Administration's figures on response don't appear to add up

[sabra]

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/12575547.htm

Administration's figures on response don't appear to add up

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - In an effort to show the world that it's finally on top of the catastrophe unleashed by Hurricane Katrina more than a week ago, the Bush administration is producing a seemingly impressive battery of statistics.

Since Friday, as criticism has mounted against the administration for its perceived failure to act sooner, officials have sought to tangibly catalog crucial results, such as "lives saved," "people assisted" and "citizens evacuated."

But a closer look at the administration's claims shows some of the most important numbers seem to contradict each other, including assertions made as recently as Tuesday afternoon about the number of people rescued from life-threatening situations.

In other cases, the numbers seem, at best, to be crude estimates, though they are not presented that way when uttered or released by administration officials.

[elehhhhna]

1. They're all Grads of MSU

Make Shit Up.

[sabra]

3. well the media is finally checking them for it.

[bettyellen]

7. it's shocking, isn't it?

[TheModernTerrorist]

19. watrch it!

some of us are actually GRADS of Michigan State University... -_-;;


and for the record, we're not ALL dumb. Just the alcoholics...

[kurtyboy]

24. MSU = Make Shit Up (I think...)

NT

[stillcool]

2. ooh...i just got a headache reading that one...... n/t

[bemildred]

4. Clue: they are lying their asses off. nt

[Rose Siding]

5. Thank you, Knight Ridder! I also have questions about the #s in TX

Perry said Sunday that TX had 220,000, give or take. The NG said, when evac was suspended Sat pm, that they'd been busing up to 1,000 an *hour*. They started sometime Thurs -So up to 48 hours, max.

48,000 or 220,000?

edit- *Not* questioning TX's generosity, just Perry's calculations.

[sabra]

8. it's great to see the media stepping up!

[Judi Lynn]

15. Maybe it occured to someone that eventually the people will know

who is here and who isn't, and the numbers of the dead through _Bush indifference will STILL come out.

People will turn against the media if they don't start mending their ways now that it will be possible to see how they've been the willing servants of their sociopathic pResident.

This is the test the media will need to pass.

[Igel]

20. Many--the majority--of the "evacuees" that Texas has

accepted drove out on the Sunday before Katrina.

Some came here on Saturday.

Not all come from NOLA. Some come from other places in LA. And Mississippi.

I saw flocks of "evacuees" today, mostly white, some black, in their SUVs, pickups, and cars. They're staying in hotels and in shelters. There's a FEMA center adjacent to the apt. complex I live in. Those 400k+ people that left NOLA ahead of Katrina ... they went somewhere.

Question Texas' generosity. Question Perry's calculations.

But mostly question what an 'evacuee' is.

[ignatius 2]

6. Good Christ, isn't that what this administration does best, tell lies?As a

matter of fact, they even tried to set up a department of misinformatiom.I believe they shut it down when congress,finally,was outraged about something these lunatics have done,

Cooking the numbers and the books is a repug trick way back from Rayguns time.

[struggle4progress]

9. ".. And we invented 100,000 phony numbers to make ourselves look good .."

[dweller]

10. Enronomics ... n/t

dp

[Olney Blue]

11. LOL. How about Voodoo Economics?

[daleo]

12. If Bush wants to take credit for "lives saved" in the win column

He should have "lives squandered" recorded in the loss column. The latter will out-weigh the former when all is said and done. Plus, there is no doubt about a corpse.

[MrTriumph]

13. Bush is king of "fuzzy math"

Bush is king of "fuzzy math"! Gore credited with winning a another debate.

[The_Casual_Observer]

14. What do you bet that none of those figures underestimate

their contributions?

[Roy]

16. It;'s called Iraqmath. No way you can dispute these #'s

nt

[tom_paine]

17. They lie like Soviets

They also know that their figures don't have to add up or their pronouncements even make sense.

They have Fox "News" to cover it up for them, and to blast the airwaves with nonsense until people throw their hands up in confusion otherwise.

[AZCat]

18. Isn't it called...

"Lysenkoism"?

[Igel]

21. Lysenko was a botanist who killed Soviet genetics.

And could have caused a famine.

Taught that conditioned traits were inheritable. By growing wheat in ever colder environments, you'd eventually be able to condition it to grow in Siberia, in near-freezing weather.

A crock, of course.

It failed, and then the next big bourgeois science bugaboo was cybernetics and computers.

[libodem]

22. The billions of tax payers dollars

allotted by the president for aide will probably end up lining the pockets of Halliburton shareholders and doing very little to aid the people...just like Iraq...millions of dollars will come up missing and nobody will have to account for it....they haven't had to keep honest accountability in Iraq for the dead civilians...why start now, who wants to know, anyway?...whose business it it anyway how many get helped and how?...why should they be accountable?...there is already no limit to their corruption...and already no consequences...no one does audits? no one calls for statistics...I'm sure it's all classified and we the people don't deserve to know...that's because spending taxpayers dollars only matter...that it's wasteful and undeserved charity if it's for health, education and welfare....not if it's contracted out to pay private corporations and arms cartells....edit typo

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. 8 Billion in Cash sent to Iraq in the 2003 unaccounted for. . . . nt