We are in all this together

[nadinbrzezinski]

we are the US of America... well stated Rachel.

And yes, you are right... for many historic reasons NOLA is not truly seen as part of the US. I said that when we were in the middle of it. The reaction was like if this was... in another country.

[RandomThoughts]

1. We are not all in this together.

Some people don't have work, and some people have not had equal treatment by systems of justice.

Some people are more in it then others.

Some people have issues that should be corrected, and some people do things that hurt many people.

Although I agree we should feel we are all in this together, but people don't believe that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Ah yes, if you chose to surrender to anomie

they win.

[RandomThoughts]

8. What is anomie?

And I don't surrender to anything, never have. Never felt right to surrender unless someone could explain why, and nobody done that yet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Here you go

http://durkheim.itgo.com/anomie.html

But it is broadly a sense of social isolation. And the US suffers from it, in spades.

[Lindsey]

2. Rachel's comments were awesome. n/t

[Skittles]

3. the media called the NOLA folk who came to Texas REFUGEES

W.T.F.

definition of refugee: one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

[Catshrink]

4. And that vile Barbara Bush said

"This is working out very well for them." :puke: God I hate that woman and her evil spawn.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. THAT is what I am talking about!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. I guess the far better and technically correct term

Internally Displaced Person is better?

Having done disaster services that didn't bother me.

What bothered me is that people talked of people in NOLA especially as if they were not Americans... and it goes beyond the word refugee.

[unkachuck]

10. "...this was... in another country."

....to be technical, it is another country, it's Louisiana....

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. No, it is not another country

or do I need a passport to travel there and we have passport control?

But what you posted, sadly, is the attitude at the highest levels of government and among many citizens of the US.

I am not sure if this is the majority, in fact i doubt it is the majority... by the way.