Posted on 09/16/2005 1:40:52 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005
Sam Neill blames Bush for disaster
Actor Sam Neill has blamed President Bush's economic policies for contributing to the disaster that engulfed Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit, reports The Associated Press.
In a speech Wednesday night attacking New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash ahead of the country's general elections on Saturday, Neill, a supporter of the ruling Labour Party, compared tax cuts proposed by Brash to Bush's election pledges in 2000.
'Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000 George Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism,' offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered,'' Neill told an audience in Oamaru, 200 miles east of his home and vineyard on New Zealand's South Island.
''Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?'' Neill added.
That last question was a joke, right?
Responsible press, two words rarely if ever heard in conjunction to each other.
Great actor, gorgeous, compelling. This really ticks me off. I wish he'd kept his mouth shut!
Guess I missed that one too. No wait I did see that. Dead Calm! Nicole's costumes were magnificent but I don't remember any men in that movie.
Our economy is in the tank? The US currently has an unemployment rate of %4.9 with annual growth around %3.5, hardly the tank. Nice try Sam.
Yes, but do they watch YOU?....
I hear voices in my head.
Sam, you ignorant slut. President Bush sent more money to Louisiana to fix the levees than Clinton did. It his not his fault that Louisiana squandered the money on casinos and kickbacks.
Well, just another actor who's movies I shall now not watch.
I heard that.....
Yrt another brain shrunken posuer..attempting
to re-ignight some of his has bern status by
playing a chameleon to the Leftist Party Line.
Sam Neill, the only thing I can say to this B-list actor is: "event horizon". If you've seen it, Then I need not say any more.
They quit talking when you came in.
*snicker*
yah. Now they're talking to Sam Neill.
Peach, how 'bout since Reconstruction ended? That's just a wee bit longer than 60 years...
Sam Neill, actor, who must have played the President of the United States at one point in his career, rendering him very knowledgeable on all things political. Sam Neill, who isn't even an American, but from some little piddly island in the South Pacific known as New Zealand. Hey, Sam Neill, who freakin' cares what you think?
BTW, what's the size of the New Zealand army, an understrength regiment? Go away, Sam Neill, and come back when your country grows up.
I don't have to cross him off my list, because I never saw anything he was in anyway.
The voices wouldn't waste their breath on that clueless idiot.
"Shut up and act" idiot, that is if you can find anyone to pay good money to see you and the other idiots from Hollywierd.
damn, there goes another one.
Sea, take a look at this. Who knew?
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