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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 08:39 AM by expatriot
I don't care if it is. I don't care if the mods feel it necessary to delete this thread. I am so full of rage and despair this morning.
He cut funding for FEMA's community disaster preparation programs in his first budget to pay for his tax cuts to the wealthy. He cut funding for the Army Corps of Engineers. A large proportiong of Louisana Gaurd units are bogged down in his Iraq debacle. On Sunday, he was obliged to release a statement telling people in New Orleans "to get to higher ground" and then once he had sad that he went on his business of selling his snakeoil to the American people (i.e. Social Security scheme and Iraq) and staying at plush resorts on the other side of the country.
Our country longs for leadership and suffers gravely for the lack of it.
On cnn.com, Click on "You can't hold me. Take care of the kids." Watch that video and tell me if you are not filled with the same despair, frustration and rage towards the failure of the system that I feel. Bush killed this man's wife and his children's mother and he shall face the fury of a nation betrayed.
on edit: Of course I am not blaming Bush for the storm, but rather the lack of action taken to get people out of there. If it had been a priority for him he could have had the millions of people in N.O. and the coastal regions of LA/MS/AL all out of there by midnight Sunday. Easily. Police and Emergency officials currently have the authority to commandeer private boats right now to help transport people, if he would have signed an Executive Order Sunday afternoon and had every military cargo plane and chopper in the nation go down there, had the governors (of the lower 48) call up all available NG, fly in all active duty Marines around the country, commandeer school buses, city buses, tour buses, semi trucks and trailers, freight trains, mail trucks, anthing to haul people out en masse, have c-130's and chinooks lifting people out.... having tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Gaurd, Marines, police, park rangers, civil servants... going door to door FORCING people to leave (i.e. arresting them for violating mandatory evac orders)... we could have spared what I am afaid will be THOUSANDS of lives. It could have been done and it could have been done in less than 12 hours.
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