FEMA Cuts 9/28/04 !!!Boy Did These People Have It Right!!!

[spanone]

This story is from last year. Sept. 28, 2004

~snip~ But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half. Communities across the country must now compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars.

As a result, some state and local emergency managers say, it's become more difficult to get the equipment and funds they need to most effectively deal with disasters. In Louisiana, requests for flood mitigation funds were rejected by FEMA this summer ~snip~


http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-09-28/cover_story.html

[fooj]

1. We've got to repeat this story over and over again!

The rat bastard is single-handedly destroying our country!

peace.

[spanone]

4. Rat Bastard....too kind.

[fooj]

5. Treasonous traitor!

Much better, yes?

peace.

[spanone]

9. Treasonous traitor rat bastard.

:smoke:

[ClintonTyree]

2. Sickening..........

will the MSM touch this story? Not on your life. They're too busy blowing bush and making him out as a "resolute" and "steadfast" leader in difficult times. :puke:
Olberman and Stewart HAVE to hear about this, it's the only way anyone else will ever hear of it.

[muwriter]

3. Media blast to major networks, please.

[bribri16]

6. Rethugs should never be elected to office again.!!

Please send this info to all the media outlets and print some Handbills and distribute.

AND DON'T FORGET TO MAIL A CHECK TO THE RED CROSS!!!

[Fridays Child]

7. Kicked and nominated - this is a must read!

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. E-mail links and info to all the Media OUTSIDE the US of A

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China Daily

BBC

Pravda

AlJazeera

Kahleej times

Canadian News outlets like CBC - Globe & Mail - Toronto Star

I'm sure the gang here can come up with a couple of dozen more well read Media outlets . .

let the MSM get it second hand -

they usually print lies first time round anyways . . .

That's My Canuk Observation anyhoo . . .

[stevedeshazer]

10. READ THESE PARAGRAPHS TOO.

In addition, the White House has pushed for privatization of essential government services, including disaster management, and merged FEMA into the Department of Homeland Security -- where, critics say, natural disaster programs are often sidelined by counter-terrorism programs. Along the way, morale at FEMA has plummeted, and many of the agency's most experienced personnel have left for work in other government agencies or private corporations.

In June, Pleasant Mann, a 16-year FEMA veteran who heads the agency's government employee union, wrote members of Congress to warn of the agency's decay. "Over the past three-and-one-half years, FEMA has gone from being a model agency to being one where funds are being misspent, employee morale has fallen, and our nation's emergency management capability is being eroded," he wrote. "Our professional staff are being systematically replaced by politically connected novices and contractors."

[mom cat]

11. Well now, those rich folks really need their tax cuts....Why should they

be asked to support an infrastructure that mainly benefits ordinary folks. They can get in their private jets and get away from any disaster.Why should they be forced to pay for the rest of us ingrates? :sarcasm: