On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:52:45 -0400, DSK wrote:



I've heard a great deal of complaint in recent days that the federal
government may not ha! ve allocated enough money to speed up the
upgrades to those levees. This does, however, raise the question of why
city and state residents were waiting around for the federal
government to send enough money to upgrade this, instead of paying for
it themselves.

Because it's under Federal jurisdiction and the Corps of Engineers won't
let them? 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?




.... 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

Doug, maybe you should read this before you start throwing stones at the Corps
of Engineers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9342186/

Of course, it won't support your bs propaganda, but it *is* interesting.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."