In 2001, FEMA ranked a major hurricane strike
By on Aug 29th, 2005 at 10:19 pm
In 2001, FEMA ranked a major hurricane strike
on New Orleans as “among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.” Bush slashed hurricane funding anyway.
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All Bushie is doing is destroying the Republican base. He doesn’t care about the Republicans that are running in 06 or 08. He’s destroyed the party and for that I will say “good job”.
August 29th, 2005 at 10:43 pmHere is a problem Susan. The people that are being affected by this hurricane in LA are not on their computers reading this. Nor are they watching a TV or any other form of media that is covering the fact that Bush has made sure they won’t be protected from future hurricanes.
They are huddled together in shelters trying to survive. They won’t get the information we know of. I would even go as far as to say that they won’t have Internet access or TVs for a while. I sure it is the last thing they are thinking of.
So, when they return to a somewhat normal life again, all of this will be “old news” and the MSM will be back to reporting on Halloway. That is real news. They just rearrested the brothers.
Then, come ‘06 these people will vote republican again. Very sad.
August 29th, 2005 at 11:09 pmDon’t be so sure. They were all Democrats once. Then Republicans. They will be Democrats and Progressives once again. Time is the key. If you ever saw a graphic of the two parties and how they each criss-crossed each other from left to right over the last 100 years, you would know this is normal.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:25 amIn fact, here it is…
http://www.historyshots.com/parties/
August 30th, 2005 at 12:27 amhttp://www.historyshots.com/parties2/
August 30th, 2005 at 12:28 amSpudgeboy, most of the information about Dubya’s cronies cutting monies is just now coming out to the REST of the country. The first report I saw linked about it was dated in JUNE of this year–more than 2 full months ago–in a New Orleans-based newspaper devoted to the city’s business community (”New Orleans CityBusiness”). It seems pretty obvious that the residents of New Orleans (which went HEAVILY for Kerry/Edwards last November–Orleans Parish, which encompasses the actual city of New Orleans, gave more than 150K votes to the Democrats while fewer than 43K voted for the Republicans) would be aware of the Dubya administration’s cutting funding for hurricane-related programs.
August 30th, 2005 at 5:45 amMore on hurricane Katrina especially hitting less well off people, Bush, etc. see at http://dearkitty.modblog.com/?show=blogview&blog_id=725429
August 30th, 2005 at 7:23 amWell, you can’t fund emergency preparedness and maintain the DC to Crawford Air Force 1 shuttle at the same time and God knows we wouldn’t want to jeopardize the vacation schedule. Soemone has to cut that brush, it might be an insurgent training camp!
August 30th, 2005 at 7:30 amHey, funding is no substitute for good ol’ fashion’ prayer for them people.
August 30th, 2005 at 7:56 amMaybe Bush felt that preemptive “hurricane funding” is silly because the Feds always come in provide relief anyway. Why put money off to the side and let it sit there when the disaster may not strike. We don’t manage Social Security that way.
I realize that this rationale doesn’t fit the “evil Bush” model but it is possible that this was the thinking.
August 30th, 2005 at 8:11 amThe President of the United States paying attention to something like a FEMA report!??!?!?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh STOP! You guys SLAY ME!
August 30th, 2005 at 8:32 amI have a question. Will other countries come to our aid in the wake of this disaster like we did for others after the tsunami?
If not, why not?
August 30th, 2005 at 8:53 amNothing junior and his band of criminals can manage to do now should seem unususal or suprising.
August 30th, 2005 at 8:58 amUnless of course, they do someting FOR people earning less than six figures.
It’s been clear to me for quite a while that they would take the last bean off your plate and sell your children if they get the chance.
That’s a classic, CC.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:00 amIt’s getting to be about time to get back on the CIA leak point. All things are subsidiary.
Rep. King, Peter (R-NY-3rd)
Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX)
Sen. Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Sen. Coleman, Norm (R-MN
Rep. Blunt, Roy (R-MO-7th
Sen. Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Sen. McCain, John (R-AZ)
Sen Roberts, Pat (R-Ks)
These are the hard core leak deniers. I need to update my list.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:06 amSpudge, Actually it may take a week or few to get power and phone service back to their homes ( It took us 4 months after charlie during which time we were living elsewhere). All FEMA ever did for us is lend us an 8×30 travel trailer for 6 months (6 people lived in it. Woefully inadequate, but better than living on the streets). Regardless news gets into these areas one way or another. The real problem is everyone outside of new orleans will forget about this in a few weeks and figure everything is ok. More than a year later I am still waiting for the final insurance settlement on my home. Many people and businesses have left for good and lthough much has been rebuilt an astounding amount is still yet to be done.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:09 am#
Dartanyon said:
“If you don’t have no money, you can’t go (evacuate.)â€
Yep. That must be why Bush is AWOL from the scene of the hurricane’s desctruction whoring his dead Social Security privatization scheme out west.
