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Big Government - Recovery From Katrina Shows That It can't Get Out Of It's Own Way
Face The Nation on CBS TV ^ | 8/27/2006 | Bob Schieffer

Posted on 08/27/2006 6:55:59 PM PDT by A CA Guy

Allen Pizzey reported that Hezbollah agents are on the streets of Southern Lebanon handing out U.S. dollars to people whose homes were bombed out.

One year after Katrina and we can't figure out how to get money to people who lost their homes in New Orleans, we're still not sure if it can survive another hurricane but a terrorist group has figured out how to get American money to the homeless in Lebanon?

Talk about threats to national security – how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it can't get out of its own way?

That's what scares me.

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Hezbollah terrorist caused people's homes to get bombed out in Lebanon, but the token show of the hundred dollar bills impressed the hell out of Bob Shieffer. To Bob this is what real functionality in government looks like.

The terrorist did hand out little bits of money on dry land under safe conditions because only terrorist have all the weapons. The terrorist didn't have to go through hundreds of miles of floods to get to people.

The rescuers of Katrina had to deal a society of "dependents" expecting government to come save them with the speed of a Biblical Rapture despite being told to leave well before the storm hit. Rescuers were often being shot at while in deep moving flood waters without local areas to land or take off from.

How Schieffer has the arrogance to try and legitimize terrorist in wartime is beyond me. I consider his comments in backing terror to be a threat to national security, treasonous and sickening.

It's Bob who is scary here IMO.

1 posted on 08/27/2006 6:56:01 PM PDT by A CA Guy
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To: A CA Guy

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/27/opinion/schieffer/main1936907.shtml

To article...


2 posted on 08/27/2006 6:56:22 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Isn't there a large suspicion that those $100 bills they are handing out are counterfeit?


3 posted on 08/27/2006 6:57:39 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Isn't there a large suspicion that those $100 bills they are handing out are counterfeit?

No more counterfeit than CBS News "reporting."

4 posted on 08/27/2006 6:59:23 PM PDT by GoBucks2002
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Or where would they spend the money? All the local stores were caused to be bombed by the terrorist....

The money is obviously from Iran, you don't see Bob even bothering to wonder where the terrorist would get any money from...


5 posted on 08/27/2006 6:59:49 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

It's easy when you orchestrate the whole thing. The President doean't have a weather machine, regardless of what the DUnatics think.

Hezb*ll*cks, OTOH, had the whole thing figured out from the start, from the kidnapping, playing the Libs and bleeding hearts like a fiddle, to "rebuilding" Lebanon (ie token gesture of help to civs, reload and rearm).


6 posted on 08/27/2006 7:00:37 PM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: A CA Guy

You are correct. Schieffer gives me the creaps with his sissy delivery style and the incredible gaul he has to make some of his statements. I think I would Rather have his predecessor...if I had to have either.


7 posted on 08/27/2006 7:02:34 PM PDT by RouxStir (US out of the UN and UN out of the US.)
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To: A CA Guy
Is Schieffer auditioning for something, here. He seems awfully shrill.
8 posted on 08/27/2006 7:02:45 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
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To: A CA Guy
There is also the question, raised on another thread tonight, questioning whether the American $100 bills being passed out by the "social servants" at Hezbollah are counterfeit bills printed by Iran. It would be a simple matter for a reporter to pay $200 for a $100 bill from several recipients in Lebanon, and then get those bills checked for whether they originated in the US Mint, or not.

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9 posted on 08/27/2006 7:03:34 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Have a look-see. Please get involved.)
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Psst.......Bob....it's propaganda, you idiot. A "journalist" should be smart enough to differentiate.


10 posted on 08/27/2006 7:04:00 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: Killborn
You bet, and Schieffer drank like a true believer...

I think he converted to Islam without the gun IMO...
11 posted on 08/27/2006 7:04:17 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Bob Schieffer may be many things, but "intelligent" is not one of them.

How's the news story on who invented the fake documents going........hmmmmm?

12 posted on 08/27/2006 7:05:19 PM PDT by cookcounty
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To: Former Proud Canadian

That's what I thought


13 posted on 08/27/2006 7:05:42 PM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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One year after Katrina and we can't figure out how to get money to people who lost their homes in New Orleans

I believe we gave money away weeks after Katrina to people who lost their homes in New Orleans. Did the terrorists completely rebuild all of Lebanon yet? Bob - you really ought to get prepared before embarrassing yourself like this with this obvious propaganda.

14 posted on 08/27/2006 7:06:13 PM PDT by plain talk
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What a totally ignorant buffoon he is. If handing out a few thousand dollars was the end of it, Katrina ended when they handed out the debit cards. You know, the ones being used at strip clubs and to purchase Gucci bags.

Maybe the moron will take a trip to Lebanon next year and see what actually been rebuilt.

If these 3rd world hell holes are so good at disasters, why are they always looking to the US for help and funds?

What a totally shallow, unsophisticated, idiot this guy is. This is what happens when you never have to actually get something real done your whole life.


15 posted on 08/27/2006 7:06:47 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: Thebaddog

Bob acted like he thought he was really on to something here.
He came off as totally retarded IMO.


16 posted on 08/27/2006 7:07:26 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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Allen Pizzey reported that Hezbollah agents are on the streets of Southern Lebanon handing out U.S. dollars to people ...
Useful dupe handing out Hezbo propaganda; no surprise or inquisitiveness about the US bills being handed out, no verfification they are even authentic let alone where un-rumpled stacks of new-series US 100 hundred bills came from ...
17 posted on 08/27/2006 7:08:10 PM PDT by _Jim
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To: A CA Guy
Talk about threats to national security – how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it can't get out of its own way?

Well, whattya know. Our little Bobby is growing up. To be a Conservative if he keeps this up.

18 posted on 08/27/2006 7:08:52 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: RouxStir
I was wondering WTF is this old man thinking in giving aid and comfort to the terrorists?

There had to be a real break with reality for him to broadcast that propaganda.
19 posted on 08/27/2006 7:09:53 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Iran did have the old USA printing presses, so if they are handing out the old bills, they would be counterfeit more than likely.
They have so much oil money that what would be 2 million in hundreds for them anyway.
20 posted on 08/27/2006 7:11:31 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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