Posted On: March 23, 2006, 4:29 pm CST

Posted By: Tylertown, MS

Diane, you are a heartless shrew! Only one devoid of compassion would utter such vitriolic criticism. Fortunately, you have been spared unparalleled destruction, pain, and sorrow from a natural calamity; however, one day you may be cursed ("poxed") because Almighty God does exact vengeance -- "PRIDE goeth before destruction, and a HAUGHTY spirit before a fall."

You say, "...stop paying the frieght for people who live in coastal areas where they occur. Taxpayers also should not be sent the bill when they live in Montana or Iowa." How asinine! Using your illogical reasoning, then neither should the Gulf Coast's tax dollars be funneled into your state's coffers to maintain its infrastructure; never mind the myriad of federal "entitlements" that you benefit from in one way or another. Moreover, if it wasn't for the Gulf Coast's petroleum industry you, my dear, would be reading by candlelight, heating your home with dung or peat, and walking. Petroleum and ALL its byproducts doesn't jump out of the Earth; it requires humans LIVING in hurricane prone areas to maintain YOUR comfortable lifestyle.

To paraphrase John Donne: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, America is the less...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind...."

If you're capable, WISE up, woman!