To help people like this woman.
I say: He’s out west celebrating the Japan surrender because their is no well-staged log cutting photo op in all that water.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:12 amComment by Dartanyon — August 30, 2005 @ 8:38 am
MSM will go back to reporting Halloway? Nancy Grace was STILL covering Halloway last night – the same day as the hurricane landfall.
Not funding hurricane preparations is par for the neocons. They want the poor to die so they are no longer a drag on society. They will prepare expensive drugs to be ready to save the rich and insured (working, i.e. useful people) from a flu pandemic, but they are hoping for it to come and remove some of the “excess population”.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:14 amthis is your big Bush Knew headline? where the hell was ThinkProgress after 9/11? absent like every other “liberal” gatekeeper.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:32 amOf course he cut funding. Of course he pays no heed to warnings. He has one mission: destroy the federal government by decreasing taxes on the wealthy, decreasing funding for all programs designed to benefit the population, and spend as much as he can in the private enterprise area where all his oil cronies and Cheney’s defense cronies make their windfall profits.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:41 amThe man portrays himself as an “everyman’s man” but he is a rich elitist – just read his family history. He has no empathy for the common man, and like most Republicans, he would destroy everything from FDR’s social security to Johnson’s medicare.
The question is how many people will have to suffer incredible loss before America wakes up to the fact they are being pillaged and plundered by this selfish robber baron?
hang on Im prayin………
the king w/o his clothes has asked me to pray, cuz that will save hizzazz.
lord please help us to remove this IDIOT…..twit
August 30th, 2005 at 9:44 amneocon
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August 30th, 2005 at 9:55 amHey, jackasses. Take a few minutes off from your political posturing and do something to actually HELP the citizens of NOLA. What a bunch of single-minded idiots you all are.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:02 amhey Clancy, who are you, and why are you so angry?i dont know if you noticed, but this is a POLITICAL website.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:07 amMuch like yourself, huh Clancy?
August 30th, 2005 at 10:08 amOh, I noticed which site it is on. I think it is sad that your lives cannot get past Bush being president. “Idiots” is quite the fitting word. And with that… I’m off to do something productive with my life.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:11 amClancy,you support President Bush.quite frankly, nothing else needs to be said about you.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:14 amhow does it feel to know the president you support was elected not by the people, but by the supreme court? that obviously still stings. you conservatives have all the power, but you STILL are angry as hell.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:17 amHaley Barber, the rebublican governer of Mississippi, was once the chairman of the RNC. You can bet he’ll get all the disater relief he asks for and then some.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:36 amI know, C; he comes to a political website (obviously taking time out from “helping”) to slap us on the wrist. We start to see the true ilk coming out of the people that voted for this clown. There seems to be two separate repub factions now – the ones like Clancy who will side with Bushco no matter how stupid he looks (neocons) and then there are the ones ripping the W off of their SUVs in embarrassment (moderates). Rageaholics like Clancy are reaching a boiling point. They can no longer hide behind the “we are the majority” platform, which makes them very angry. They are fast going the way of Falwell, Gingrich or Robertson – just nutjobs.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:36 amdont worry, the next “terror attack” and insuing fear mongering from this administration will get those moderate republican sheep back on board.they are so gullible.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:38 am#9 – CC – If we appeal for help, most definitely other countries will come up with disaster relief. But we can take care of ourselves so we don’t need an international appeal.
You’re also slightly minimizing the scale of the Tsunami tragedy – 200,000 dead in countries where “evacuation routes” are non-existent.
Let’s focus on helping Katrina victims now, worry about how much Sri Lanka is helping us later…
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
August 30th, 2005 at 10:54 amLouisiana Nat’l guard complained earlier this month that “dozens of high water vehicles, humvees, refuelers and generators are now abroad [in Iraq], and in the event of a major natural disaster that, could be a problem.”
http://abc26.trb.com/news/natguard08012005,0,4504131.story?coll=wgno-news-1
August 30th, 2005 at 11:01 amI agree Darth — need to focus on helping the victims, not on talking about who helps whom. I was just trying to make the point that the U.S. is pretty generous in terms of international aid. Probably more generous than any other country. It would be nice to see some of that generosity returned.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:06 am#7
Your argument is totally fallacious as the Duty Idiot from Crawford has never had an original thought in his life. Daddy moves his mouth and Uncle Dick moves the spot where his brain should be.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:21 amCC, we are not the most generous in terms of percentage of GDP. And that is the measure Bush likes to use for the deficit (not a record high), gas and oil prices (only 2/3 or 1980 prices), etc.
