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The Big Easy Gets What it Deserves
By Doug Patton
May 22, 2006
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In the same speech, he claimed that "God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country...Surely He doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses."
Ordinarily, I could not care less who the voters in another city elect to be their mayor. In fact, had it not been for Hurricane Katrina, most of us would never have heard of Ray Nagin. But tens of billions of our tax dollars are being poured into rebuilding a city that is vulnerable to being flushed into the Gulf of Mexico as if it were a big toilet bowl. New Orleans gets the government it deserves. The rest of us don't deserve any more of this.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to federal, state and local candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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