Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid (IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME)

"I'm sure Halliburton will get all of the reconstruction contracts as well."

Actually, if we (unwisely) went down that road, that probably would and definitely should happen. Halliburton is the only operation out there that can handle these types of things....

juck fackson

"If you live in low lying areas ... – GET OUT"

They should change that to "If you live near low-lifes.. - GET OUT"

" Jackson questioned why Bush has not named blacks to top positions in the federal response to the disaster, particularly when the majority of victims remaining stranded in New Orleans are black: "How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

The Mayor of New Orleans said, "get off your asses" not, "send in the asses." In this case a first class Assclown, asshat, and assbag!

Sorry. I'm venting. I'm furious. This "man" is not a leader and is everything wrong with New Orleans. In fact, the death of his fellow citizens are more his blame, I should say, more of the ilk like him, are to blame for this massive tragedy and loss of life. His encouragement of government dependence has contributed to creating a class of people who cannot do anything for themselves, imprisoning them within the confines of America's most seedy slums.

Never once do you hear this horse's ass encourage people in time of need, solidify their faith in God, or even give sincere words of hope. This man is a national embarrassment, regardless of the color of your skin.

Unfortunately, the black communities in our country unrelentingly cling to this man like a beaten child does to their abusive father, like mindless lemmings, he continues to lead them into the abyss of despair and poverty while he fills his own pockets with money and feeds his ego with empty praise.

I'm sorry. I don't mean to spew, I've had a hard day and there are many of my colleagues in Pascagaoula, MS that are hurting and suffering; still, many are unaccounted for.

No Mr. Jackson, it doesn't take a black person to help a black person, it just takes someone to put aside their bigotry to help a fellow human in need; unfortunately, you sir, have not.

Screw you, Jesse! It didn't take you long, you schill.

Hey Jesse, STFU you racist two-bit hustler POS! Nobody is buying your extortion blackmail scams anymore.

Hey Jesse, check this out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475637/posts

The civil rights leader said the flooding that caused thousands to be trapped inside the city was caused by a lack of federal funding for its levee system and hurricane planning. The resulting tragedy, he said, has largely hit New Orleans' black residents, because they were too poor to evacuate before the storm hit. "There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country, he said.

Hmm...Je$$e Jacka$$ Jr...what is your reply to this?...

"It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew"

So...was X-42 Krintong a Racist too, and by proxy Hillary (Gee, might as well accuse G_d of Racism too!)...or are you just looking to up your "Poverty Pimp Cred"...

Where was the Congressional Black "Pimps and Ho's Roadshow"...Caucus...when the people of MS, AL, and LA needed them? They sure are quick to BUS THEM from Precint to Precint when it's time to commit VOTER FRAUD....but the buses just sat now didn't they...

Just a little more, Poverty Pimps...the tipping point has passed, and we are starting freefall descent...things are going to become "interesting" for these scumbags very soon...

Must be nice to have no responsibilities (except maybe to your illegitimate offspring)-- just sit back and criticize... I could do that...

The civil rights leader said the flooding that caused thousands to be trapped inside the city was caused by a lack of federal funding for its levee system and hurricane planning

Did he happen to mention that it was the first black president, William J. Clinton, who REJECTED that funding?

"U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, head of the military task force overseeing operations in the three states, is black."

Yeah, but see, he's not the right kind of black.

February 17, 1995

An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid.

Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.

Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996.

Corps officials freely conceded the cuts, which represent only a small portion of savings the corps ultimately must make, may be penny-wise and pound-foolish. But they said they were forced to eliminate some services the corps has historically provided to taxpayers to meet the administration's budget-cutting goals.

June 23, 1995

A hurricane project, approved and financed since 1965, to protect more than 140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal is in jeopardy.

The Clinton administration is holding back a Corps of Engineers report recommending that the $120 million project proceed. Unless that report is forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget, Congress cannot authorize money for the project, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's office said Thursday.

On June 9, John Zirschky, the acting assistant secretary of the Army and the official who refused to forward the report, sent a memo to the corps, saying the recommendation for the project "is not consistent with the policies and budget priorities reflected in the President's Fiscal Year 1996 budget. Accordingly, I will not forward the report to the Office of Management and Budget for clearance."

