WHAT'S WITH MISSING IN IOWA...?

The place is flooded. Homes, businesses, crops, and lives are in ruin, yet
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nowhere to be seen. Every photo I have
seen shows determined people working together to save their homes and
communities. No one has cried for the government to save their butt.
There is no looting, raping, murdering, or shooting. No need for a sundown
to sunrise curfew. The government hasn't gone door-to-door confiscating all
weapons. The governor of Iowa hasn't asked for $175 billion ($100 K per
(person) to rebuild the state. Nobody blames the government for failed
levees. (Well, not entirely true...the liberal media has already blamed
the Corps of Engineers, the White House and FEMA for the levee failures.)
There aren't conspiracy theories claiming the feds planned the floods on
purpose.No prisons have released all their prisoners into the streets.
Half the population hasn't relocated to neighboring states. What's missing
here, why is this so different than New Orleans/Louisiana?

A: Apparently Iowa, a red state, has fallen through the cracks and missed
out on the federal 'Victim Mentality Education Programs' in the schools.

Must be Bush's fault.

In article <mKSdnTK3doU37fvVnZ2dnUVZ_rjinZ2d@ptd.net>,
"Mike hunt" <mikehunt22@lycos.com> wrote:

> WHAT'S WITH MISSING IN IOWA...?
>
> The place is flooded. Homes, businesses, crops, and lives are in ruin, yet
> Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nowhere to be seen. Every photo I have
> seen shows determined people working together to save their homes and
> communities. No one has cried for the government to save their butt.
> There is no looting, raping, murdering, or shooting. No need for a sundown
> to sunrise curfew. The government hasn't gone door-to-door confiscating all
> weapons. The governor of Iowa hasn't asked for $175 billion ($100 K per
> (person) to rebuild the state. Nobody blames the government for failed
> levees. (Well, not entirely true...the liberal media has already blamed
> the Corps of Engineers, the White House and FEMA for the levee failures.)
> There aren't conspiracy theories claiming the feds planned the floods on
> purpose.No prisons have released all their prisoners into the streets.
> Half the population hasn't relocated to neighboring states. What's missing
> here, why is this so different than New Orleans/Louisiana?
>
> A: Apparently Iowa, a red state, has fallen through the cracks and missed
> out on the federal 'Victim Mentality Education Programs' in the schools.
>
> Must be Bush's fault.

Iowans are tough, hard working and responsible. They are from the heart
of the heartland and know what to do.
--

Mike hunt, 6/28/2008,1:10:57 PM, wrote:

> WHAT'S WITH MISSING IN IOWA...?
>
> The place is flooded. Homes, businesses, crops, and lives are in
> ruin, yet Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nowhere to be seen.
> Every photo I have seen shows determined people working together to
> save their homes and communities. No one has cried for the
> government to save their butt. There is no looting, raping,
> murdering, or shooting. No need for a sundown to sunrise curfew.
> The government hasn't gone door-to-door confiscating all weapons.
> The governor of Iowa hasn't asked for $175 billion ($100 K per
> (person) to rebuild the state. Nobody blames the government for
> failed levees. (Well, not entirely true...the liberal media has
> already blamed the Corps of Engineers, the White House and FEMA for
> the levee failures.) There aren't conspiracy theories claiming the
> feds planned the floods on purpose.No prisons have released all their
> prisoners into the streets. Half the population hasn't relocated to
> neighboring states. What's missing here, why is this so different
> than New Orleans/Louisiana?
>
> A: Apparently Iowa, a red state, has fallen through the cracks and
> missed out on the federal 'Victim Mentality Education Programs' in
> the schools.
>
> Must be Bush's fault.



I think the answer is obvious. They don't have an audience there.

"dbu" <nospam@nospam.moc> wrote in message
news:nospam-76B9E0.15303328062008@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> In article <mKSdnTK3doU37fvVnZ2dnUVZ_rjinZ2d@ptd.net>,
> "Mike hunt" <mikehunt22@lycos.com> wrote:
>
>> WHAT'S WITH MISSING IN IOWA...?
>>
>> The place is flooded. Homes, businesses, crops, and lives are in ruin,
>> yet
>> Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nowhere to be seen. Every photo I
>> have
>> seen shows determined people working together to save their homes and
>> communities. No one has cried for the government to save their butt.
>> There is no looting, raping, murdering, or shooting. No need for a
>> sundown
>> to sunrise curfew. The government hasn't gone door-to-door confiscating
>> all
>> weapons. The governor of Iowa hasn't asked for $175 billion ($100 K per
>> (person) to rebuild the state. Nobody blames the government for failed
>> levees. (Well, not entirely true...the liberal media has already blamed
>> the Corps of Engineers, the White House and FEMA for the levee
>> failures.)
>> There aren't conspiracy theories claiming the feds planned the floods on
>> purpose.No prisons have released all their prisoners into the streets.
>> Half the population hasn't relocated to neighboring states. What's
>> missing
>> here, why is this so different than New Orleans/Louisiana?
>>
>> A: Apparently Iowa, a red state, has fallen through the cracks and
>> missed
>> out on the federal 'Victim Mentality Education Programs' in the schools.
>>
>> Must be Bush's fault.
>
> Iowans are tough, hard working and responsible. They are from the heart
> of the heartland and know what to do.
> --
>
>
>
>

And so are, apparently, the people in Texas, south Mississippi and south
Alabama. They've all been hit by hurricanes. You don't hear them
bellyaching years after the fact. You don't hear the people of Illinois or
Missouri whining like a bunch of lazy people.

