...Louisiana residents want the federal govt. to bail them out from the damage caused by the recent floods.  They're supposed to be for smaller govt. but that doesn't seem to apply when THEY want help.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/21/102000-Louisiana-flood-victims-register-for-federal-aid/2611471793614/

Louisiana is the fourth biggest moocher state in the U.S.  They receive $1.40 from the federal government for every dollar they pay in taxes.  Conservative hypocrites - what else is new?

http://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/02/louisiana_takes_more_in_aid_th.html

Sure, Louisiana has a Democratic governor, but what would you expect after having that 97 pound weakling Bobby Jindal as governor?  Louisiana has two Republican senators, one of whom is David Vitter, a whoring thumper.  Why isn't Vitter calling for churches and other NGOs to help the flood victims, instead of the broke-ass federal government?

These red state thumpers believe America was founded upon "God-given rights."  Then why doesn't God get off His lazy ass and give the people something other than rights?  How about manna from Heaven in the form of money and building materials to help His believers out?

LTM = Louisiana The Mooch

I can't really blame them for standing up for their constituency, but I hope they're not surprised if Karma bites them in the ass! And, I hope their constituency realizes who is to blame if it does!

Conservatives have led the people to deny global warming long enough that the ensuing clockwork is now irreversible. The flood may or not have been intensification by global warming, it is impossible to point to its effect on any one event still, but the conservatives knew such things would happen, so the death and the destruction can be attributed to their policies ver he past three, four decades.

When a natural disaster strikes it's no time to play politics, put yourself in the flood victim's place. Of course I disagree with political views that they that continue vote for but no matter it's not up to other citizens to punish them.

and the majority of them are probably not white.

It's not a hypocrisy, and why should churches do the federal governments job?

 
Even Farrakhan, knows the government/private sector, gives out resources, and not God.

IOW the Nation of Islam, makes more sense than you do.

GW has nothing to do with Louisiana, flooding. Louisiana floods because of it's elevation, or the lack of.

The flooding was in northern Louisiana, must of which had never flooded before.  They got 11 inches in just TWO DAYS.  It was a 'thousand year flood."  Explain that, dummy.

You know, condensation. H2O evaporates in to the air and makes rain clouds. Then it falls back to earth in the form of rain drops. When there isn't anyplace for the water to go, it floods.  

 
Besides you can't blame it on Trump, so what difference does it make anyway

...I think you're a quart low in cranial fluid.

Trump's a member.

Or...we could say that another way: Trump is a dick.

Because that is the reason they have tax exempt status. And because Republiscum Legislators are constantly bellowing about how faith based organizations are all we need to take care of societal woes, not the big bad government. Until they want something. Rather than get their clothes muddy they cry for the government to wade in a take care of the flood victims.

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and I don't mean to make light of what happened to the people down there, but 11 inches of rain in Baton Rouge is hardly a "thousand year" flood.

I've lived in the south for decades, including Louisiana, and I've seen twice as much rain as that on multiple occasions  

You had the high ground here, why you insisted on making not one, but two incredibly dumb and ignorant statements back to back is beyond me.

Just as a point of reference, It's not unusual for a hurricane to dump twice that amount in a matter of hours.

This is most definitely serious business to the people affected, but lets keep the hyperbole down to a minimum there daffy.

if so how, and where. I said that I don't blame the 3 congressmen for standing up for their constituency, meaning asking for the funding. But, it was they who played politics during a time of a natural disaster.

I never mentioned Baton Rouge in my posts.  And there was lots more than that in Northern Louisiana.  Nice work in making yourself look dumb.

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"The flooding was in northern Louisiana, must of which had never flooded before.  They got 11 inches in just TWO DAYS.  It was a 'thousand year flood."  Explain that, dummy."

Here are your words. "northern Louisiana" Your map quite clearly shows SOUTHERN Louisiana

Your words. "They got 11 inches (of rain) in just TWO DAYS"   The actual amount was over two feet. eleven inches of rain in two days happens somewhere in the south almost on a monthly basis, my God man. Quit talking to FV, it's beginning to rot your brain.

Unhappy more cops aren't dying of late are we?

The larger point remains: FatVern was totally wrong to say the area was "below sea level."  And two feet of rain in two days is, in fact, a "thousand yer flood," so it might just have a tad to do with Global Warming.