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To: neolib who wrote (215084)	1/26/2007 4:32:52 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There's nothing wrong with FEMA. The Bush admin. just didn't care and/or know how to use it properly. Same with Medicare.....the Bush admin. is allowing the reimbursement rates to fall every year which is resulting in an increasing number of docs to refuse new medicare patients. If you don't administer or fund a program properly, it's doomed to failure.

To: neolib who wrote (215084)	1/26/2007 6:13:31 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Under Clinton FEMA functioned. Bush is trying to kill government in order to privatize everything. The Iraq war is a for-profit venture. Why are our soldiers protecting mercenaries who earn 5 times the pay for essentially the same job? That's privatization as well. Oh yeah, private mercenaries were being hired by the privatizing freaks of the Bush administration at $900/person/day for New Orleans. Now if the Bush administration were as full of public policy wonks as the Clinton administration was (silly full of them including wonk-in-chief Bill), FEMA would have been a different story. Think about the $2 TRILLION Bush wanted to spend to privatize Social Security. Think that's a good idea? Just lift the income cap on SS and it's solvent as far as the eye can see. GM, OTOH, will drown in its obligations.