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To: carranza2 who wrote (150632)	12/12/2005 10:23:22 AM
From: SirWalterRalegh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

C2...No mention of the incompetence of Ray "Schoolbus" Nagin and Madame Blanco just bashing Bush. No mention of the Billions of dollars sent to NO that went into somebodys pocket instead of building the specified levees. No mention of the dire warnings several days before the hurricane made landfall. No mention of the absurdity of rebuilding a city below sea level. No mention that to build category 5 levees will take 20-30 years. The amounts they got was extraordinary. Many multi-million awards. It is amazing how ungrateful those who received multi-million "awards" are. It was an extraordinary misuse of taxpayer dollars. RB

To: carranza2 who wrote (150632)	12/12/2005 11:20:13 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

Give me a break. It's up to the local folks to organize. There is always a list of Monday morning waste spending to point at. It's not FEMA or the President's job to rebuild. The locals elected the locals in charge. The locals got what they elected. What was handed out for the WTC was grossly excessive. I think we all learned that. I hope we all learned that. And I also heard the 20 billion the President sent to NY at the behest of senators crook and crooker was mostly diverted. Ever heard of fool me once. Oh the river works again, what the economic benefit? The human tragedy and loss in New Orleans was mostly if not all the result of The locals elected the locals in charge. You can talk about the COE, but the COE does not work in a vacuum of independent power. Good honest folks work with what is available locally to create the best solutions. liberal obstructive political action has castrated the independent power of the COE. Current dementia of the democrat party leadership has castrated the independent power of good men to act quickly.

To: carranza2 who wrote (150632)	12/12/2005 1:08:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793817

The Dems don't seem to have picked up just how vulnerable the Administration and the GOP is on Katrina. Cynically speaking, a "local issue," C2. The rest of the country is not going to vote against the Republicans on NO. They have pretty well blamed LA and NO for the ineptitude. FEMA? "When hasn't a Fed agency screwed up?" is the National attitude.

To: carranza2 who wrote (150632)	12/12/2005 6:50:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793817

We wonder, why are we getting screwed and New York got treated so well? New York was perceived as an exceptional case because it was hit out of the blue by an unforeseen terrorist attack - and those people were deliberately murdered. (The attack shouldn't have been so completely unforeseen, but it was.) But nobody can say that a hurricaine hitting NO was unforeseen. It was amply forseen. It just hadn't been prepared for. NO wasn't even flooded by the hurricaine, but by substandard engineering on its floodwalls. The extraordinary mess of the response only became a FEMA mess AFTER Mayor Nagin added the new word "Domed" to America's vocabulary. The local officials were all Democrats - I wouldn't be too sure how the blame is going to be passed around.