July 26, 1996

The House voted Thursday for a $19.4 billion energy and water bill that provides $246 million for Army Corps of Engineers projects in Louisiana.

The bill, approved 391-23, is the last of the 13 annual spending measures for 1997 approved by the House.

One area in which the House approved more financing than the president requested was for flood control and maintenance of harbors and shipping routes by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Flood control projects along the Mississippi River and its tributaries were allotted $303 million, or $10 million more than the president wanted.

June 19, 1996

The Army Corps of Engineers, which builds most flood protection levees on a federal-local cost-sharing basis, uses a cost-benefit ratio to justify a project. If the cost of building a levee is considered less than the cost of restoring a flood-ravaged area, the project is more likely to be approved.

For years, the Jean Lafitte-Lower Lafitte-Barataria-Crown Point areas couldn't convince the corps they were worthy of levee protection. But the use of Section 205 and congressional pressure has given the corps a new perspective, Spohrer said.

But even so, when the Clinton administration began to curtail spending on flood control and other projects a year ago, the corps stopped spending on Section 205 projects even after deciding to do a $70,000 preliminary Jean Lafitte study, Spohrer said.

July 22, 1999

In passing a $20.2 billion spending bill this week for water and energy projects, the House Appropriations Committee approved some significant increases in financing for several New Orleans area flood control and navigational projects.

The spending bill is expected on the House floor within the next two weeks.

For the New Orleans District of the Army Corps of Engineers, the panel allocated $106 million for construction projects, about $16 million more than proposed by President Clinton.

The bill would provide $47 million for "southeast Louisiana flood control projects," $16 million for "Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection," $15.9 million for the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans and $2 million for "West Bank hurricane protection -- from New Orleans to Venice."

Most of the projects received significant increases over what the Clinton administration had proposed. The exception: general flood control projects for southeast Louisiana, which remained at the $47 million suggested by Clinton. Local officials had hoped for double that amount.

February 8, 2000

For the metropolitan New Orleans area, Clinton's budget was seen as a mixed bag by local lawmakers and government officials. For instance, while Clinton called for $1.5 billion to be spent at Avondale Industries to continue building LPD-17 landing craft, his budget calls for significantly less than what Congress appropriated last year for Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection and for West Bank flood control projects.

September 29, 2000

The House approved Thursday a $23.6 billion measure for water and energy programs, with sizable increases for several New Orleans area flood-control projects. The Senate will vote Monday, but it may be a while before the bill is enacted.

President Clinton is promising to veto the annual appropriation for the Energy Department and Army Corps of Engineers, not because it is $890 million larger than he proposed, but because it does not include a plan to alter the levels of the Missouri River to protect endangered fish and birds.

Source: EU Rota

So, according to Jackson, Bush, doing everything he can with incompetent local government is bad, while looters, shooting, killing stealing and raping are just doing what they are supposed to.

Why does the MSM continue to quote this moron?

New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, a Democrat City Council, and a Democrat Chief of Police. Louisiana has a Democrat Governor, a Democrat Lt. Governor, a Democrat Attorney General; 24 of 39 Louisiana State Senators are Democrat, 67 of 105 Louisiana State House Representatives are Democrat, there's a Democrat Representative in the House from New Orleans, and one of two Senators in the Senate is a Democrat. Yet, somehow it's all Bush's fault.

Jesse is a disgusting excuse for a human being.

"How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

Jackson must have missed the fact that the mayor of NO is black.

I can't believe that people are dying and this slug is worried about affirmative action.

It is so hard not to drop mf-bombs all over this posting. People are dying, being raped, murdered, and all terrors in-between in a city so out of control that the worst over the top mayhem movie looks like Wuthering Heights in comparison, and this stupid so and so can only worry that W did not use a quota system in selecting relief officials? Are you kidding me?

I just want to know how Scott Ott can throw his voice like that and rhyme at the same time because there is no other explanation for that statement. No one could seriously think that. No one.

Very good observations. Meanwhile, very few complaints have I heard out of Mississipi, which, as I understand it, in fact took the brunt of Katrina. Of what party affiliation is the governor of Miss????? Hmmmm???? (I don't know about the local mayors and other govt bodies there, or in Alabama, either....help?????)

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