Where are the Hollywood Democrats?????

Your premise is false. Try this for starters.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/08/31/katrina.concert/

 

Magnetic Poles:

You are right! I caught part of the concert last night. It was great. Celebrities like Harry Connick Jr., Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Aaron Neville and others were there to lend their support.

 

I heard the other day that Morgan Freeman was setting up a celebrity auction to raise money.
But I would think anyone who makes 5 million a movie could afford to give some of it away.

 

Which Hollywood stars make a fuss about 9/11 within days?

Who was?

Are you sure those weren't Broadway stars? There is some crossover and they were already here. It's not that long a walk downtown. I seem to remember that most flights were canceled for a few days.

New Orleans doesn't need Hollywood stars walking around handing out sandwiches.

 

I am also wondering which Hollywood "stars" were out saying they were helping as Democrats?

 

MP,

Is that a tongue in cheek question? Why would they say there were helping as Democrats? I don't think that anyone is helping, or saying they're helping, as members of a political party.

 

FTR, my point exactly. It was TS who was saying that.

 

I think this caught EVERYONE off guard. This is at a magnitude larger than anyone could ever imagine. It is not a disaster of "biblical" proportions but HOLLYWOOD proportions.
When the WTC was destroyed it covered a smaller area of real estate. TV cannot capture the size of Katrina's devastation. Once you see some of it from aerial photos ....where does one begin? Who gets help first? The streets are flooded everywhere. This was like a "WET" Pompeii. Rapid uncontrollable disaster.

 

Um, that's not true, either. The wealthy may have made the news more, but the whole waitstaff of Window of the World restaurant - primarily Bangladeshis - was wiped out; waiters, dishwashers and busboys weren't poor, but they were hardly wealthy. You seem to be unaware of maintenance workers, delivery people, secretaries, messengers, bathroom cleaners, receptionists, elevator operators (those were some elevators), newspaper vendors, clerks and all the support staff that out number CEOs, attorneys and investment bankers (very, very few accountants in NY are wealthy). Then, too, are the people who worked in the sandwich shops in the area and those who live in the apartments over the shops.

The big news getters were the firemen and emergency workers who knowingly put their lives at risk to help others. They were not wealthy.

 

I've thought the same thing. Maybe because 911 was a series of terrorist attacks and not an act of nature? They were both horrific but different. But still...where are all the hollywood actors now? Is it because they were mostly poor folk? Who knows. Personally I can care less about hollywood, but it would be nice if they coughed up some of their millions they make.

 

"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly."


Does it really matter who gives what and how much? What is important is that these folks are back home as soon as possible.
All of us need to give cash till it hurts and get these people back in their homes.
Its a shame that some, especially the entertainment crowd, who always seem to "sound a trumpet" at all their philanthropic endeavors, have to throw concerts in order to allow them to make political statements.
No one is interested in seeing them perform at a time like this. Just give back some of the cash that the people have been lining your selfish pockets with.

 

We need to focus on what the average man or woman is doing ot help. There are hundreds of people swarming the area volunteering to help. Focus on them. It's a whole different ballgame when someone gives or volunteers who doesn't have millions behind their name or dozens of staff members to take care of their daily needs.

Americans are going to this area to help, not to get some publicity (I'm not saying that's why the stars go, although I'm sure there are some that do), but because they want to help their fellow man.

What has a Hollywood star done lately? Why are we looking to them?

 

Yes, I remember but only the partners of the firms and, possibly, the top managers, are wealthy. Jr. accountants, who have to work for an auditing firm for two years to qualify for their CPAs, staff accountants and senior accountants far outnumber the big wigs. Then add in the clerical staff, secretaries, receptionists, IT staff, vendors and interns and the little guys outnumber the big guys.

While it's true that an unusual number of wealthy people died, more non-wealthy did.

 

TS,

Canter Fitzgerald got just as much publicity as the firemen did.

Pardon me, but that is an incredibly ridiculous statement. Who is Canter Fitzgerald? Maybe I've been living under a mushroom but I've certainly heard a great deal about the firemen, NOTHING about Canter Fitzgerald. I think it's a pretty safe bet that is a true statement for most Americans too.