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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
George Bush is absolutely NOT responsible for the bridge collapse, I dont ever remember blaming him for that either. Nor is he responsible for lack of rain or any other natural disaster or state negligence. A country as large and with as much infrastructure as the US is bound to have an accident or two. There are just too many things to keep an eye on and inspect. I may be wrong on the matter, but accidents do happen. The president is in no way responsible for those accidents.
I was actually just referring to priorities being upside down. 
Example:
~George Bush~
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." —Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
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New Orleans, is a different Story,( the hurricane could not have been prevented, but everything else could have ) it was no accident and concerns have been expressed years earlier. Are you aware that the engineers that had been put in charge of upgrading and reinforcing the levy's specifically warned the administration ( or the FEMA director )that the levy's were sinking and need immediate funding for repair in order to avoid a disaster? Instead of giving funding Bush, DECREASED funding by 20% as cuts had to be made in the federal budget. The 20% which was cut from the levy's went to support the cost of the Iraq war. ( this is just another example of upside down priorities )
This was a special on CNN, I will try to find an article online on the matter. |
First off anyone who quotes the Clinton News Network needs a rudimentary education.
Second, the Katrina debacle was highlighted because New Orleans had one of the poorest sections, The Ninth Ward, a democratic voting block, placed under the world spotlight. The people there had little or nothing to begin with, most relied on weekly government(in reality a portion of my money called taxes)checks to cruise by on from week to week. So when any disaster strikes it was chaos, an earthquake could have had the same effect, it just happened to be a Hurricane.
Third: DON'T BUILD IN A FLOOD PLAIN, here it is actually worse because portions of the city lie beneath sea level.
It is not a particular interesting city to begin with....Jazz you say, Ehh, kind of like soccer comes under the who cares department.
As for blame first the Mayor, Mr chocolate himself, a typical democrat do nothing, ran and hid when disaster struck, huh... then these morons reelected him so you see what we're dealing with.
Next that shining example of leadership, the Governor, a democrat, went and hid when the chips were down, She had the National Guard at her disposal and fudged its deployment.
It was these two primary leaders responsibility to ask the President and FEMA for aid. Coordinate and tell the Feds what they needed. They stood there with their mouths wide open, catchin flies and had that deer in the headlights look all Liberals get when they actually have to do something. Duh is appropriate.
In addition, the Fed has given millions of dollars, more than enough for maintenance and upgrade within reasonable expectations, for the levee system, but being run by Democrats, they squandered all those funds on do nothing
Bureaucracies and landed in the mess they brought upon themselves, but that's what happens when you gamble with specified funds.
As for Mr. Bush, he is by no means an ideal President.
He signed a huge education bill with that drunken fat ass Kennedy, that in itself questions the Presidents intelligence level.
What thanks did he get, more trouble than he could have imagined bordering on treason from the New York Times to the Democrat party dragging its feet every step of the way and giving Terrorists combatant status, which is absurd.
The President as soon as he got into office needed to remove
all democrats from political offices under his
Prerogative legal ability.
Deal with rampant Democrat voter fraud
Close the borders to all illegal aliens(criminal aliens)
Build an effective screen and defense against border Infiltration.
Create an effective border Patrol and not tie the hands or arrest the enforcers.
Deal with the terrorist threat from a military standpoint, not pussy footing around with LOAC and police actions.
Put through an energy bill that didn't let Exxon and Mobil merge, as well as allow new refineries to be built and new drilling.
As for cutting money to Louisiana well you remember Huey Long, enuff said, nothing has changed. Why throw good money after bad.
And how do you know the 20% went to Iraq, it could have just as easily made it into The No Child left behind, so source please, accounting ledger? Don't bother with CNN, they make up stories just like the New York Times does.
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