Where's the Hollywood crowd?

Question

Let's see if Oprah builds an Iowa town and gives eveybody houses

Good Question .... Gee I wonder why.

Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons

asking for help

in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?

Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the

federal

government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA

trucks (and

trailers) are?

Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free

hotels in

Chicago ?

When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the

levees that

failed in Des Moines ?

Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?

Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big

screen

television sets?

When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to

rebuild a

"vanilla" Iowa , because that's the way God wants it?

Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with

reports of

cannibalism?

Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white,

rural people?

How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding

ever again?

Answer 1

Because they are true Americans, unafraid of setting out to restore their lives and willing to do what it takes to make it happen.

Katrina people on the other hand were victims of voting in their Democratic leaders.

Answer 2

Could be that Iowans are far more self reliant and unlike the southerners in New Orleans, they are not always looking for free handouts. I hate to play the race card, but it needs to be said. Two different societies and two different races and two different results says it all.

Answer 3

Perfectly said.

Answer 4

"When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines ?"

here you go:

http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 5

Excellent observation. A star for you.

Answer 6

Its because there aren't that many of them.

And they aren't being neglected as they beg for food drops.

FEMA has learned something, and this isn't as bad as New Orleans was, 38,000 as opposed to a million and a quarter.

All in one city as opposed to over several states.  Many of those flooded out are staying with relatives and neighbors who aren't flooded.

Katrina covered three states, and it wasn't just a broken levee, it was also wind, rain and storm surge.  The death toll was over two thousand, thankfully that's not at all the case in the Midwest.

We do need to examine the levees that failed once again, as they did in '93, and the time for relief concerts will happen, as many of the people don't carry flood insurance and they were assured by the government that they didn't need it.

Maybe its time white, rural people stopped being so accepting, the government built those failed levees, the government told them they didn't need flood insurance, many of them will never be able to get back even a fraction of what they once had.

A little well placed anger and a little less sheepleness would do them better than placid acceptance.