The Angry Fat Man

Alright, so any elected official is supposed to stand up for their people, they have to embody the spirit and the beliefs of their electorate. While most elected officials fall short and become lame-duck one term elect, there are those few that so reflect the people's wishes and values that they become a symbol, a hero to their people.

With that being said, I think there is one man that truly is a GOOD Politician. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

Throughout all the adversity and strife in the area, he has stuck around. Like the people that just don't know when to quit and move to a safer area, or hell, even leave when their houses and apartments are under 10 feet of water, he has stuck around (or did he run away at first?). When the people cried out that it was a travesty that someone couldn't help them fast enough, and that the hand outs weren't enough...he cried just as loud. Rather than naysaying his people and telling them that everything will be all better and giving them hope of help from the outside, he has continually trash talked the government and agreed with his people that the "man" is out to get him and that nobody cares about New Orleans. So, for his undying strength and conviction in what his people believe in and sticking around when other people would have...oh, I dunno, relocated for the safety of their families. I salute you, mayor Ray Nagin!!!

(Disclaimer: I'll grant that I'm not in the situation, don't know how I would have reacted, whether to move out or rebuild, but God knows, I'd have dealt with life as it came at me, and not made stupid statements on television like this ass did, nor fully expected that the government should support me for a year while I tried to rebuild in an area that no longer has stable infrastructure. If you can't obviously rebuild your life there? Move...welcome to America, land of opportunity, as long as you are willing to do anything for your family, even....gasp....work a shitty job or two to get by!)

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 08:48 AM | Permalink

This isn't a ding on the government, merely a ding against our system and why we have SO much red tape to clear before anything gets done.

You know, the list of issues with the government is so long that it's hard to nail down a set number of reasons why our system of government moves so slowly. The current beef I have is really with people more than our system of government, but it rolls along with the question: why do idiots have the right to try and block certain injuctions on a local level when really it's federal law?...let me explain.

Illegal Aliens are well....illegally in our country. Secretly, we all like the security screeners and the strip searches at the airport because of the false sense of security we get. And even though I hate it and think it's bad to bias against past terrorists' races and creeds, racial profiling can be a necessary evil. But the illegal aliens of the Mexican persuasion we'll just not give a crap about because they do the crap services and laborious jobs that nobody else really wants.

Alright, so with that groundwork laid and the card carrying bunny huggers angered....here in Texas, a local city official wants to make it illegal in his community for people to rent housing to undocumented illegal aliens and make it illegal and punishable for companies to hire undocumented illegal aliens AND to declare english the official language of his city. So...LULAC asked for his resignation, which he firmly stated a "NO" to, and now they want to sue to stop him from putting the ordnance in place. Um....he wants to stop something that is technically illegal anyway, and force illegal aliens to become documented resident aliens if they want to live and work in his town. What exactly IS wrong with that? And just because there is an abundance of Mexican workers in his city, and it's probably his underlying want to make sure his city is on the up and up...how is this NOT what we want to do to make our country safer?!? Document those that are un-documented and then figure out if we can deal with or without them being here...track them in case something comes up or they become implicated in something. Hey, we can all be tracked, anyone that lives or works here needs tracked as well. So if his laws are in place and it forces undocumented workers to become documented or leave....well...force em to sign up!!!

Posted by The Younger (slightly less angry) Fat Man at 08:40 AM | Permalink