Re: OT: Katrina -- Whom To Blame


"Ken Dixon" <nsvmiami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mickey wrote:
> > James <gentryIII@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:25:07 +0100, "Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>A comprehensive list of whom to blame for Katrina, compiled for easy
> >>>use by anybody with an axe to grind:
> >>>
> >>>http://www.thresholdstate.com/threshold/3966/who-to-blame
> >>>
> >>>I can't decide on a personal favourite. So far, it's either the fault
> >>>of the homosexuals, or an act of revenge by an aborted foetus.
> >>
> >>Personally, I like to blame my state, Alaska. We are directly
> >>responsible and should not only give up the highway bill money we
> >>recently were awarded, we should also spend the entire revenue of the
> >>permanent fund dividen to help rebuild a city below sea level, right
> >>on the coast, just so it can be destroyed again. :-)
> >>
> >>Personally, I am hoping hurricane Rita abruptly turns north and wipes
> >>out the remainder of New Orleans. Think about it... very little loss
> >>of life. Most people are already evacuated. And it would be a real
> >>lesson to the dumbasses who ignore factual science, roll the dice to
> >>live in the "big easy", then come crying to everyone else in our
> >>country when the inevitable happens.
> >>
> >>If you can't tell, my opinion of rebuilding New Orleans is that it is
> >>an assinine proposition, at best. That being said, I do feel for the
> >>loss of life of those who were unable to evacuate, and for those who
> >>survived and are facing hardships because they, too, could not get
> >>out.
> >
> >
> > There just may be hope for you yet, James. ;-)))
>
> On that note here's a piece from FoxNews that's interesting
>
> Wednesday, September 21, 2005
> By Radley Balko
>
> President Bush recently announced a massive spending project to rebuild
> New Orleans, including a down payment of more than $50 billion. One of
> his key proposals is a modern homesteading law, in which the federal
> government will give state-owned land to anyone from the region who
> promises to build on it.
>
> The end price could well be several hundred billion dollars. Pundits and
> editorial boards on the left are calling for even more spending ? to
> rebuild the city, to compensate those who lost property in the flooding,
> and to address the class and race issues they say the storm exposed.
>
> I find this all very hard to swallow. In its sluggish and inept response
> to Katrina, government at the local, state, and federal level failed on
> a massive, catastrophic scale. And the response is?.we need more
government?
>
> for the rest go...
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170069,00.html

What's so surprising? So predictably Bush wants to use Federal emergency
powers to usurp state owned public resources and give them away, free, to
"anyone" who wants to build presumably anything on it. And you can be sure
that by "anyone" they mean anyone who is already well connected who will
grab it up in a second. They don't mean "anyone" as in any ordinary
schmuck.

This is just typical Bush chicanery. It is nothing less than yet another
transfer of wealth to the haves and have mores. You don't even have to be
partisan to see through this for what it is. Wars or natural disasters are
just opportunities to further enrich the privileged few at the expense of
the rest.

Do we really need more examples of evil from this administration?

Paul


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