Bush should be "impeached" - New Orleans is underwater -- 80% budget cut

[cthrumatrix]

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness.

On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "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."

Also that June, with the 2004 hurricane season starting, the Corps' project manager Al Naomi went before a local agency, the East Jefferson Levee Authority, and essentially begged for $2 million for urgent work that Washington was now unable to pay for. From the June 18, 2004 Times-Picayune:

"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them."
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313

[Zuni]

1. He also cut Fed Flood prevention funding 44% for LA

as well as cuts in the FEMA budget

[IdaBriggs]

2. Kicked and nominated! nt

:angry:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. Here, let me give it a kick too..... send this out to EVERYONE.

[cthrumatrix]

3. congress turned their backs as well (feel good guys?????)

The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed, "The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House. ... In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need."

Local officials are now saying, the article reported, that had Washington heeded their warnings about the dire need for hurricane protection, including building up levees and repairing barrier islands, "the damage might not have been nearly as bad as it turned out to be."


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_di...

[fooj]

4. We need to media blast this!

The WORLD needs to know that the rat bastard sold his own people out...AGAIN!

Peace.

[Webster Green]

7. Absolutely!

This needs to get everywhere!

Kicked and nominated! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Liberty Belle]

11. Nominated. I sent this to Olbermann.

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Let's not limit responibilty to Jr.

Republicans control the House and Senate - they passed the budget.

Let's get those votes on record!

[cthrumatrix]

9. Bush was briefed in 2001 this was one of 3 national security

disasters...so he cut's funding...WTF?

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[mom cat]

42. He doesn't give a damned about national security, America or

Americans. His sole interest is thw wealth of his cronies. The rest of us peons are expendible!

[Lefty48197]

8. Here's anonther link with some shocking quotes:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367

"There is an economic ripple effect, too. The cuts mean major hurricane and flood protection projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now."

"Landrieu said the Bush administration is not making Corps of Engineers funding a priority. I think it's extremely shortsighted, Landrieu said. When the Corps of Engineers' budget is cut, Louisiana bleeds. These projects are literally life-and-death projects to the people of south Louisiana and they are (of) vital economic interest to the entire nation."

"One of the hardest-hit areas of the New Orleans district's budget is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes..."

"The district has identified $35 million in projects to build and improve levees, floodwalls and pumping stations in St. Bernard, Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles parishes. Those projects are included in a Corps line item called Lake Pontchartrain, where funding is scheduled to be cut from $5.7 million this year to $2.9 million in 2006..."

[Liberty Belle]

10. Send this to every Louuisiana Republican and urge them to impeach Bush,

and support Barbara Lee's resolution of inquiry.

Can someone post their names and e-mail addresses?

This should also be posted in the Louisiana section here.

[arcos]

12. Kicked and recommended! This should be at the top of the greatest page.

[Junkdrawer]

13. And, having sent the NG and $300,000,000,000.00 plus to Iraq...

the Federal government will have to cheap out the recovery...

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Bush's three tax cuts cost a lot more than Iraq...

EDIT: Frivolous tax cuts!

[Junkdrawer]

15. How do they compare on an annual basis?

I'm guessing about the same? :shrug:

[Hubert Flottz]

21. I think we went from a 2.5 trillion dollar surplus to a 3 trillion ...

dollar deficit in about three years, mainly because of those tax cuts. Of course they blame it all on 9/11, like they do everything else, but that's just another Bush lie!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong...

[Junkdrawer]

24. 2001 thru 2005, the tax cuts cost $819 billion...

http://www.cbpp.org/2-2-05tax.htm

so that's about $200 billion per year...

Now, I think the cuts get bigger in the out years...The multi-trillion dollar numbers are for the 10 year life of the cuts...

[Hubert Flottz]

29. I think you're right...

What was the final figure on the total budget last year? That doesn't include the money for the war on Terra BTW.

Anyway, if Congress would repeal the tax cuts, we might be in a LOT BETTER SHAPE by next year!

[Junkdrawer]

30. No argument here. n/t

[bucknaked]

16. Great info! Spreading the word, as I type!

eom

[Igel]

17. Any word on what Congress actually approved?

The proposal goes to motive; but they passed the final budget late. Much later than June '04.

It's not unheard of for Congress to pass a budget with different amounts than the prez proposes.

[kenny blankenship]

18. You may be feeling like me that this is surely the last straw

the camel's back is broken at last. Tomorrow morning, lawmakers from both parties will get together face to face or via videoconferencing, and without a single allusion to the bitter divide that separates them on every other occasion, they will solemnly pledge to launch, expedite and complete a process of impeachment and trial to remove George Bush from office before the end of the week.

