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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (10355)	10/21/2006 9:09:19 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217927

you see, maurice, and i mean no disrespect, only pointing out the blindingly obvious, that you, by your very nature, is limited by your thought process to only write and just believe in what you have wrote in the post to which i am now responding, oblivious to the indubitable greater picture to which i was actually referring to, that the system that enabled a storm such as katrina to do the damage it did, and expose the cracks that it did, systemically speqaking, is exactly what gold ownership will ameliorate ... still do not get it? pity. hints: officialdom listening to opera and shopping for shoes, parliamentarians seducing young boys, top dog voicing job well done and boasting bring it on, second dog claiming nothing matters, third dog uttering stuff happens, while a city burns and another floods, amidst images of looting, killing, racially selective emergency services, 3rd world refugee flooded in first world splendor, picking on the weak, attacking the defenseless, and followed on by money printing, waste, and corruption, even as the business class scheme with the financial class to back date options immediately after swearing to certify quarterly results which are lies in more than enough cases ... i mean, can you point to a third world nation where the equivalent happened, not counting haiti and zimbabwe? oh, that systemic thing ! you say. ah, that big picture, you failed to comprehend ! like ... the blindingly obvious to the most casual of passing observers, minus you, naturally so, here it is, again, gold is for systemic protection against the trend that allowed katrina to happen

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (10355)	10/21/2006 10:36:49 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

Without expressing an opinion on the implications of the immediate post-Katrina aftermath, and only because I live in New Orleans and know a thing or two about what happened, let me say unequivocally that the flooding was absolutely, positively not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster caused by the unbelievable engineering incompetence on the part of the US Army Corps of Engineers, who were in charge of 90% of the city's flood protection. We should have never flooded. The flood protection should have been sufficient in theory but it was abysmally executed in practice. Nonetheless, you are not meeting Jay's arguments which are based on the aftermath. I have lots of opinions on that, too, but I don't consider them to necessarily be any better than those of any other intelligent person as they require no local knowledge to confect. But, since you insist, vbg, I will throw out this hint: the post-K aftermath was a very complex event with many complex causes, some which support Jay's thesis and some which do not. The starting point is that we're an outpost of the Third World within US territory, and have always been treated as foreigners. We're different and have suffered for it. I'm not sure that supports Jay's point, but I do think it is a fact which cannot be ignored. Oh, and the local political leadership very much follows a kleptoplutocratic [ha! there's a new word] model. These kleptoplutocrats are riddled with ineptitude and incompetence. Thus, what happened here may--repeat, may--have been symptomatic of a localized condition, I can't really say. We would have to have another disaster like Katrina somewhere else to test Jay's hypothesis.