"DSK" wrote in message
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Because the Federal gummint takes sucha huge chunk out of
everybody;s income in taxes that they don't have enough left in local
budgets to pay hundreds of millions for levee construction?

Doug,
You are making an excellent argument for less Federal taxes. If the Fed's
were not taxing New Orleans so heavily, New Orleans would have been able to
allocate the taxes in a way that would benefit the locals best. You are not
alone in your viewpoint, there are many people who feel the Federal
Goverment taxes people too heavily and do a poor job of allocating the money
back to state and local goverments.

To be honest, I just didn't think you realized the fallacy of the
...."the Federal gummint takes sucha huge chunk out of
everybody;s income in taxes that they don't have enough left in local
budgets to pay hundreds of millions for levee construction?"



.... you guys have managed to
pick leaders who give you the worst of both worlds - they're scandal
ridden and incompetent in a crisis.

Ahem. What about those buses left unused, less than a mile from the
Superdome?



We failed you? No, oh brilliant creator of Exit to Eden, you failed.
You might not think of it this way, but: Your leaders failed to upgrade
the levees. You elected a bunch of weepers and blame-shifters who lost
their head in a crisis.

Who exactly is playing "the blame game" here?

Is it the ones who cannot stand to have any criticism of Bush, Cheney, or
that matter, Halliburton, aired publicly?


.... I'd
appreciate a little less "you failed us" and a little more "we've
learned our lesson."


So would I.

Maybe President Bush's staff, who literally spent days *after* the
hurricane arguing among themselves to decide who would be the 'bearer of
bad news' and suggest to the President that he end his vacation early,
could answer some of these questions.

DSK

Starbuck wrote:
You are making an excellent argument for less Federal taxes.

Sure. President Bush himself often says "It's *your* money."
So why aren't taxes lower? Why isn't the Federal gummint shrinking? Why
is the national debt ballooning to levels that would have the IMF and
World Bank cutting off any 3rd world country's credit line?

What do you think is going to happen when oil is more expensive than
ever, and Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out, and the administration
that's broken promises, broken Iraq, left us less capable of protecting
ourselves, less capable of defending ourselves, and with fewer
constitutional rights... and not only that, *still* hasn't outlawed
abortion or gay marriage like it's 'base' wants...

DSK

Doug,
I personally am not going to vote for Bush again.


"DSK" wrote in message
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Starbuck wrote:
You are making an excellent argument for less Federal taxes.

Sure. President Bush himself often says "It's *your* money."
So why aren't taxes lower? Why isn't the Federal gummint shrinking? Why is
the national debt ballooning to levels that would have the IMF and World
Bank cutting off any 3rd world country's credit line?

What do you think is going to happen when oil is more expensive than ever,
and Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out, and the administration that's
broken promises, broken Iraq, left us less capable of protecting
ourselves, less capable of defending ourselves, and with fewer
constitutional rights... and not only that, *still* hasn't outlawed
abortion or gay marriage like it's 'base' wants...

DSK

... Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out, and the administration
that's
broken promises, broken Iraq, left us less capable of protecting
ourselves, less capable of defending ourselves, and with fewer
constitutional rights... and not only that, *still* hasn't outlawed
abortion or gay marriage like it's 'base' wants...


Starbuck wrote:
Doug,
I personally am not going to vote for Bush again.

If you voted for him even once, then you were badly fooled. He revealed
his true colors long ago.

DSK

"DSK" wrote in message
...
... Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out, and the administration
that's
broken promises, broken Iraq, left us less capable of protecting
ourselves, less capable of defending ourselves, and with fewer
constitutional rights... and not only that, *still* hasn't outlawed
abortion or gay marriage like it's 'base' wants...


Starbuck wrote:
Doug,
I personally am not going to vote for Bush again.

If you voted for him even once, then you were badly fooled. He revealed
his true colors long ago.

A truer statemen of any and all politicians has never been made.

... Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out,

heck, it's been overdrawn since FDR..

so, whats new?

I'll state the same, I will not vote for George W. Bush for elected office
ever again.

"Starbuck" wrote in message
...
Doug,
I personally am not going to vote for Bush again.


"DSK" wrote in message
...
Starbuck wrote:
You are making an excellent argument for less Federal taxes.

Sure. President Bush himself often says "It's *your* money."
So why aren't taxes lower? Why isn't the Federal gummint shrinking? Why
is the national debt ballooning to levels that would have the IMF and
World Bank cutting off any 3rd world country's credit line?

What do you think is going to happen when oil is more expensive than
ever, and Uncle Sam's credit cards are maxed out, and the administration
that's broken promises, broken Iraq, left us less capable of protecting
ourselves, less capable of defending ourselves, and with fewer
constitutional rights... and not only that, *still* hasn't outlawed
abortion or gay marriage like it's 'base' wants...

DSK