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The choice is this - throwing more good money and lives into the Iraqi cesspool, or rebuilding the vitality of New Orleans. AP/Ipsos poll:
Which do you think should be the higher priority for government spending?
The war in Iraq……………………………. 31
Recovery from Hurricane Katrina ….. 64
Not sure…………………………………… 5
(via Political Wire)
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Linking to military.com? that leftist rag?
This just goes to show the backwards thinking of 2/3 of the country- taxpayer money should only be spent on missles and tanks- if people want to live in the path of a hurricane, they should have to deal with that mess themselves.
Actually Johhny, it just goes to show that Oliver can find a skewed poll as good as anyone can.
An oversampling of Southern Democrats would be expected to come up with this result.
Oh please, statistics can be used to prove anything. 18% of all people know that.
Too bad Oliver didn’t read past the first question.
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4. What best describes how you feel about federal spending on the recovery from Hurricane Katrina?
Too Much: 20%
About Right: 46%
Not Enough: 28%
5. How confident are you that the money appropriated for recovery from Katrina is being spent wisely?
Total Confident: 33%
Total Not Confident: 66%
6. In general … do you think the government should give
money to local residents to help them recover, or do you think the residents of these areas should live there
solely at their own risk?
Government should give money: 47%
Residents should live at their own risk: 49%
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Not only that, but he linked to an opinion piece by H. Thomas Hayden, who earlier wrote:
and
Is Oliver going soft?
Thanks farris. # 6 is the one OW and liberals don’t even want asked.
You can skew polls to get about ant answer you want. This is no different. Let me control the polls for a while. King William F Buckley!
And as to rebuilding New orleans versus Iraq - why not an option for neither. Phrase the question” Should working Americans be forced to pay for New orleans and Iraq?
Or : Should working Americans sustain the life style of citizens who voluntarily choose to live in an inherently unsafe area?
Or: Should some Federal funds be used to sustain Democracy in the Mideast and fight the war on terror?
Dugger, Like I said, you can make a poll do anything you want it to
New Orleans’ Uninsured Get Primitive Care
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 23, 7:34 PM ET
“Angela Jaster was wearing a turtleneck when she fell and broke her arm and so for days, she didn’t change her shirt because she couldn’t raise her arm.
The swelling stretched the fabric. Even though the pain was nearly unbearable, she did not consider going to the hospital, because in this flooded city there is only one for the uninsured and it doesn’t treat broken bones.
It was only when the pain sent her into a hyperventilating panic several weeks later that her family called an ambulance and had her taken to the convention center.
In the same concrete structure where thousands of fleeing families waited in vain for food and water, they now wait for medical care, dispensed by a skeletal staff of doctors working out of a collection of military tents.
Inside their plastic and canvas walls, the doctors can only offer the most rudimentary care: They can X-ray bones, but not set them. They can draw blood and diagnose an ailment, but not treat it beyond prescribing pills. And with no ER and no capacity to operate, they can’t do much more than stabilize trauma patients before sending them by ambulance elsewhere, often far away.
These tents are all that remain of Charity Hospital, the 270-year-old institution which for generations was the medical epicenter of the city’s uninsured.
With their building flooded, the doctors of the disbanded hospital set up the tents first in a parking lot, then secured a lease inside the convention center. Yet even this bare-bones service is in jeopardy, as the convention center the city’s main economic engine plans to reopen
For the poor in New Orleans’ crumbling health care system, tents have replaced buildings and plastic has replaced walls as the temporary appears to have become permanent.
The ones it hurts the most are people like Angela Jaster, a 51-year-old social worker who suffered an excruciating, yet not life-threatening, injury.
Patients in imminent danger are quickly shipped off by ambulance to one of the seven private emergency rooms in the area.
It’s those who are not quite at death’s door who end up waiting, often as long as six hours, to be seen. If their ailments cannot be treated with a prescription, they are referred to a hospital elsewhere. Often, those hospitals are far away.
In Jaster’s case, the doctors X-rayed her arm inside a tent where images of broken limbs hung like posters. But with no orthopedist on call, she was given an appointment at a hospital a 1 1/2-hour’s drive away to get a cast.
“I don’t have a car. The bus leaves in the evening, they can only see me in the morning and there’s no vacancies in the hotels,” said Jaster, who a month after her fall has run out of options and says she plans to let the break heal on its own, treating the pain with nothing more than ibuprofen, a non-prescription painkiller.
Hers is a medical problem treatable in two visits: One to apply the cast and a second to take it off. Those with long-term health problems requiring multiple hospital visits are among the worst off.
“If you have cancer, my advice is move. If you need dialysis, go. Get out of here. If you have any major illness and are uninsured, we cannot possibly accommodate your needs. You will die sooner if you stay here,” said Dr. Peter DeBlieux, the head of emergency services for what remains of Charity Hospital. ”
I thought that this was America. Apparently we are now so third world that we can’t set and treat broken bones in a major metropolitan area. W’s solution is more tax cuts for the super rich and business class and an endless war on “terra”.
Meanwhile the victims of Administration incompetence continue to suffer in abject poverty and misery with no resources in the richest country in the history of the world.
Surely we can do better.