Hold Bush accountable for the flooding in New Orleans!

[saracat]

Send this to every media source and ask them "Why" they aren't holding Bush's feet to the fire over this! This is the most incompetant administration in history!





Among emergency specialists, "mitigation" – the measures taken in advance to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters – is a crucial part of the strategy to save lives and cut recovery costs. 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, and now communities across the country must compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars.

http://www.sfbg.com/38/52/news_fema.html



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.

-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004

[Mass]

1. I agree, but also we should focus on the people

in LA.

I am not answering to your comment here (I agree with it), but to some comments I have seen on GDP those last few days that are totally callous.

Frankly, if some of these people call them liberal or progressive, they can be without me.

[WildEyedLiberal]

2. Someone wanted only to help "Democratic" victims

This person wanted to know if there was a way to ensure that her donations reached only "progressive" hurricane victims. Callous bastards, the lot of them.

[GRLMGC]

3. They are so disgusting nt

[saracat]

4. How can anyone think that way? The only positive thing

that might come out of this is if the red staters see how Bush betrayed them as well.!

[karynnj]

6. But NO like most urban areas is likely to be blue

I think this is a time when we need to forget red state/ blue state.

[JI7]

17. NO is very blue

it's a liberal area. i have never been there but i'm going to spend some time there to try to help them out economically in the near future.

but the problems in New Orleans and other areas that tend to be blue do affect the red areas since the state gets most of their money from the blue areas. and hopefully the red areas will learn this.

[Island Blue]

5. This is a time when there should be no red states or blue state

period. There is a time to think about politics and about winning the political game, and there is a time to think about helping your fellow human beings to survive. Anyone out there only wanting to reach out to "progressive" hurricane victims isn't worthy of the name "progressive" (or human).

[saracat]

7. I agree. But it is a time when accountability should be demanded of our go

No one can prevent an act of nature but we sure as hell can mitigate them. Dubya deflected the Mitigation money to Iraq and that is NOT excusable. Currently he was pushing for more cuts in a game of politics to make Landrieu and the Governor look bad. Bush played politics with the lives of these people and he deserves the lowest place in hell. I only hope the affected people will now see him for what he is. This is new to me and I now realize that he is truly evil.

[Island Blue]

9. Sure, Shrub should be held accountable if there was something

he should have done, but didn't do. (Or something he shouldn't have done, but did do.) No argument here with that. I'm just saying that if you make a donation to help victims the hurricane, you shouldn't be worried about who your assistance is going to help. Trust me, the Red Cross doesn't ask to see your voter registration card or check your party affiliation when handing out hot meals and dry clothes. (Not to say that there are never any problems within that particular organization, just saying I've seen first hand the incredible dedication they show when responding to folks in need after a natural disaster.)

[Mass]

10. This said, he is not the only one...

Whoever wrote this evacuation plan based only on cars in a town where so many people do not have cars and are below federal poverty levels should be held accountable too.

By watching the news tonight, you could see those who stayed in the city were the poorest and the weakest. I dont care if the elected officials of LA and New Orleans are Dems or Republicans. This is simply scandalous.

[karynnj]

14. I had read several years ago, that NO would be one of the hardest

places to evacuate because many key roads would likely not be available. What I don't understand is why they didn't evacuate earlier. They could have ordered all the city buses to do nothing other than act as free shuttles to wherever people could go. (The same with trains - if there are any left.) This really is poor planning as they had to know this could happen.

For earth science last year, my 15 year old had to read a book where a long section was on the attempt to control nature in the NO delta. She hated the book - but remembered it enough to immediately worry about flooding and the availability of fresh water because NO is below sea level and the balance of fresh water coming down the Mississippi has to balance out the salt water coming from the Gulf.

[saracat]

11. I agree with most of what you say.There aren't blue or red victims, but I

I have been a bit leery of the Red Cross, not the workers or the volunteers, but the administration since the 9-11 fiasco about money. But I am grateful they exist and will probably donate to them. All people must be helped.
My own priority is the animals and they have no poltical affiliation for anyone to worry about.And they can't ask for help!

[Island Blue]

13. I know what you mean about the animals

After the floods of Hurricane Floyd in '99 thousands of animals where stranded in NE North Carolina. Local shelters along with the NC State Veterinary School did a remarkable job saving as many animal lives as possible, and reuniting them with their owners (if possible) or finding them new homes. Hopefully there will be stories of animal rescues after this tragedy too.

[JI7]

16. i saw that, it was disgusting and very freeperish

but considering the poster i wasn't too surprised.

[jillan]

8. Fema needs to come out with a statement about their funds being cut

Can you imagine how insane we would look if we start blaming ** for this.

The first statement needs to come from them.

We all know what a bunch of idiots are running / ruining the country.

This could be taken the wrong way if we start bashing them over this tragedy, imho.

And Saracat - I agree with you. There is no place in heaven for these people; and their 'moral values'.:grr: :grr:

[TayTay]

12. I understand what Saracet is saying

The accountability moment will come once the immediate needs of those in deadly peril are met. When that moment comes, remember this. Tuck it away in the back of your mind as you write your checks to the Charitable Relief agency of your choice. (I am waiting on my check as my company will announce a matching fund. Then my hubbie and I can do separate checks and have it count for twice as much. The need will still be there in a week, which is the time this will get put together.)

Death rarely asks to see a green card, is color-blind to hue of your skin, doesn't care what language you speak or whether or not you are a saint or sinner. May God be with these poor people in their hour of need.

May the wrath of God be with those who failed these people. And their time will come.

[saracat]

15. Why would we look insane for blaming Bush for his failing to reinforce the

levees? That is what his refusal to fund the Mitigation fund did. And he pulled the army Corp of Engineers off the project to have them rebuild Iraq! AFTER he was warned about the risks. How does that make us look insane? I think it makes him look nuts and irresponsible! We look negligent NOT to question this!