Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
‘Times-Picayune’ Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0831-04.htm

`Engineering Nightmare’: Water Keeps Rising in New Orleans
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0831-08.htm

The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0831-27.htm

2005 Set to be Historic Year for Hurricanes
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0831-05.htm

Wetlands erosion raises hurricane risks
Natural storm ’speed bump’ around New Orleans now missing
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/2438#comment-18492

Lst anyone acuse me onf doing nothing let me tell you that we are organizing a community-wide collection of goods to take to the victims overflowing Shrevepirt’s Hirsch Coliseum and the hospitals, one of which my brother-in law works at and cooringdinating with the Red Cross. We may not have much, but since we live on 10 acrees aon a rivebank and border the antional Forest, those willig to camp and have their animals with them, are welcome. We won’t be coming back with empty vehicles after delivering the much-needed supplies.

We are p[repared to take in cats, dogs, “pockets petsm” even snakes * over 245 yerds of caring for them), and many chickens. We are on Farm Sanctuary’s ist to take them in. Right now, we can only accomodatre 12-20, but if we fget our lng-awaited expenasion built, we can house 10 tiwmees tht number with no prioblem. Hw may of the reich wing bloggers and cometers are dong this? I would guess not many. We may be financially-challened, but we are not “poor” OPur welath just takes different forms.

Those tht may wish to check me out can tead my latet ost on my blog at http://cyberactivist.blogspot.com/ which was written before we knew about Farm Sanctuaruy’s plea. I understand that many of you are in cities and cannot take in suych aimals, but your support, both financiall and moral. will be greatly appreciated. We are still trhiiing to figure out howe to take tcare of that many people and animals, but where there id a will there is a way.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.”
–Anne Frank

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale

If we keep selling out ur future for short term gains at the expense of long-terms gains, this will continuie to happen.

Some of you want sources, how about sime of these?

Hmmmm….I seem to recall Bush being given a Presedential Daily Briefing on Aug 6th 2001 entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack inside the U.S.” and his response was to go on vacation for the month of August.

So what type of “monumental project” do you think Bush would have undertaken? Clearly the “monkey boy” is not suited for the job of President.

The time to do something is now for New Orleans and the rest of our country. My vote has already been submitted for impeachment. http://www.votetoimpeach.org/

“Cowardice asks the question – is it safe? Expediency asks the question – is it politic? Vanity asks the question – is it popular? But conscience asks the question – is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage—torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians—which does not change its moral color when it is committed by  our side. & The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
- George Orwell

“You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
- Abraham Lincoln

Look up “Historical Budget Data” at http://www.cbo.gov. 2004 Individual Income tax receipts were down 20% since 2000. Corporate Income Taxes down 9% and Estate and Gift taxes down 15%. At the same time the GDP grew by 19%. So much for historic highs.

Next time a rightwing-nut starts spewing this trickle-down drivel, be sure to have the FACTS at hand.

Especially in light of the fact this admin created a huge new agency just after 9/11 to deal with these very kinds of disasters?

All anyone has ever said is that Bush should be held responsible for cutting levee funding. That’s only one part of the problem; no doubt local and state officials carry blame, no doubt civil engineers carry some blame, no doubt the disaster planners at Homeland Security and FEMA carry some blame. But the first reaction of every *EVERY* wing nut troll I’ve seen on the internet is to *COMPLETELY* absolve Bush of any wrongdoing. And that’s what makes you and your kind whores, Frank D. You put your president’s poll number before the lives of your countrymen.

Bush already sent $10 Billion down there…

If that’s not enough, ask Kerry and Soros — they have plenty.

This whole thread is tryly a waste of time and ink.

Lefties will always blame Bush for anything and everything — even hurricanes.

Interestingly, all this improvement was supposed to have taken place between 1990 and now.

Were there no hurricanes, no levees, no Cat 3’s or 4’s or 5’s to worry about before 1990?

This whole thread could have been reduced to two posts: Bush is no good , and How could it be his fault?

Everything else is BS

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That, my friends, is the Bush administration. No more need be said.

Except that every president I have lived under, Republican and Democrat, has had the good of the people somewhere in their (often very misguided) hearts. It becomes clearer and clearer every day that nothing motivates George Bush besides a bully’s vindictiveness and a smug sense of entitlement and privilege. He has never sacrificed anything he values for his country, nor would he ask his friends to do so. His compassion for the NO victims is no deeper than the camera lens, and it shows.

The former head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that handles the infrastructure of the nation’s waterways, said the damage in New Orleans probably would have been much less extensive had flood-control efforts been fully funded over the years.

“Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in,” said Mike Parker, a former Mississippi congressman who headed the engineering agency from 2001 to 2002.

“I’m not saying it would have been totally alleviated but it would have been less than the damage that we have got now.”

Parker goes on to say that the blame for the slow repairs and fixes can’t be placed entirely on the Bush administration. Fair enough. But I’d say Parker pretty much backs up TomY’s position. As for Phile, why don’t you quite carrying water for the Bush administration and start carrying some out of NO?

Real federal assistance will be required for these people: food, clothing, medical assistance, and shelter for one million people for a period extending to anywhere up to a decade. Real leadership will be required to do this, together with billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars in funding. Do you think your boy can handle this? Or can we expect more tax cuts for the rich when Congress reconvenes?