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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
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| 09.02.05
| Robert Tracinski
Posted on 09/06/2005 2:23:41 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
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To: lysie
Not sure where to post this but, I found it interesting. Hope you all do too.
http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/09/ill_wind_may_no.php
September 08, 2005
Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse
Newton Emerson is on great form in the Irish Times today. Since it deserves a much wider play on the Internet. I have permission from him to republish it on the net. It's a rhetorical gem.
By Newton Emerson
As the full horror of Hurricane Katrina sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if this is the end of George Bush's presidency. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that every copy of the US Constitution was destroyed in the storm. Otherwise President Bush will remain in office until noon on January 20th, 2009, as required by the 20th Amendment, after which he is barred from seeking a third term anyway under the 22nd Amendment.
As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if the entire political agenda of George Bush's second term will not still be damaged in some terribly satisfying way.
The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that the entire political agenda of George Bush's second term consists of repealing the 22nd Amendment. Otherwise, with a clear Republican majority in both Houses of Congress, he can carry on doing pretty much whatever he likes.
. . . As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if an official inquiry will shift the blame for poor planning and inadequate flood defences on to the White House. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided nobody admits that emergency planning is largely the responsibility of city and state agencies, and nobody notices that the main levee which broke was the only levee recently modernised with federal funds. Otherwise, an official inquiry will pin most of the blame on the notoriously corrupt and incompetent local governments of New Orleans and Louisiana. . . .
To: lysie
Not sure where to post this but, I found it interesting. Hope you all do too.
http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/09/ill_wind_may_no.php
September 08, 2005
Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse
Newton Emerson is on great form in the Irish Times today. Since it deserves a much wider play on the Internet. I have permission from him to republish it on the net. It's a rhetorical gem.
By Newton Emerson
As the full horror of Hurricane Katrina sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if this is the end of George Bush's presidency. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that every copy of the US Constitution was destroyed in the storm. Otherwise President Bush will remain in office until noon on January 20th, 2009, as required by the 20th Amendment, after which he is barred from seeking a third term anyway under the 22nd Amendment.
As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if the entire political agenda of George Bush's second term will not still be damaged in some terribly satisfying way.
The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that the entire political agenda of George Bush's second term consists of repealing the 22nd Amendment. Otherwise, with a clear Republican majority in both Houses of Congress, he can carry on doing pretty much whatever he likes.
. . . As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if an official inquiry will shift the blame for poor planning and inadequate flood defences on to the White House. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided nobody admits that emergency planning is largely the responsibility of city and state agencies, and nobody notices that the main levee which broke was the only levee recently modernised with federal funds. Otherwise, an official inquiry will pin most of the blame on the notoriously corrupt and incompetent local governments of New Orleans and Louisiana. . . .
To: Not gonna take it anymore
To: prairiebreeze
I hand't seen it any of the times it has been posted before, so the "thread police" should just go away.
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
09/10/2005 12:05:21 PM PDT
by
TruthNtegrity
(The Katrina disaster area extends miles beyond N.O., but from TV, even FNC, you wouldn't know that!)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking Love that line...
Good post. Thanks.
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posted on
09/10/2005 12:06:39 PM PDT
by
lysie
To: lysie
I only posted excerpts but he continues in the desperate columnist vein throughout the piece.
Nice lot of sarcasm for the msm idiots who keep junking up the news.
To: lysie
I know what you are saying. I worked for a Housing Authority for 23 years and during that time things just got worse and worse.
There were people housed in the projects that had been living there since the 40's. Grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren - the units just passed on from one generation to another and the last names never changed.
Every year we received huge grants from HUD to upgrade individual projects and year after year those same projects were destroyed by the residents.
No one worked, they only had to pay 20% of their income for rent and welfare took care of that, drugs ran rampant. Sad that people have no self-esteem and can live that way.
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posted on
09/10/2005 3:05:59 PM PDT
by
jtill
To: prairiebreeze
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posted on
09/10/2005 4:31:20 PM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
(WAKE UP AMERICA!!! You have enemies, within and without, they are communist based.)
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