That's not what I heard every night I went by you through Screams. Yankies whine just as much they just keep going and hope that catholic/jewish guilt will get them out of it.
*grin*.....OK.....ok...ravenaredNovember 6 2005, 17:45:46 UTC
OK...We whine over minor things...(it's that guilt thing..must keep in practice..it gives us strength) but the BIG stuff?...nope ...and you might note that I made it all the way through and put my share down on the ground or into the wall...thankyouverymuch..
Not disagreeing, but apples to oranges here.cluegirlNovember 6 2005, 18:15:58 UTC
Difference here is that North Dakota doesn't contain the single largest port city in the US, and so it doens't have near the criminal/governmental corruption to deal with, nor does it have the number of homeless, poor, and black that Louisiana did.
Mind, I'm not saying that Northerners don't cope, but have that blizzard hit NYC, and you'll be hearing it on the news for years to come. It's all to do with how important the place is to the economical infrastructure -- just like wars are fought over money, relief efforts are rendered over money. That's why the Indian Reservations are just expected to handle their problems themselves -- the US has no monetary reason to offer any help at all. And humanitarianism doesn't pay.
Re: Not disagreeing, but apples to oranges here.ravenaredNovember 6 2005, 18:28:19 UTC
Actually, I do remember NYC getting hit with a blizzard like that ...%#$ a number of years ago..it pretty much shut the city to a slow crawl for a while...got hit with a blizzard, an ice storm and another blizzard ..all within 2 weeks.
Re: Not disagreeing, but apples to oranges here.dleighbNovember 6 2005, 21:21:14 UTC
Yeah, but how often does a blizzard make 500,000 to a million people completely homeless in one fell swoop and kill almost 1000? I'm with cluegirl on this one. It's apples to oranges.
It is not a Northern/Southern thing. It is a poverty issue. I guarantee you if a blizzard did the kind of damage that the hurricanes did to a mass population of poor people in the North, you'd hear the same whining and complaining.
Of course, for the record, things would get fixed a lot quicker if people would quit their whining and complaining and get off their butt and do something instead of waiting for FEMA to help them out. I guarantee the people who were out looking for jobs within the next week are probably doing better than those who have sat expecting the government to help them. Now, if I could just somehow get my aunt to start living again instead of bemoaning the loss of her life as she knew it. The whining doesn't get anyone anywhere.
Sorry,, but I have to agree with cluegirl and dleighb. I would think that most of the people in ND already had heaters, snow tires, wood stoves, and an extra couple of layers of clothes.
I doubt that New Orleans natives had a liferaft, two weeks' worth of clean water, and non-perishable food in anticipation of a "one-off" event.
I agree that total reliance on the "gub'ment" is irresponsible, at best. But I think this is an "apples-to-oranges" comparison.
i'll dogpile on here and say if you were anyone else, i'd probably reply in such a way that it would burn a hole in your screen.
northerners don't whine? in my short time *here*, i have met exactly 3 people who were from the southern part of the us (2 from texas, one from florida). all of them laid back and pretty much willing to go with the flow. everyone else is either from the northern us or canada, and they have to be the biggest group of whiney, helpless babies i have ever encountered en masse.
maybe northerners don't travel well. or maybe it's just the luck of the draw who i have met, i dunno. but am aghast, and kinda offended, you'd use a brush like that to paint anyone, and would post something so insensitive that makes light of a situation that perhaps, given your comments, you really don't fully understand. or would you say the people of new york city were whining after the events of 9/11? again, apples to oranges...
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...and you might note that I made it all the way through and put my share down on the ground or into the wall...thankyouverymuch..
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Mind, I'm not saying that Northerners don't cope, but have that blizzard hit NYC, and you'll be hearing it on the news for years to come. It's all to do with how important the place is to the economical infrastructure -- just like wars are fought over money, relief efforts are rendered over money. That's why the Indian Reservations are just expected to handle their problems themselves -- the US has no monetary reason to offer any help at all. And humanitarianism doesn't pay.
Don'tcha just love Capitalism? :/
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It is not a Northern/Southern thing. It is a poverty issue. I guarantee you if a blizzard did the kind of damage that the hurricanes did to a mass population of poor people in the North, you'd hear the same whining and complaining.
Of course, for the record, things would get fixed a lot quicker if people would quit their whining and complaining and get off their butt and do something instead of waiting for FEMA to help them out. I guarantee the people who were out looking for jobs within the next week are probably doing better than those who have sat expecting the government to help them. Now, if I could just somehow get my aunt to start living again instead of bemoaning the loss of her life as she knew it. The whining doesn't get anyone anywhere.
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I doubt that New Orleans natives had a liferaft, two weeks' worth of clean water, and non-perishable food in anticipation of a "one-off" event.
I agree that total reliance on the "gub'ment" is irresponsible, at best. But I think this is an "apples-to-oranges" comparison.
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northerners don't whine? in my short time *here*, i have met exactly 3 people who were from the southern part of the us (2 from texas, one from florida). all of them laid back and pretty much willing to go with the flow. everyone else is either from the northern us or canada, and they have to be the biggest group of whiney, helpless babies i have ever encountered en masse.
maybe northerners don't travel well. or maybe it's just the luck of the draw who i have met, i dunno. but am aghast, and kinda offended, you'd use a brush like that to paint anyone, and would post something so insensitive that makes light of a situation that perhaps, given your comments, you really don't fully understand. or would you say the people of new york city were whining after the events of 9/11? again, apples to oranges...
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