Fuck that. If we owe them, we owe anyone who lives in Tornado Alley, or in California, etc, etc, etc, everytime a natural disaster.

Sam Kinison said it best - 'LIve where the food is!!!!'

I've listened to this once already and I couldn't make any fuking sense of this guy. Admittedly, I wasn't giving it my full attention... I'm still curious as to just what the fuk anyone could think any part of America owes New Orleans for getting hit by a hurricane.

You're NOT entitled to charity... if you were, it wouldn't be charitible.

I've listened to this again and am still unimpressed. If he's using the 'owe' tactic as shock-cladding for the idea that New Orleans needs levees built, he's drowning (so to speak) his message in unneeded counter-productive sensationalism.

I'm not sure who needs to pay for the levees (I suspect it isn't me) but if they need them, they need them. Make the case in the proper venue. Don't put on beggar clothes and demand a cigarette.

Only thing that's owed them is a new Mayor and Governor.

Sounds like someone loves Bush.

i didn't vote for bush, ever... but i am having trouble understanding why it is his and the federal governments fault.

I liek pie!

We owe them because it is the responsibility of a country to ensure the well-being (you can decide how to define that yourself) of ALL of its inhabitants/territories.

If you aren't going to channel a significant amount of resources into an area hit by a disaster, why even have that as part of your territory in the first place?

Basically my point is that we should cut loose the 'loser' territories that are more trouble than their worth and/or don't pull their weight. If you're in a hurricane zone and don't produce enough to make the recovery worth it for everyone else.... Have fun, and congratulations on your independence/annexation to Mexico.

So like,NO and NJ could merge and leave?

oh god, i hope NJ leaves... i hate the rest of you assholes crapping up our shore.

America OWNS New Orleans, and like any property owner, must do maintainence for regular wear & tear and the occasion destructive renter.

Do we really want to sell NO to the Mexicans? Or the Cubans? Because who else would take it? Japan?...well, Yes!

As long as whoever we sell it to still lets us in to crap the place up at mardi gras, I'm all for it.

We don't owe the brownies for their ancestors being slaves, and we don't owe them for New Orleans. Case closed.

The fat one in the middle looks like nocal's girlfriend!

We live in a representative republic. Each state is an individual entity. This idea of the federal government being everyones daddy is fairly new. Read your constitution.