Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : sn0w0wl
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 16:39:00

-=> Angus McLeod wrote to sn0w0wl <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: Um...no comment?
 AM>   By: sn0w0wl to Angus McLeod on Sat Sep 03 2005 19:16:00

 > > Well perhaps you are correct, but as I understand it, money has been spent
 > > continuously over the last several decades to bring about gradual increase
 > > in the flood prevention/recovery mechanisms.  Until Monkey-boy took away
 > > their funding....
 >
 > Let's assume for a moment that every pres before W was putting money,
 > even if it was just a little, toward fixing the problem...so why wasn't
 > it at least half way better than it started out as?  even if W 'took
 > away their funding' what did they do with the funding they had received
 > prior?

 AM> They bought the pumps and built the flood-dams (or WTF they're called).


 > he didn't cut off the money and order them to tear down the
 > improvements so how is it his fault if they didn't spend it the way
 > they were supposed to?

 AM> He took away the money that would have not only extended the defenses,
 AM> but maintained the pumps and repaired the dams already in place.



Of course they might have failed in any case. The telling point is that 'w'
defunded a department that could have been providing aide to people with in
hours instead of days.

I doubt there was much that could have been done to save New Orleans, But much
could have been done to help New Orleanians.

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