Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Daemon
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 17:22:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Angus McLeod to Finnigann on Mon Sep 05 2005 10:25 am

 >  >  AM> He took away the money that would have not only extended the defense
 >  >  AM> but maintained the pumps and repaired the dams already in place.
 >  > 
 >  > Of course they might have failed in any case.
 > 
 > I suppose so, but that attitude is like saying t"They might die anyway, so 
 > let's not take them to hospital".

  That's exactly my point.  As far as I'm concerned, that's precisely what the
hind-sight spin is.

  *shakes head*  Continuing to cite facts to Frank only seems to rile the guy
up, so I won't bother cataloguing the ongoing work that was done nor
the drying-up of funding anymore, but there's that spin going on plus the fact
that, because of the under-funding, we're now looking at MASSIVE multi-billion
dollar funding to correct the inequities that were taken a chance on, a
horrible body count, and hundreds of thousands of ruined lives.

  Seems to me a REAL leader would be taking responsibility, not pretending
everything had been done that could be done.

 >  > The telling point is that 'w' defunded a department that could have 
 >  > been providing aide to people with in hours instead of days.
 > 
 > And thought so little of anything but his war, that he stripped funding 
 > from the programmes that *might* have ameliorated the situation, when a
 > disaster of this sort was considered the to be highly probable.

  It surely would have given the people there more of a chance to get out, and
just might have made it possible to turn what looks to be VERY long-term total
reconstruction into something we were prepared to handle without pretty much
scratching an entire city off the map.  

  Oh, BTW...  Yet another one of the local National Guard units was called to
action here in WNY.  Not to help in any way with the disaster, though; to go to
Iraq.

  The priorities haven't changed.


       [daemon]                 
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