Johnny’s Blog

This was forwarded to me from my friend in Missouri.

Des Moines versus New Orleans….what’s the difference?     (and Cedar Falls?)

When New Orleans flooded, it was touted by the media as a racist plan to wipe out black people. Now that white people are getting flooded out, the media needs to investigate, right? But who?

I heard a dimwit talking head on CNN yesterday say that this reminded him of New Orleans.  How?

Outside of being flooded the similarity stops there. There is no looting, no people wandering the streets looking for meanness, no grocery carts being shoved through the water carrying stolen big screen TVs, no people sitting on the tops of their houses waiting on the government to come and get them, or police abandoning their posts.

There are no Iowans bitching how the government and George Bush is failing them. There is not one damn thing, other than water, that is similar to New Orleans.

The streets in Des Moines are empty. People left when they were told to evacuate. They didn’t whine, bitch or blame the government for the broken levees. They did what responsible people do in a crisis -  they acted responsibly.

The actions of the people of Des Moines only makes the actions of the people of New Orleans look like what it was…..people of several generations of dependency on government unable to depend upon themselves to save themselves. The upcoming elections will only serve to make that worse.