BTW, the flood waters in Iowa are headed downstream to New Orleans. Are
they preparing or are they doing the exact same thing they did with Katrina,
just sit there and whine? What's Mayor Ray doing? Just another example of
the 'They owes it to us' mentality, I'm sure.

Charles the Curmudgeon

Maybe its because Iowans are too stupid to stand around in the rain waiting
to drown? I am sure that we'll get the diatribe about corn subsidies being
their welfare so they don't deserve any government aid. How they build in a
flood plain? They should build BELOW the flood plain to get the correct aid
and all the attendant publicity - Bush should be hose whipped for allowing
this flood. Maybe Al & Jesse will testify in congress about the causes or
Al Gore?

Ron in Ca

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:10:57 -0400, "Mike hunt" <mikehunt22@lycos.com>
wrote:

>WHAT'S WITH MISSING IN IOWA...?
>
>The place is flooded. Homes, businesses, crops, and lives are in ruin, yet
>Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nowhere to be seen. Every photo I have
>seen shows determined people working together to save their homes and
>communities. No one has cried for the government to save their butt.
>There is no looting, raping, murdering, or shooting. No need for a sundown
>to sunrise curfew. The government hasn't gone door-to-door confiscating all
>weapons. The governor of Iowa hasn't asked for $175 billion ($100 K per
>(person) to rebuild the state. Nobody blames the government for failed
>levees. (Well, not entirely true...the liberal media has already blamed
>the Corps of Engineers, the White House and FEMA for the levee failures.)
>There aren't conspiracy theories claiming the feds planned the floods on
>purpose.No prisons have released all their prisoners into the streets.
>Half the population hasn't relocated to neighboring states. What's missing
>here, why is this so different than New Orleans/Louisiana?
>
>A: Apparently Iowa, a red state, has fallen through the cracks and missed
>out on the federal 'Victim Mentality Education Programs' in the schools.
>
>Must be Bush's fault.
>

Two recent commercials sum up the attitude in N. Orleans:

Sung "I WANT IT ALL"

and

"It's my money and I WANT IT NOW!"

Jack

"ron" <yabba@doodoo.org> wrote in message
news:vxy9k.12685$uE5.2080@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com...

> .... I am sure that we'll get the diatribe about corn subsidies being
> their welfare so they don't deserve any government aid.

Important point - no one has gotten any corn subsidies yet in 2008. Although
a new farm bill has been passed, no money has been sent out. For that
matter, there have been no corn subsidies for the last few years because the
corn price was above the Federally established target price. Another
important part, the biggest portion of the USDA's budget does not go to
farmers at all, but is devoted to Food Stamps, a welfare program. Here is a
quote from a CNN story:

"Two-thirds of the $300 billion in spending for the farm bill will go for
nutrition programs such as food stamps. Another $40 billion will go toward
farm subsidies, and $30 billion is allocated for payments to farms to keep
land idle and other environmental programs."

So when the anti-farm lobby start whining about agricultural subsidies,
remember, most of the money is really going to food stamps. The program to
keep farm land idle is essentially an environmental program. They give you
very little money to idle farm land. The only land "idled" is land so sorry,
or so erosion prone you wouldn't want to farm it anyhow.

Ed

But Ed, it doesn't really matter that they (farmers) didn't get it. The
media will still scream about the "farm bill" - I can see the argument now.
"The farm bill is a gigantic welfare scheme to benefit farmers at taxpayer
expense". The page 28 addendum (if they do it)"might" show the numbers.

With the ethanol mandate and the flooding, the farmers will play hell
getting any support this year either. We bought eggs yesterday and prices
about had doubled - my wife said why, I said corn prices, she said what
does corn have to do with eggs. I said what do you think they feed
chickens.


"Ed White" <cewhite3@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:aP2dnaph0qdhZfrVnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@earthlink.co m...
>
> "ron" <yabba@doodoo.org> wrote in message
> news:vxy9k.12685$uE5.2080@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com...
>
>> .... I am sure that we'll get the diatribe about corn subsidies being
>> their welfare so they don't deserve any government aid.
>
> Important point - no one has gotten any corn subsidies yet in 2008.
> Although a new farm bill has been passed, no money has been sent out. For
> that matter, there have been no corn subsidies for the last few years
> because the corn price was above the Federally established target price.
> Another important part, the biggest portion of the USDA's budget does not
> go to farmers at all, but is devoted to Food Stamps, a welfare program.
> Here is a quote from a CNN story:
>
> "Two-thirds of the $300 billion in spending for the farm bill will go for
> nutrition programs such as food stamps. Another $40 billion will go toward
> farm subsidies, and $30 billion is allocated for payments to farms to keep
> land idle and other environmental programs."
>
> So when the anti-farm lobby start whining about agricultural subsidies,
> remember, most of the money is really going to food stamps. The program to
> keep farm land idle is essentially an environmental program. They give you
> very little money to idle farm land. The only land "idled" is land so
> sorry, or so erosion prone you wouldn't want to farm it anyhow.
>
> Ed
>

In article <L0V9k.15835$Ri.9491@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com>,
"ron" <yabba@doodoo.org> wrote:

> We bought eggs yesterday and prices
> about had doubled - my wife said why, I said corn prices, she said what
> does corn have to do with eggs. I said what do you think they feed
> chickens.

From another thread in this group;
"Here's what was really funny: Polls showed that he still had very high
approval ratings **** FROM WOMEN **** during and after the inquisition."

Hope this clears that up...