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Originally posted by: Mavdog
the remarks had nothing to do with "redistribution of wealth" but the need for a federal role in aiding the lower income citizens.
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A federal role in aiding lower income citizens. What does that have to do with the Supreme Court? It's not the job of the Supreme Court to aid lower income citizens.
Kennedy, as usual, was grandstanding and interjecting his socialistic viewpoint into a setting where it was unwarranted and frankly in poor taste.
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There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.
hmm, so crime is merely a function of public housing, and public housing occupants produce the jail populaion? therefore where there is no public housing the jails are empty? no, that isn't the case.
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You said absolutely nothing to disprove what the writer said. All you did was try to distort what he said. Typical.
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In a city corrupted by the welfare state
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so the City of New Orleans failed to adequately respond to the crisis because they had public housing projects that somehow distorted the official's mission? very interesting.
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Do you think the city's evacuation plan was a good one? Do you think the city adequately and properly utilized its available resources to evacuate its citizens?
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Instead, I have found numerous reports about the collapse of the corrupt and incompetent New Orleans Police Department
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the "welfare system" was responsible for those police officers who cracked? it had nothing to do with the stress of seeing their homes destroyed, their families evacuated, and the chaos that resulted?
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The guy didn't say that. I love how you cherry pick quotes and then try to distort their meaning.
What he said was that the city had no plan to evacuate the prisoners (which is true), and he referenced reports from other papers about the corruption and incompetence of the NOPD. I doubt you dispute any of that.