Help like disaster relief goes from the rich to the poor, not the other way around. Suggesting the poorest nations should help us out is cold hearted, to say the least. It’s like asking a homeless guy for all his change to help pay for your car tuneup.
You really must understand that we are richer than every other country. If all countries had the same GDP, then you could legitimately ask that question.
August 30th, 2005 at 11:49 amI’m going to say it because no one else has…
I believe the title of that memo was, “Hurricane determined to strike the U.S.”
August 30th, 2005 at 11:50 ambut thats so vague cynical…….
August 30th, 2005 at 12:36 pm#31 – True, CC, it would be good to see our generosity returned. In a sense, Sri Lanka for example has long been returning it to us by exporting garments to us for unbelievably low prices…
August 30th, 2005 at 1:26 pmIn these times of American hyper-partisanship, even the response to an act of God like hurricane Katrina is revealing.
The disaster, which devastated the extremely red states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, brought no snide claims of “divine retribution” from the voices of the left. No one declared that a just God wrought vengeance upon the South for its sins of slavery, succession, civil war, Jim Crow or more recently, its coronation of George W. Bush. Instead, the liberal blogosphere, led by sites like DailyKos, urged readers to come to the aid of their fellow Americans, providing news updates, offers of shelter for refugees and support for the Red Cross.
Contrast that reaction to the compassionate conservative response of the radical right to acts of God – and man. Time and after time, the mouthpieces of the American Taliban that now have the ear of the President and the wallet of the Republican Party praised the wrath of an angry God that smited their enemies for a laundry list of sins and perversions…
For the full story, see:
“Hurricanes, Divine Retribution and the Right.”
August 30th, 2005 at 1:41 pm#36 that’s a good point. They have been kind enough to keep their people in poverty working for pennies a day so that we can enjoy everyday low prices. Now THAT’s giving!
August 30th, 2005 at 2:00 pmUS ranks 20th in giving economic aid (per capita).
Little Luxembourg ranks 1st.
From http://www.nationmaster.com:
 Definition: The net official development assistance (ODA) from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nations to developing countries and multilateral organizations. ODA is defined as financial assistance that is concessional in character, has the main objective to promote economic development and welfare of the less developed countries (LDCs), and contains a grant element of at least 25%. The entry does not cover other official flows (OOF) or private flows. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.
Amount
1. Luxembourg $313.71 per person
2. Norway $304.80 per person
3. Denmark $300.05 per person
4. Netherlands $243.79 per person
5. Sweden $188.85 per person
6. Switzerland $146.87 per person
7. Belgium $103.43 per person
8. France $89.02 per person
9. Finland $72.55 per person
10. Ireland $70.47 per person
11. United Kingdom $69.48 per person
12. Germany $67.93 per person
13. Austria $63.53 per person
14. Japan $62.00 per person
15. Canada $60.96 per person
16. Australia $44.49 per person
17. Spain $32.96 per person
18. Portugal $25.64 per person
19. New Zealand $24.70 per person
20. United States $23.33 per person
21. Italy $17.21 per person
22. Lesotho $0 per person
23. United Arab Emirates $0 per person
24. Saudi Arabia $0 per person
25. Korea, South $0 per person
Weighted Average $50.71 per person
August 30th, 2005 at 4:24 pmEvery day since WWII, the President has been informed of the likelyhood of total world destruction on that particular day. No amount of funds will stop catastrophies such as Katrina, or future catastrophies such as the ‘big one’ in California, nor will any amount of funds lessen the impact of those catastrophies. In fact, spending money in the name of safety for those areas prone to natural disaster only increases the number of people willing to risk living in those places. Further, having a protective infrastructure supposedly makes managing disasters easier, but in reality they add to the impact of the disasters such as Katrina.
Think, people.
August 30th, 2005 at 6:52 pmSome of these people Eric are too busy thinking up new names to call people……
Since some of you folks are incapable of thinking past your labels, not all Republican’s are like Bush, and not all Democrats are like some of the moron’s in that party.
In order for us to return this country to the people, the people have to quit choosing sides and putting others under a label. Name calling didn’t work for you as a kid (just like your mother told you), it certainly doesn’t change anything in our government. Compromise and discussion is at the heart of our country. I guess some of you missed that part
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