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Comment by cmw

If I were you I’d be worried about what happens to you when we reinstitute the Sedition Act. Can you do 20 years?

Like I said. Know your facts about something before you spout off about it. Also, please check into the facts about what FEMA’s response is supposed to be.

Oh…one more thing…
Meanwhile, the Louisiana Senator who’s been telling everyone about how the Federal government should have stepped right in, first thing, and done everything, has a bit about FEMA on her web site (pre-Katrina, of course):

http://landrieu.senate.gov/services/agencies.cfm

“DISASTER ASSISTANCE

Emergency management operations for disasters include three phases: preparedness, response, and recovery. In the preparedness phase, state and local governments administer emergency preparedness programs with ongoing activities to help ensure that they are ready to respond to disasters. The Louisiana Department of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for all initial damage assessment prior to federal involvement.

“The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) partially funds disaster assistance and emergency preparedness programs. Victims whose immediate needs are not met by voluntary relief organizations, such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, can register with FEMA.”

And riding a bike on a levee qualifies you to what? Tell me how the biking on the levees are?

If Bush’s appointee in the Corp of Engineers would make comments claiming that Bush’s cuts didn’t have any affect, then it MUST BE TRUE! :>)

The Bush administration would NEVER lie about anything!

The savings by the Bush administration were enormous. Almost $30 million. We all know that spending 4 cents per American for each year over three years would have destroyed the economy!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/corpslackoffundsdidnotcontributetoflooding

Incidentally, I’m not claiming that this excuses their lack of funding… if this had been a Cat 3 hurricane, it probably would have caused the same failures, and that *would* have been prevented by proper funding. However, in this particular case, funding wouldn’t have helped.

You are the ignorant onbe: This a is Structural Engineering problem: If BUSH had not cut the budget, the Corp of Engineers would have re-inforced the Leevees for a category 5 hurican: So DUMMY, thisd is Bush’s ignorance and Stupidty can caused this preoblem

As our federal government has over the past 20 years been running too and fro trying to solve everyone else’s problems in the world, we seem to have forgotten about our own people at home. And New Orleans is just the magnifying glass this country needed to maybe bring it to light.

We seem to be able to find money for every other country in the world, every disaster that comes along we are the first on the ground, but as the old saying goes “charity starts at home” we can seem to approve 300 million dollar per plane (FY-22) for our military but can not seem to approve 22.5 million to help protect one of our countries most prized cities?

And its not just New Orleans, it across our whole country, we are setting ourselves up for a “French Revolution” there is no more “Middle Class” there is the haves and the have not’s! There are those people who live from paycheck to paycheck in an endless cycle of trying to pull there life to the next rung of existence.

The whole while, The White House, Congress and our State Government Fat Cats literally steal the food out of people’s mouths.

To quote a saying…”It’s a big S*#@ sandwich and as usually the poor is going to eat almost all of it”

This also refutes Steve’s silly outburst as well; incorrectly claiming people are blaming Bush for a hurricane when we are blaming him for a total lack of preparedness.

That, and that he was off eating cake, and Condi was buying shoes on 5th Avenue, while New Orleanans were drowning.

It’s taken 7 days to react to this natural disaster. One can only imagine how slow BushCo will react once there is a terrorist attack.

That now TWO national disasters on Bush’s watch that we were warned about and did little. It’s funny how these things just seem to keep following the little silver spooner around, eh? Must be the fault of that damn liberal media again.

Perhaps now is the time to give thought to those who aren’t so fortunate — untold tens of thousands who have yet to be delivered from the poisonous cesspool that much of NOLA has become — and so many more in Mississippi and Alabama who are suffering and will continue to suffer for weeks and months ahead.

We are talking about possibly a million or more Americans who suddenly have lost homes, family, friends, pets, all their belongings and many of the memories that they represent… I can hardly begin to imagine their suffering.

I say set aside the attention being paid to those currently in power and, instead of blaming them for what they did not do, take what clothes, blankets, toys, food, blood, spare rooms, and money we can spare and offer it to help those in such dire need.

Then, when it is time, for those who are truly and knowingly responsible for the many failures that led up to this debacle — may they have their day in the spotlight.