Wow, look at this email I got...

[Ghost in the Machine]

As you watch the flooding in the Midwest , have you noticed that there are no farmers running around with stolen plasma TVs or holding stolen liquor over their heads. There's no looting or yelling 'Where's Bush?', 'Where's FEMA?, Where's my check?', or 'Why isn't the Gov't out here saving me and my farm?'


Likewise, I've also noticed there are no reports of any other country coming to help or sending aid?



And where is Reverends Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton


Shocking contrast isn't it???!!!!


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?

How would you respond?

[cynatnite]

1. That's odd because I saw lots of flooding on TV...

with National Guard, volunteers, Red Cross, donations and all that. The govt. actually got there...

Unlike New Orleans where the govt. was nowhere to be seen while people died.

[liberalmuse]

2. Who wrote this racist piece of shit?

When I get stupid emails like this, I hit, 'Reply to All' and refute the lies point by point, but I'm at a loss on this one. I'd probably sign the person up for every liberal emailing list I knew of, including the NAACP.

[seemslikeadream]

3. send him this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2691935

[alfredo]

4. The administration didn't have political designs on the Midwest farmers.

New Orleans was what kept Louisiana in Democratic hands. Katrina gave them the opportunity to remove the Democratic voters, then rebuild New Orleans as a Milton Friedman, free market Republican city. Notice that local companies and local residents were not hired to help rebuild New Orleans. They wanted to ethnically cleanse New Orleans, to spread out and dilute a Democratic voting block.

[angrycarpenter]

5. My response to this crap.

It is because the government was halfway doing its job. More out of a fear of looking bad again then an actual concern for peoples safety.

I think the real question here is why would the government abandon anyone or withhold help from anyone who truly needs it? Could it be that they are as racist as this Email?

Also GWB does hate poor white people. There are more and more of them everyday and this man helped make them that way.

One more question. 1800 people lost their lives in Katrina, Maybe a dozen in the Iowa floods. Why does this Email compare the two as if they were somehow equal?

[treestar]

6. Liars

They expect government help when it's them. They know charity won't be enough.

They have a lot of nerve criticizing others. They would demand the same thing. "I paid taxes," they would whine.

They are so against helping their fellow man, that it requires a psychiatrist to figure out why.

[Frustratedlady]

7. That's been going around for a long time.

It's similar to one on Mexicans.

I swear they have one person writing this crap, as it all sounds alike.

[Frances]

8. Agree

I wonder how much the writer/s get paid?

[kevinmc]

9. Send this one back .......

Job Killer, American Dream Killer

You’ve seen him all over the place. He’s been on Saturday Night Live and Entertainment Tonight. He’s really quite a celebrity, one of the best known people in America. And he’s known for other things, too. Like owning eight (or is it ten?) houses, jetting around in his $12 million plane, wearing his $500 shoes, being worth $100 million…

and helping to kill American jobs.

It’s none other than the lobbyists’ best friend, John McCain!

In Ohio, one of McCain’s lobbyist friends (he’s got a LOT of them) helped arrange a buyout of Airborne Express by a German company. The lobbyist was paid almost $600,000 by the Germans. McCain pushed the deal hard in the Senate. Now it looks like 10,000, maybe THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE in Ohio will be out of work.

But the lobbyist who helped arrange it is doing just fine. He’s McCain’s campaign manager now. The details are here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign8-2008aug08,0,6428374.story

But McCain has a LONG RECORD of being one of America’s top JOB KILLERS. The story is here:

http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/14/mccain-red-white-and-outsourced/

And think your Social Security is safe?

TOO BAD McCAIN WANTS TO LET THE BIG MONEY BOYS RUN IT!

Yes, McCain wants to PRIVATIZE Social Security. DON’T BE FOOLED BY HIS LIES WHEN HE SAYS HE DOESN’T WANT TO. THE FACTS SAY OTHERWISE!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-scher/mccain-lies-about-social_b_106862.html

And are you having trouble with your mortgage? You can give a big “thank you” to McCain’s chief economic advisor, Phil Gramm—the ULTIMATE WASHINGTON INSIDER—the guy who, more than ANYBODY, caused the subprime mortgage mess! The story is here:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html

Yes, McCain is willing to outsource your jobs, privatize your Social Security money, and let his rich cronies and campaign contributors wreck the housing market. He’s voted with Bush NINETY-FIVE PER CENT OF THE TIME, too.

McCain would be a DISASTER for America’s economic future and a DISASTER for its working people.

Hey, but he’ll be OK. He’s really rich, so guess what? He doesn’t care.

He doesn’t have to.

[uppityperson]

10. Send them the snopes link along with a note saying it's been used for many other disasters falsely

keep it simple.