When the levee breaks..the money went to the war, not New Orleans

[Mari333]

When the levee breaks
It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.

-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.









http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html

[rodeodance]

1. Congress should hold hearings on this disaster. but then it is like the

fox guarding the chickencoup!!

[havocmom]

2. Willing to wager ANY emergency in the HOMELAND will be met with sad

tales that there is just no money to deal with it. But the Corporations and the top 1% are all doing just swell.

Every time ANY neocon come out to speak, we need to shout them down with "WHERE'S OUR GUARD?" Make the bastards afraid to show up in public for the rest of their miserable lives.

It's hard work, stealing every resource in the nation, huh george? Have to cut the vacation short two days to make sure the poor don't cost the Haves and Have Mores anything in these troubled time.

Where's a gator when ya need one.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

3. Will the news whores report this?