Reply #26: Have you thought about this [View All]

[xray s]

Bush is a typical CEO. They do cost-benefit analysis. Its all about dollars. Lives don't mean shit.

Example; in the 60's, Ford decided it would rather have some of their customers burn in Pintos that explode in rear end crashes rather than spend $10 per car to correct a gas tank flaw. The money spent on lawsuits would be less than the money spent on the part to fix the problem, so let them burn.

Now someone in BushCo apparently decided the levee repairs scheduled since the 1990's in NOLA were not worth it, in spite of many warnings that a levee failure would be catastrophic. Now on the surface that is insane, since the cost to rebuild will be far far greater than the cost of repairing the levee. The cost benefit analysis seems way out of whack.

But, who gets all the money to rebuild? Does BushCo care more about its political legacy, or the billions that will flow into its coffers? Now, the true cost benefit analysis becomes clear. Let the levees fail.

I am sorry to be so cynical, but the last 5 years have me thinking this way.