but my heart bleeds for these kids knowing the are going to grow up hampered by some knucklehead parents.

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In closing, One media reporter was criticizing the government for not having top ranked schools in the gulf area.

He went on to say something like, "How can a poor kid get an education in an enviroment like that?"


You can tell that to every child who had a hunger for knowledge,
someone who asked, "Why?" over and over again.
Someone who looked at the horizon and thought "What's over there?" of looked into the sky and said,. "what's OUT there?"

They blame it on the government and the money spent, when it starts at home with love and hope invested.

Some of these kids got the short end of the stick.

They were born to a couple who don't care.
They are not encouraged to reach and then some
fricking hurricane really kicks their arse.

Just because life ain't fair doesn't mean you have to toss in the towel.


Sometimes you have to fight.

And when you do, you have a 50 percent chance of winning, and the loser???

No losers there, you went down swinging.