Bush cut Fed flood prevention funding for Louisiana 44%

[Zuni]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2049007

this is a link to a thread that posted an article from Salon.com

he also vetoed an Army Corps of Engineers project involving the

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index_np.htmlLevies

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

[mom cat]

1. I did not realize that it was that high...He should be driven from office.

[Fenris]

2. Yeah, life is great when domestic government funding is reduced to a

trickle.

See, W was just trying to curb government waste!

[Zuni]

3. He gave us those wonderful tax cuts

they just continue to pay for themselves!

[Fenris]

5. Yes! He had the foresight to know NOTHING catastrophic

was going to happen in America on his watch!

A regular George W. Nostradamus, that one is.

[Zuni]

6. hey, at least Saddam won't hurt us

with his non-existent WMDs. If he did have a nuclear weapon, theoretically he might have been able to destroy New Orleans BEFORE Katrina

[Fenris]

9. Yeah, he could have sent one towards New Orleans!

Of course, as we found out at the opening of the invasion, his arsenal of missiles were barely able to pass the Kuwaiti border. But he coulda made it to Louisiana!

[Zuni]

14. Thank goodness we are fighting them there. Iraqis could have invaded

through the port of New orleans. It would have been awful had it happened.

[Fenris]

15. Don't think it hasn't been done before!

Those crafty Brits may one day return and without General Jackson, where will we be?!?!?!?!

[skooooo]

4. That was well-covered and well-discussed..

..by the local press in Louisiana. The people wading water know exactly what happened. The government doesn't give a damn about them because they're poor.

Still you think the Repukes would have been smart enough to protect their own oil interests.

[Zuni]

8. nope. And the oil companies are doing to Bush what they did to Jimmy

Carter---price gouging. Bush gave them more perks than any other President ever and they still are dicking him over.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. they'll come out AHEAD on this.....

lookit the gas price rises

lookit the stock price rises

lookit their insurance coverage

and WHERE do you think the bulk of federal bailout dollars will be going?

[Zuni]

13. oh, Bush will give them a fat tax break like he gave them a few months ago

have the Army rebuild their oil derricks and refineries damaged, even though oil companies are richer than they ever have been in history. It is sick

[librechik]

19. I'll bet the oil cos have big insurance payoffs coming

no doubt they bought flood and disaster insurance, and probably have policies on workers, if any were killed (for them, not the worker's family)

Just my bet--they will also get huge assistance grants from the feds.

They can write it all of, rebuld in the same place, and wait fore the next windfall, er hurricane.

LIHOP worked before, we can expect to see it happen again and again.

[despairing optimist]

7. Shout this from all high places. The whole country needs to know this.

It was only backed into by a commentator from Scientific American magazine who was interviewed by Gwen Ifill tonight on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. The commentator mentioned the FEMA report as well as the original appropriation to the Army Corps of Engineers that was um, cut short for some unexplained reason (at least to NewsHour viewers) three years ago.

[Zuni]

11. this needs to be repeated in every newspaper and TV program

Bush's tax cuts and war in Iraq have caused grave defecits in emergency relief

[skooooo]

18. It was all over NPR this afternoon....

People will hear this, you can bet.

Now Bush not only has Cindy Sheehen on his ass, he will have the entire surviving population of Louisiana and Mississippi on it as well.

[despairing optimist]

24. Oh, but he just said it's time for SS reform again. Rain on his parade?

I want to see him travel the country on a new SS reform tour after Camp Casey and Katrina. Bring him on.

[Karmadillo]

12. We need to "focus like a laser" on this. Not a single media

outlet should be allowed to pretend ignorance of Bush's crime against the American people.

[Zuni]

16. Sean hannity will blame Clinton for not raising the fund 44%

so when Bush took 44% out, it wasn't at normal levels.

[despairing optimist]

17. I forgot to nominate this for the Greatest page. Oversight corrected.

Please, somebody. One more vote and it goes there.

[Zuni]

20. nominate the original thread too

[Zuni]

21. kick

[despairing optimist]

22. Done. Now the original thread has six votes, so it's on the Greatest.

[Zuni]

23. good

I am too sad to be happy about that though

[despairing optimist]

26. Be happy: Dim Son is sinking faster than New Orleans

[sundog]

25. thanks zu