Goodbye Leeville. Goodbye Dulac. Goodbye Venice.
In a move rarely seen in American history, our government, on all levels, has decided to abandon areas of our State populated by 30,000 fellow Americans and Louisianians. Those people did nothing wrong - they pay theirs taxes, they send their sons off to war to preserve our way of life, they're law-abiding people, they're good, loyal Americans. The problem is that they simply live below some imaginary line beyond which our governments have decided is too expensive to protect. Their areas have been excluded from the so-called levee re-alignment proposed by our usually wrong Corps of Engineers, while our public servants stand mute in the face of this tragedy.
Shame on you USA! Shame on you Louisiana! Shame on you Terrebonne, Lafourche and Plaquemines Parishes!
Why was public money wasted on Mary Landrieu's trip to Holland, if all they came back with is "we can't do that"? Sounds to me that it was little more than a publicity stunt.
Write David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, Charles Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Reggie Dupre, Loulan Pitre, Damon Baldone, Charlotte "Holland was a Photo Op" Randolph (none of whom live below the imaginary line, by the way) and express your displeasure that we won't build levees on the coast where they belong.
Wonder where the levees would be built if any of these public servants' families lived in Dulac, Cocodrie, Chauvin, Pointe au Chien, Montegut, Leeville, the Settlement below the floodgates, Grand Isle, Empire or Venice?
In a move rarely seen in American history, our government, on all levels, has decided to abandon areas of our State populated by 30,000 fellow Americans and Louisianians. Those people did nothing wrong - they pay theirs taxes, they send their sons off to war to preserve our way of life, they're law-abiding people, they're good, loyal Americans. The problem is that they simply live below some imaginary line beyond which our governments have decided is too expensive to protect. Their areas have been excluded from the so-called levee re-alignment proposed by our usually wrong Corps of Engineers, while our public servants stand mute in the face of this tragedy.
Shame on you USA! Shame on you Louisiana! Shame on you Terrebonne, Lafourche and Plaquemines Parishes!
Why was public money wasted on Mary Landrieu's trip to Holland, if all they came back with is "we can't do that"? Sounds to me that it was little more than a publicity stunt.
Write David Vitter, Mary Landrieu, Charles Melancon, Bobby Jindal, Reggie Dupre, Loulan Pitre, Damon Baldone, Charlotte "Holland was a Photo Op" Randolph (none of whom live below the imaginary line, by the way) and express your displeasure that we won't build levees on the coast where they belong.
Wonder where the levees would be built if any of these public servants' families lived in Dulac, Cocodrie, Chauvin, Pointe au Chien, Montegut, Leeville, the Settlement below the floodgates, Grand Isle, Empire or Venice?
posted by Carl A. Chauvin at 2:54 PM
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