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Edited on Wed Sep-07-05 10:19 PM by Quixote1818
>>>Bush is completely responsible for the Hurricane, the damage, the flooding and the destruction. They've been predicting this possibility for 100 years and the State and local governments have done nothing, as has the Federal government during, but let's turn this tragedy into politics.<<<<
No one has said anything like what you said in the first paragraph the anger is over FEMA's abysmal response. I am sure their is enough blame to go around on why the levies were not reinforced even though the local and state Gov. have been asking for Federal help for quite some time. The project would have cost several billion from what I understand. That several billion sounds pretty small now when you think that it could cost as much as 150 Billion to clean up the mess and get New Orleans back on it's feet. I hope we at least have learned not to cut corners on projects that if not handled could lead to the loss of whole cites. Sadly places like Alaska were getting millions for bridges to uninhabited islands as New Orleans was getting snubbed even though it was listed as number 3 on the list of most threatened cites because of it's levies and the hurricane threat.
>>>There's been 1 million people displaced, in a damage area larger than the country of Great Britain, but I see how Bush is the one who should have fixed it, prevented it or at least picked up his direct connection to the "All Mighty" and lightened the load.<<<<
Bush is mainly responsible for it taking a week to get food and help to people that were mostly in two places, the Super dome and the Convention center. I have never seen anything like it, not even in third world country's have they screwed up this badly. You have to admit FEMA's response was so bad it was almost criminal.
>>>>I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing people play the blame game less than 1 week since the storm. Yes, there is blame, but we've got 1 million reasons to put it on the back burner right now. The Democrats are fucking gutless and have no shame.<<<
Blame Game? I see you have the Right Wing talking points already. Blame Game, Blame Game, Blame Game. Where have I heard that before? They hide behind "The blame game" then turn around and blast the Governor and the Mayor at the same time. Have you heard Tom Delay, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity?
The Dem's have mostly been silent until yesterday even though the press, including even a couple of FOX news reporters and locals who were starving have blasted Bush for the past week. I think when you are starving, walking around dead body's, smelling rot and waiting day, after day, after day, after day for food and water you probably are entitled to complain a little bit. The Dem's Finally spoke up after Bush refused to take ANY responsibility again for the 50th time. It wouldn't surprise me if Bush had a sign on his desk that says "The Buck stops anywhere but here." After all, he is in charge and the Republicans do have all THREE branches of Government right now. You forgot to mention all the Republicans including Newt Gingrich who blasted Bush last week.
Come on it's obvious that Bush dropped the ball as usual. Just take the time and do some reading about what he did to FEMA. It's a fraction of what it was before 9/11. It's been diminished and filled with Bush's cronies with no experience in Disaster management. That's an outrage! Bush screwed up big time and many lost their lives who should not have.
We can agree to disagree and I am sure you have given money to the effort because that's the type of person you are. At this point that is really the only thing you and I should worry about. Giving a small fraction of our money to people who have lost everything.
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