But look who we're talking about. The Republican leadership is Denny's oneman buffet buster Hastert and his evil mommy Tom "corrupt-as-I-wanna-be" Delay.

It's not going to happen. Unless the people converged on Washington and demanded it. Then it would happen.

[cthrumatrix]

19. we need the last "dot"....and that is weather control for MIHOP

[kenny blankenship]

27. weather control?

sorry, I swore allegiance to the reality-based community, and I intend to stick by that pledge.

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[Marymarg]

20. Republicans should lead

the call for impeachment. They are in the majority. He is their President. It is their duty to protect the Office of the Presidency and, being the super-patriots they all claim to be, they should have the courage to step up and call for his resignation, start impeachment proceedings if he refuses to resign, and if they cannot bring themselves to do that, they should resign, themselves.

The Democrats, of course, should support them in this. But to prevent worse partisanship, and to try to bind some wounds, the Republicans should have the opportunity to "do the right thing."

[mom cat]

43. I hope that this wakes up some of the "solid South", but I doubt it.

[BikeWriter]

22. bushit's war for Halliburton helped kill...

every man, woman, and child who died in New Orleans!

[BikeWriter]

23. Recommended, kicked, posted and promoted on my own forum!

[CrispyQ]

25. I'm sending this thread to every repub I know.

kick

[Usrename]

26. Spineless idiot would just resign.

Making things even worse. It is why he was put here, to make things worse.

:grr:

[arcos]

28. kick! nt

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[cthrumatrix]

32. number 1 he was informed in 2001, he funded a study in 2004

and cut funding in 2005

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[cthrumatrix]

36. here - bush was told in 2004 what would happen (even paid $500k for study)

http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm



IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana
June 3, 2004

IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November. National weather experts are predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with six to eight hurricanes, of which three could be categorized as major.

The IEM team will complete a functional exercise on a catastrophic hurricane strike in Southeast Louisiana and use results to develop a response and recovery plan. A catastrophic event is one that can overwhelm State, local and private capabilities so quickly that communities could be devastated without Federal assistance and multi-agency planning and preparedness.

Thomas said that the greater New Orleans area is one of the nation’s most vulnerable locations for hurricane landfall.

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[KerryOn]

40. You beat me to it....

... I was just getting ready to post the same thing. here is another article:

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

[Karmadillo]

41. Self-delete

nt

[arcos]

44. kick nt

[autorank]

45. That was my thought exactly when the barrier broke! Well, I've thought

that a long time but this event...losing an entire city...this is impeachment time.

He's on TV now with his fucking cabinet behind him. I won't turn it on. I see the traitor Nomr Minetta, and stupid Gayle what's her face Interior Secretary, now they show a looter and this is CNN.

It's impeachment time. All of them, exiled to a Micronesian island destined to sink during global warming.

[Spurt]

46. Now that is just too evil.

autorank said...
"All of them, exiled to a Micronesian island destined to sink during global warming."

Now that is just too evil.
Lovely Micronesia doesn't deserve the bastards. Further, when the island sinks the obvious result will be an ocean polution crisis as their stinking corpses are engulfed. It'll never be safe to swim in the ocean again!

[autorank]

48. OK Spurt, Welcome to DU!!! I put my thinking cap on...

:dunce: thimkinq...all right, Pitcairn Island, that's it!!! A bountiful array of harsh weather, steep rocky hills, and little chance to leave. Yeah, that's it. Pitcairn Island: "Ahoy mates! You're going ashore!"


Located 1/2 way between Panama and Tahiti, Pitcairn Island is in the middle of nowhere. With 40 ornery inhabitants, descendants of the Fletcher Christian Mutiny on the Bounty, our winners will get a warm reception.

The annual "Bounty Burn" is a cathartic celebration of bitterness and victimization.

You'll enjoy your stay and the residents will enjoy tormenting you as representatives of the forces of authority the love so much.

[Spurt]

51. no no no

Far too comfortable. Lots of food, interweb access, visiting cruise ships and freighters.

I'm thinking an active volcanic island somewhere.......

...unpopulated...desolate...harsh...unforgiving.......hell on earth.

(With web cams so we can all watch fair retribution being served.)

[autorank]

52. Vicarious gratification...good. Global warming will "bring something up."

;)

[paineinthearse]

47. JC ties this all toghether at

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2049693&mesg_id=2049693

[jokerman93]

49. This criminal government has lost its credibilty.

That's the same as losing its authority.

[arcos]

50. kick nt