Re: Bush Slashed Flood Control Budget To Pay For Wars

"Mason A. Clark" <masoncERASETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:54:08 -0400, "Steven L. Robinson" <srobin21@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defense budget to pay for wars
>>
>>By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
>>Published: 04 September 2005
>>
>>http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310195.ece
>>
>>Vital measures to protect New Orleans from "catastrophic" hurricane damage
>>were scrapped by the Bush administration to pay for its wars on terror and
>>in Iraq, despite official warnings of impending disaster.
>
> It's too easy to blame Bush. If all the repairs he prevented had been done
> the levies would have failed. Reasons: both time and inadequacy.
>
> Doing the *blame Bush* thing gets in the way of finding the real problem.
>
> I suggest these:
>
> 1. New Orleans, a city below sea level and squeezed between a lake and a
> river in a hurricane area, did not (and will not) make sense. It was an
> historical error.

The port of New Orleans does make sense. It is just more
expensive to maintain than the port in Houston. Maybe you
think we should rebuild the port in Death Valley where it will
be much safer from hurricanes. And the point is that it would
have cost far less to prevent this disaster than it is now
going to cost to recover from it. If there are insufficent funds
to wage Pinocchio's war AND maintain the infrastructure
of the USA then some of us would see the priorities much
differently.

>
> 2. The anarchic politics that has developed in the U.S. since about
> 1970 has left gaps in the infrastructure. New Orleans only one
> example. Open cockpits on air liners was another.

Yet another attempt at Republican apology. Let us find some
more platitudes to sling around so as to present a beatific
appearance and reinforce the notion that "God works in
mysterious ways". The lying pig Repugnicans seem to be
able to get away with whatever they want by prancing around
claiming that God is on their side. Any day now we will see
Pat Robertson claiming that New Orleans was destroyed by
the Almighty because the people were sinful.

> 3. Money as free speech, an interpretation of the Constitution, has
> so corrupted U.S. politics that we no longer have a democracy.
> This makes many policy decisions go against public interest.

This makes _ALL_ policy decisions go against public interest.

> 4. another others?
>
> Mason C

Yes. The deterioration of the nation was launched in
1910 when the aristocratic congress voted to limit the
membership to 435. The 16th and 17th amendments
then proceeded to strip any form of control by the
people of the nation. The arrival of the Repugnicans
in 1980 and the now total control over the nation by a
pack of lying fascist pigs is to be expected. It remains
to be seen whether the Repugnicans can actually win
their war of lies and deceit and voting machine control
so as to maintain control while they finish dismembering
what was a representative democracy.

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of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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