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To: Bucky Katt who wrote (57126)	8/31/2005 1:24:47 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

You can't be an intelligent person in 2005 and be against the environment - just doesn't work - sorry. Repubs are in power in all branches - so they need to do their jobs now. I agree with Rande and others - if it was Chicago on fire - or Wash DC or NYC flooded - we would be seeing more action - and less of the blame the victim stuff I'm seeing now - people should have got out, etc. As one person said on the radio today - exactly HOW do you want them to evacuate now - to where? There are people with heart problems, on ventilators, IVs at home - people without resources - that are not being helped at this time. Time to put the BS behind us - I agree - and have the federal govt. step in to help these people out - it's their job to do so - and NOW!

To: Bucky Katt who wrote (57126)	8/31/2005 1:27:03 PM
From: tsigprofit	Respond to of 57584

Not dull - you just don't want to listen to the facts - as posted in the article below - Repubs are in power - and they are the ones that have diverted money and resources from doing more over the last few years: Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside. Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars. (Much of the research here is from Nexis, which is why some articles aren't linked.)