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To: NightOwl who wrote (10868)	9/1/2005 7:21:41 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

Owl- Sunday morning I woke up and heard that Katrina was a Category 5 with 155MPH winds heading straight for New Orleans. Nobody whispered into the presidents ear that it might be dangerous. I think they have filled the agencies completely with ideologicaly pure hacks so no one is capable of acting for the people's benefit. I believe we are in Herbert Hoover mode until the next election. Harvey BTW It's not only the poor. The middle class got kicked out of their hotels. Probably because the hotel lawyers told management to reduce their liability exposure. Maybe we'll finally pull our troops out of Europe and Korea. Over my cold dead body as "Moses" said about his guns.

To: NightOwl who wrote (10868)	9/2/2005 2:54:44 AM
From: David C. Burns	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

Levee Money Diverted to Iraq How plainly does this need to be said? Beginning in 1995, the Army Corps of Engineers began a project to shore up the New Orleans levees. But starting in 2003, the money for that project began being diverted to pay for the war in Iraq. As Will Bunch writes: Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward (shoring up levees) 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. Finally we begin to see the human costs associated with trying to fight a war while cutting taxes for the wealthiest.

To: NightOwl who wrote (10868)	9/2/2005 6:59:20 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

Looks like Frist and a handful of Senators are enough to pass the legislation. The House must be more formal but I doubt anybody is staying around. I'm beginning to feel sorry for Bush. Times knocks him for jauntiness going to the Rose Garden speech. He ought to be jaunty coming back to work from a months vacation. Brown, however, is a disaster. Blame the poor for being poor. Next time they'll have to start the hijacking and busjacking before the storm. Hastert isn't much help either, Hastert to New Orleans: Drop Dead You are right about my being dumb to worry about ocean warming at a time like this. Screw the next generation. We've already put them into debt up to their eyeballs. Maybe they'll say screw you back and go live on communes so no one will be working to pay our Medicaid and OASI. Harvey