URGENT input to the senate

[nadinbrzezinski]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4735625

And by the way this is my input

Let me share my input

1.- The Bush Administration must offer its resignation, effective immediately, to the nation. that is the first step. Followed by an apology and an investigation on their role in this, including criminal intent... and if guilty they must pay the price.

2.- Practical. I will have to divide this in several steps

a.- Near term: The people are being scattered to the four winds, making tracking of infectious enteric diseases that can occur anywhere from seven to twelve days harder, as well as dumping this on local states. A national database most be crated and states that take care of these people must be reinforced by FEMA, part of the effort and part the recovery.

b.- Still near term, these people need to be taken care off, psychiatric help may be needed as well as job training as needed.

Long Term

The WPA was a good idea and maybe it must be revived. The ICRC also has practical experience rebuilding large tracts after natural disasters. Instead of concentrating on giving sweet contracts to Halliburton and Bechtel the people must be allowed to rebuild. The ICRC has done this in places like El Salvador and they have the technical experts that can help implement the program, or dust off the WPA. This will help to get the local economy going and the wages paid, in spite of Bush's plan, must be prevailing wages. Otherwise you are just hurting those who are already hurting even more.

The new bankruptcy bill will only make things worst, due to how that bill was written... and yes they shall reap the whirlwind....

All claims for the Federal Flood Insurance must be paid.

Dikes Levies and other systems must be fully financed as they benefit the nation, not only NOLA.

Race Relations:

There was race involved in the response.. and yes I am light skinned living in California and I could tell. So there is a need to restore trust in government, the fact that government can be used for the greater good and that racism will not be tolerated. People who were in charge of making decisions effectively preventing self evacuation must be held accountable by the Federal Government. People must be shown that this will not be tolerated. Enough is enough, and the people must be empowered at the community level to take care of themselves and make the decisions they need to make.

I will remind the members of the committee that disasters of this scope can and have at times led to revolutions, the violent kind... after the people see the unkind measures of those who rule over them. At the very least they have led to changes in a society as they expose the ugly underbelly, so taking these measures will help to alleviate those pressures, though they are not gone.

Sincerely

[undergroundpanther]

1. Corporations need a lid on thier activities

Government secrecy limited,sepertation of powers reinforced like bush team can't be trusted to "investigate" it's own corporate cronies failures and thefts ect.)The rich have to get over thier whiney greed and be taxed lest they use thier money to OWN the government and defaud the poor and smaller guy,Gosh the list could go on for along time..

Support for the poor must not be abandoned and rationalized with debunked false idealogies the rich like to expound on to convince other people who would want to be rich,like"trickle down theories"lassiez faire and social darwinism.These ideas are debunked and do not work in reality,so anyone speaking them as if they did must be questioned.
Any social engineering that glorifies the individual at the expense of a social safety net for all must be abandoned. Even die hard libertarians need public services.