This is the government that REPUKES WANT.

[Lindacooks]

THIS is the limited federal government. PEOPLE DIE when the federal government is underfunded and limited. NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND, you effing freepers??

[TomInTib]

1. Drowning in the bathtub

that was New Orleans.
Thanks Grover Norquist you jerkoff.

[friesianrider]

2. The Fed isn;t underdunded...it's just spent on fucking wars of choice.

Gosh, I'll bet what we spend in Iraq in one fucking MONTH could feed, water, and clothe ALL these poor victims for three months.

NOW do we understand the cost of this war? Now do you get it you fucking Bush supporters?

And we think we're prepared if another terrorist attack happens?

[Inland]

4. Only the good stuff is underfunded.

Idiot stuff like Iraq invasion, Halliburton contracts, bridges to nowhere, etc. are funded twice over.

[friesianrider]

5. That's very true...underfunded in favor of bullshit Halliburton contracts.

Americans are getting what they wanted - a do-nothing, heartless, stupid, lazy President who sits on his ass while watching people die from his million-dollar ranch eating the finest foods money can buy.

[bribri16]

3. A lot of Bush supporters don't know they are among the poor and

forgotten. They will know if ever a disaster like this hits them too.

[deadparrot]

6. The wrong PARTS of the federal government are underfunded.

Education, disaster relief, social programs in general...

Personal freedoms, on the other hand, are firmly under the thumb of the nutcases.

[Lisa]

7. well, yes -- why give anything away for free, when you can profit from it?

And the traditional calamities of war, famine, pestilence, and death are big money-making opportunities! Get Halliburton in there to "rebuild" New Orleans. Those old-fashioned ideas like "community" and "benefit to society" are so much sentimentalism -- education and health care aren't human rights, they're industries which must be used to squeeze as much cash out of desperate people as possible. (They're also very good to use as "bait", to keep your citizens in line -- "no college for you unless you join the military", or "complain about safety conditions at work and we'll fire you, so you and your family can't afford health care anymore".

Of course, churches and private charities will step in to fill the gap. So some of them won't help out those who aren't in their special demographic ... but the rabble who fall through the cracks clearly are undeserving, and we can "improve" society this way. (The eugenics advocates were pushing this a hundred years ago.)

Naturally, those religious groups who want to advocate social/political policy which isn't neo-conservative are clearly Communists in disguise, and must be reined in (liberation theology) or have their charity status revoked (Unitarians have been threatened with this recently).

A society with threadbare social services and public infrastructure, and a huge gap between rich and poor, that falls apart in a disaster? Oh, we have lots of these in the world today. They're called ... what's the term ... ah yes, "developing countries".


Didn't Americans spend several generations of toil trying to escape exploitation and put up enough political and economic safeguards to get out of that kind of situation?