"Oscar_Lives" wrote in message
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American middle and high school students everywhere should be required to
watch videotape of the poor people stranded by Hurricane Katrina. Teachers
should point out that many U.S. citizens without the financial means to
get
out of New Orleans wound up floating face down in the water or, at the
very
least, were subject to gross indignities and suffering of all kinds.

The teachers should then tell the students that the local, state and
federal
government bureaucracies failed to protect those poor people even though
everybody knew the storm was coming days in advance. The lesson should
then
segue into how the most powerful nation in the world was powerless to stop
9/11 and scores of other natural and manmade disasters throughout our
history.

After presenting those undeniable facts, the teachers should then present
two questions: Do you want to be poor? And do you believe the U.S.
government can protect you if you are poor?

(snip)
Hmm- can't argue with teaching kids that learning a marketable skill is a
good survival tactic. But along with that, maybe we need to teach them to
DON'T FRIGGING BUILD YOUR HOUSE BELOW SEA LEVEL, OR MOVE INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD
BELOW SEA LEVEL. (Or the Califirnia variant, don't build your house on
telephone poles on the side of a bare mountain, or over a fault line.)

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