Posted on 09/02/2005 5:57:20 AM PDT by conservativecorner
The warnings were all but ignored by the federal government, which failed repeatedly to fund needed improvements, USA Today reports.
The major message in the 3rd paragraph. Did the local government head the warning?
40 years of Democratic mismanagement of a segment of humanity takes generations to overcome. Yes, people are suffering in New Orleans, but then there are the other inner cities in America where life isn't what it should be. Where's the plan??? And the band plays on.........and JJ and Al are still your pal.
Did local and state officials work with the feds to take measures to fix these problems? I don't know the history of this.
Such vagueness is useful if you want to make this seem like Bush's fault. To pinpoint warnings to a particular year, say, 1997, would appear to criticize Bill Clinton. We can't have that.
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Note that USA Today didn't put a timetable on the "ignoring" by the Federal govt or they would have been forced to acknowledge that the problem has been ignored for decades and Bill Clinton cut finding for flood prevention projects in NO. They preferred to leave it vague which suits their purpose of blaming the current administration.
There were many posts on an earlier thread about Clinton's culpability in this and some were optimistic that the MSM would eventually point out that the problem is decades old and not limited to this admin. Those posters were living in a dreamland. This article clearly shows how the MSM plan to get around blaming anyone other than Bush.
We don't all live in New Orleans it was their problem. They wanted to live there, they should of fixed it or moved. But now will all be made to pay for it.
We're all forced by law to subsidize irresponsible behavior. And that, in a nutshell, is Liberal Econ 101.
The Governor, the Attorney General, and the Mayor are immediately and obviously culpable for failing to provide leadership, carry out existing relief plans, and properly coordinate relief and security efforts, What about them?
These guys put the cluster in cluster #!*k. What about them?
I'm afraid we are losing this battle! First because the anger of the folk there and around the country NEED to blame someone and that someone is W! This morning I woke up to nothing but "IT'S BUSH'S FAULT" screams from the mediaWHORES and some folk being interviewed! Second, the mediaWHORES are flaming the fires of hatred, venom and blame, with a purple passion against W and the pubs already! Third, unfortunately, we the conservatives don't have a visual outlet to defend ourselves against the typhoon of criticism and lies the presstitutes are hammering us with. Yes, we have the Internet, but VISUALS speak volumes! Just like the MSMbastards covered for BUBBA, they'll do the same for Blanco and Landerui(sp?) This is going to get nastier as time goes by! Give it a couple of weeks and we'll see the SHE-DEVIL come out of her hole and be painted as N.O. saint by the MSMpresstitutes!
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11 - RICK RESCORLA
http://www.strategyzoneonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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"We don't all live in New Orleans it was their problem. They wanted to live there, they should of fixed it or moved. But now will all be made to pay for it."
I am personally betting that if the city of New Orleans had given the money to the Core of Engineers to improve the levee system then it would have been done...I have no doubt that even a casual glance at the books of the city of new orleans (or state of Louisianna) would show plenty of opportunities for them to find the money.
NO! We have a name for all the finger pointing and name calling though. It has something to do with a horse, a barn, and a door. We could all help by contributing to our chosen charity, as we enjoy the reasoned discussions of how to avoid a recurrence in our future.
A terrific prescient Sci Am article from 2001...the graphics are great if you dont mind the pdf format
http://www.sacoriver.net/~wolfrun/SciAmNO.pdf
That's what municipal financing is for. They could have passed it as a bond issue (if they could have gotten out their machine) and financed it through tax-exempt municipal bonds. They had enough revenue to do this. Another Democrat administration acting in a visionary, civicly, responsible way.
I would bet that those books have quite coincidentally become the unfortunate "casualty" of some of the sudden fires being started as of late.
I am sure there were a few, but the majority had their heads buried in the sand. If enough local and state officials had raised crap about this, a lot more attention would have been paid to it. Of course it would still have taken hundreds of millions of dollars to fix and a decade or so to fix and there would still have been no guarentees.
I think what it basically boils down to is that people, including Democrats, expect Democrats to be incompetent and they expect Republicans to step in and clean up the mess.
Lots of blame in this article, but no mention of how much it would cost to build the infrastructure required to protect all coastal cities in the country from category 5 hurricanes.
That's because the cost would be astronomical. Even channeling the entire productive capacity of the country to this endeavour alone would be inadequate.
There is no way to make the universe a completely safe place. There just isn't.
I studied this issue/problem in my geology class in collage back in 1986. So clearly, this is Bush's fault.
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