Katrina fall-out

back In The Day,
Marine days that is , they would move us all over the place in "cattle
cars". Yep , behind a big old truck! It was hot and pretty dern miserable
during the summer, but it beat the heck out of walking ! I never really felt
like a steer either. Most of the folks needing that ride out of New Orleans
probably do not have a clue to what the holocaust was. If they knew alittle,
they probably didn't know about the "Death Trains". Remember in the last
survey of Americans, 50% did not know George Washington was the Commanding
General of the Continental Army
Ok OK OK , maybe I did get alittle nervous when we would pass a sign
that said KANSAS CITY...

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

"john smith" wrote in message
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sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

"john smith" wrote in message news:Y2NRe.61330

What about trains?
Are there rail lines that run into New Orleans?
You can move thousands with boxcars and flatcars and a couple engines.

Yes, I did realize that, which is why I did not include a reference to it
in my original posting.
The difference being that the boxcars would not be locked in this case and
the conditions at the destinations would be significantly better than
those of the previous reference.
If the passengers are too small minded to realize these differences and
choose not to escape then one has to question their intelligence.
Take the train and live, or stay in New Orleans and suffer or die?
Personal choice determines their fate.

sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

I doubt that many of the poor in NO remember the holocaust.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Maybe, but the President Bush's good friends on the left will only be
too happy to explain it to them. The Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharptons of
the world would be all over TV screaming about a lily white government
loading black people on box cars to haul them away from the homes to God
knows where.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
news:iPPRe.10783$wE1.1200@trndny01...
sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

I doubt that many of the poor in NO remember the holocaust.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person
to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

sfb wrote:

Maybe, but the President Bush's good friends on the left will only be
too happy to explain it to them. The Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharptons of
the world would be all over TV screaming about a lily white government
loading black people on box cars to haul them away from the homes to God
knows where.

Jesse was in South America, easing tensions...

("sfb" wrote)
Maybe, but the President Bush's good friends on the left will only be too
happy to explain it to them. The Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharptons of the
world would be all over TV screaming about a lily white government loading
black people on box cars to haul them away from the homes to God knows
where.


Q: ...to God knows where?
A: Dry land and food.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are both ....idiots.

Many lily white folks rode the rails to a better life during the Dust Bowl
days.

(Great film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070030/
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)


Montblack

sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

Oh pahleeze. I suppose putting them in airplanes would be too reminiscent
of 9/11.

Airplanes have seats and rest rooms which are seldom found in boxcars.

"JohnH" wrote in message
...
sfb wrote:
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.

Oh pahleeze. I suppose putting them in airplanes would be too
reminiscent of 9/11.

sfb wrote:
Airplanes have seats and rest rooms which are seldom found in boxcars.


How long would they have been on this efficient means of trasnportation, a
few hours tops?

If this city was flooding (which it does, btw), I would GLADLY and without a
second thought put my family on a boxcar if that was the only means I had to
escape.

("sfb" wrote)
You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.


Is it the Holocaust? No. Then what planet are you on???

Feelings are fine until they get in the way of actually solving a problem.
Jeez!!

Rail lines run out of the city - people need to get out of the city. Hmmm?

Hum some Woody Guthrie tunes while reading this if it will help.
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Dust_Bowl_Refugee.htm
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Going_Down_The_Road.htm


Montblack
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/My_Daddy_Flies.htm

"Montblack" wrote:

You can't be serious? Using boxcars would be too reminiscent of the
Holocaust.


Is it the Holocaust? No. Then what planet are you on???


Planet Troll.