Bush only cares about two kinds of people: "the haves and the have mores"

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel09.html

2 deadly sins did Big Easy in

The terrible, tragic mess in New Orleans reflects and adds to the economic and social mess in the whole country. The foolish, endless war in Iraq has pushed the national debt beyond all reasonable limit.

The tax benefits for President Bush's friends, "the haves and the have mores" as he called them in an unwise slip of the tongue, have aggravated the deficit problems for which the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren will have to pay. Much of the debt is owned by the Chinese, who have also taken over the clothing market. Median family income and real wages fell again this year (according to the Wall Street Journal) and the proportion of the country that lives in poverty has risen again. The cost of gasoline climbs almost every day because the obscenely profitable oil companies have not plowed any money into building new refineries for the last 15 years. The proportion of people without any health insurance also has increased.

Many industries -- airlines and automotive especially -- are trying to make money by outsourcing jobs to other countries and curtailing the salaries and benefits of workers. The most notable of the offending industries -- Big Oil and Big Pharma -- are piling up profits squeezed from lifeblood of the working and middle class. No one cares about poverty anymore, so long as it is limited to the poor (like the people who couldn't escape from New Orleans because they couldn't afford autos).

Now the country faces the task of rebuilding a major city and its port and its oil refineries and the rest of its crucial industries and its flood control system and providing new homes for the homeless of the city, which is practically everyone. One has to ask where the money will come from. The administration will characteristically talk big but do the job on the cheap, just as it has done the Iraq war with its inadequate body armor, unprotected vehicles, amphibious landing craft used as tanks and not enough troops. New Orleans has become our second contemporary Big Muddy, and it will be mishandled as badly as the first. Karl Rove will doubtless spin it all into a big victory for the president.

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1. The survivors in New Orleans were neither...!

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2. Too bad Joe six pack repug doesn't realize that.

"God, Abortion, Guns, Gays. Thanks a bunch! you "Value Voters" :banghead:

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3. or what he likes to call, his "base"

The privileged and the entitled are his people...nobody else registers as anything more than a number to him.

Hence we get things from him like "I know how hard it is to put food on your family"...we know what he was attempting to say, but he can't say it because he doesn't know anything of the sort. He and his ilk can never comprehend poverty and need, because they are the scions of wealth and privilege. It is not real to them, and they just don't care.