Posted on 08/30/2005 7:04:35 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I was going to type a snide/smart comment - but I am actually without words. This is quite possibly the most obsurd thing I have read or heard all day.
I really WANT the left-wing looney-tunes Bush-bashers to keep it up. Every time they say something they reach a higher plateau of stupidity. They will eventually lose because everyone will be laughing so hard at them their message won't get through.
It's not nice to fool with Mother Rove either...
Hmmmm....
Now that you mention it, I thought he looked a little...."funny".
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It would be funny if it weren't for the fact that many people do think this way, and articles like this perpetuate that thinking.
And so it begins....
wouldnt have mattered since that state is so corrupt even if they did build up to date systems they would have been built sub standard and signed off by a corrupt building official. At which point they would have failed anyway.
Wasn't the Kyoto Treaty drafted during the Clinton administration? And didn't Bill wisely refuse to sign it? So why isn't all this his fault?
They've been spending money for 40 years and couldn't get the job done? Seems as though the money was squandered.
I'm still trying to figure out how a State problem is the Federal government's fault?
What else is his fault? Perhaps that he's not fighting back.
And I thought it was Halliburton with top secret weather control equipment in Dick Cheney's basement trying to boost the profits of George Bush's oil buddies. Figures. Jeb Bush had no businees letting that hurricane go past Florida...
The Kyoto treaty banned hurricanes...
The federal government has jurisdiction over our navigable rivers and inland waterways. And the Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with building/operating/maintaining a vast system of locks, dams and levees to control the flow of water as best they can.
There is no way of knowing for certain, of course, whether the proposed levee improvements would have withstood the catastrophic forces of Katrina. But you would have to assume that upgrades and improvements would have fared better than postponement of those projects.
Bottom line: the Bush Administration IS responsible for placing a lower priority on maintainence of this domestic infrastructure. There's not much that can be done now except to sit back and watch the administration apologists squirm, spin, dodge, dance and weave their way out of accepting responsibility for not addressing these infrastructure issues.
And people wonder why we jokingly say "It's Bush's Fault" on every bad news thread.
We live with the same stupid attitude in NC. Fools build their houses in areas prone to disaster and then whine when the government doesn't take care of them. A pox on all of them.
"It makes no sense to build a city below sea level and in a vulnerable location. Let's take ALL the public money now being spent on illegal aliens and use it to relocate the devastated Americans!"
Or...why don't we let in another million aliens, send them to NO and give them a pail and have them start bailing. Might save some money on new pumps.
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