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Let's say we did nothing, and said "every man for himself."

None of us are saying that. Most of us agree in principle with you.

HOWEVER........

Why did the President mention Mayor Nagin as part of his recovery team?

Why didn't President Bush (considering we are spending billions on Iraq), state that many social welfare programs, foreign aid, pork projects etc., will need to be STOPPED while we pay for this recovery?

Why did the President blame NO on "racial discrimination" when that is NOT true?

Why didn't the President end all this media hysteria claiming Bush is responsible by telling the nation the LOCALS are responsible? Part II---why did he say he was to blame again???????????

Miss Marple, only nations that have a centralized statist government (like North Korea and the old Soviet Union), have the Federal Government responsible for planning,preparation and management of a current event like a hurricane. Either admit (President Bush) we are communist (statist, centralized or whatever you want to call it), or STOP this Federal government accepting blame for local responsibilities. Why is States' Rights thrown in the dumpster by our leaders on national TV?

Yes, agreed it is a huge disaster, and yes, agreed the Feds should help in the clean-up, but the socialism meter is pegged into the red zone and that is tragic for our nation. All I want is some practical response from our government that is formatted around the beliefs this nation was founded on, such as States' Rights (and responsibilities), limited government and FISCAL SANITY!

Our nation was not served well with this speech.

Why did the President blame NO on "racial discrimination" when that is NOT true?

BS.. It is true. The Great Society has exacerbated and institutionalized the poverty of many in the black community.

Yet, it was slavery and discrimination that lead the government to enact these ultimately destructive programs in order to "rectify" the disadvantages that stemmed from the discrimination.

IMHO, it was politically astute for the president to focus on racial discrimination as it gives the Republicans a powerful weapon to continue to pull black voters from the Democrats.

Nagin has been somewhat frozen out by the Democrats in Baton Rouge. He's a former Pubbie, remember, and supported Jindal in the 2003 Gubernatorial against Governor Deer In Headlights.

One person who will NOT be in control of the money is Governor Deer In Headlights. She won't get near it. Nagin and his people will. They're black. The Baton Rouge Donks are white. They get nuttin'. Landreiu and her crowd can go hang. She's the wrong skin color.

Bush will make sure that BLACK PEOPLE GET MONEY.

Bush will make sure that BLACK PEOPLE and BLACK POLITICIANS benefit when CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS (not liberal Democrats, like, ahem, HILLARY...) hand out money and shiny new low interest loans for Urban Homesteads. He will make sure that they KNOW, and that the black media knows, that George Bush is not the mass murderer of young black men and women that Kanye West says he is.

Bush will make damned sure that Blacks associate the new prosperity with Republican action. This is a mini version of the New Deal.

Six months from now, black Americans will not vote for Bush, but they will think better of him. They will also think better of Republicans.

Black voters are rational actors. If you act in what they perceive to be their rational self interest, you will be rewarded with their vote. In this case, Bush is offering massive Federal Assistance to rebuild their shattered lives.

This is not Ayn Rand World. John Galt does not speak over the loudspeaker in Manhattan. Bush is doing what the American people want him to do, and he and Republicans will be rewarded for it.

Trust me. Donkeys are not happy tonight. Karl Rove saw to that.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

Your post is dead on, but there is a portion of the population mired in poverty, maybe uneducable, certainly dumb and dumber, some on drugs, and we carry them on our backs 365 days of the year, year after year, and we deal with the consequences of hopeless poverty and generational stupidity, and the hundreds of thousands who commit crimes and end up in prison. This is a chance to try and turn some of that around. Certainly it won't solve everything, but we have to try. It's beyond sad to simply write them off as worthless. (And it's better than posting a sheriff on a bridge to keep them out of the suburbs.)