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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe it's time to think of Sandy as Grover Norquist's bathtub.
How many Americans drowned because his vicious oath prevented updated infrastructure, practical research designed to deal with climate change, and gutted inspection that might have suggested generators don't belong in hospital basements...
To save billionaires from necessary taxation, Norquist and his accomplices have stripped our preparedness leaving us naked to any kind of invasion: seawater, wind, disease....
Benghazi terrorists killed 4 Americans. Sandy did more than that on one block. No terrorist ever destroyed a city or ravaged a coastline. Katrina and Sandy did.
Let's get serious and put serious money where the real danger is.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Ninga
(8,266 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)That has a nice ring around the tub to it.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)I'd love nothing better than seeing him swirling down the bathtub's drain.
(followed by a big dose of Draino to make sure the pipe doesn't clog)
malaise
(267,823 posts)spread this everywhere
Rec
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)before the next storm comes in.
malaise
(267,823 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)I want him in the middle of a Sandy disaster area
Berlum
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NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)to a louisville slugger?
spanone
(135,635 posts)ananda
(28,783 posts)Into the beanie bag with you.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)They'll feel better afterwards.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)this is`t some disaster in the middle of the country where the media comes and goes. this hit in the home of the major news networks and one of the world`s largest metroplexs.
only the UNITED states of america`s has the resources to fund the rebuilding.
intheflow
(28,407 posts)What Sandy has wrought is terrible, but for destruciton of life and property, it comes no where near Katrina. Mostly because of underfunding for flood remediation at the federal level, but also underfunding evacuation shelters and other emergency programs. The people of NY/NJ will be much more likely to find interim housing or navigate the FEMA beaurocracy because they have higher levels of education than most Southerners and many, many more buildings left standing. Not to diminish Sandy's impact on the lives affected and the costs (which will be higher because of denser infrastructure, inflation, and a higher standard of living pre-storm), but really. If Americans didn't realize what Republicans have brought down upon this country following Norquist's lead from Katrina, they sure ain't gonna learn it with Sandy.
aquart
(69,014 posts)You talk as if I've slighted Katrina. And with contempt for my countrymen. Also, you're wrong.
intheflow
(28,407 posts)I do not say you slighted either Katrina or your fellow countrymen. You give me no example of where I am wrong. And I resent you implying I'm a concern troll for apparently waking up the reality of Norquist's folly seven years before you did.
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)If Katrina didn't prove to Americans the necessity of a well funded and well staffed disaster relief organization, nothing will. We all saw, and many experienced, our incompetent and uncaring government's response, or lack thereof, when the monster storm hit NO. The contrast for Sandy is right there in our face. Yet, millions will vote for Rmoney, who has promised to cut funding for FEMA and lay it on the states. Why is that? Why is that? He's white, that can be the only answer.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But Katrina didn't hit people the way it should have because a lot of the people who got screwed were black, poor or both, and those people don't count.
Sandy may get people thinking more sanely because the people affected will have been seen to not "deserve it."
Ugly, but that's my takeaway from this.
intheflow
(28,407 posts)I also think disasters are local, and affect locals more acutely. Sandy may well be the Norquist wake-up call for Northeasterners/people from the northeast because they are directly affected. I hope it doesn't take disasters of these magnitudes in all regions of the country for all regions to wake-up. And even then, Katrina didn't seem like much of a wake-up call for people affected in TX/LA/MS/AL.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)But some things are bigger than their area. The Deepwater Horizon disaster and Fukushima come to mind- but most people still don't see the relation to Norquist's BS and these disasters.
They really should- the idea that regulation and disaster preparedness cost too much money and make Gov't "too big" means that people die and areas are made uninhabitable by humans and animals/plants.
What form do you like your cost in? Dollars or flesh? That's the Norquist choice.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Preventing and preparing for natural disasters is at the top of the list.
Grover and his minions should be held accountable for failing to see that their lame ass policies of cutting government funding are hurting this nation. This involves people's lives.
CrispyQ
(36,227 posts)I'm making a bumper sticker of that!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Let's go 'Off the Cliff'!
That will eliminate Grovers hold on the economy.
LoisB
(7,076 posts)LeftInTX
(24,554 posts)Of course we don't pay him cuz that's a tax
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)My first instinct is to say it.
Maybe the unconscious are waking up. Maybe the evil authoritarians won't be in power to mess up the good things we plan to do for this country.
Maybe now we can make some real progress. We're only days away from finding out.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)But sadly, the only thing that could make griver drown is if her was founf to have ties to the Muslim brtoherhood, oh wait a minute:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1006345/posts