Budget has little new for storm protection

[funkybutt]

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent a $2.77 trillion federal budget to Congress Monday with a significant boost in defense spending and new tax breaks to encourage Americans to save for their health care, but with little new money for flood or storm protection along the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast.

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"The White House budget reflects an administration that has still not learned from its dysfunctional response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the levee breaks that followed," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who criticized a 55 percent cut in firefighter training grants.

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., called a 34 percent cut on the construction budget for the Army Corps of Engineers, which designs and builds storm protection projects, "extremely disappointing."

"These sorts of cuts in the past are what led to cutting corners," Vitter said. "And that led to catastrophic flooding in New Orleans."

[Mithras61]

1. Why are the La. critters surprised?

From what I can tell, they should have seen this coming. Besides, the entire budget from this maladministration is so screwed that we might just as well throw the hole thing in the shitcan and start over with some realistic projections of need and funding, starting with a restoration of the taxes on the top wage brackets to "fair share" levels. I don't think the wealthy should pay for it all, but they can certainly afford to give more than the rest of us. The corporations could certainly stand to give some as well (they paid a huge part of the budget 40 years ago, and pay almost none of it today).

[lapfog_1]

2. What part of "doublespeak" do these people not understand..

Bush has ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS said one thing and done another...

From the very start... "I'm a uniter, not a divider" slogan to the promise of billions to rebuild NOLA, Bush doublespeaks.

No child left behind?

Clear Skies?

Patriot Act?

(I could go on)

Look folks, this is all part of the plan. Global climate change is here... and the bushies, far from sticking their heads in the saudi sand, know it and embrace it. Their idea is nothing less than to depopulate the coastal areas, starting with NOLA. They have no intention to rebuild levees... because they already know that it is almost futile... there isn't any way to hold back the water in a warmer, polar ice shrinking earth. Better to simply relocate the poor (and those homosexuals) to other parts of the country and then kick them to the curb... or let them get jobs at the local Wal-marts.

[KamaAina]

3. "Extremely disappointing" -- quite an understatement

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., called a 34 percent cut on the construction budget for the Army Corps of Engineers, which designs and builds storm protection projects, "extremely disappointing."

Guess that Kool-Aid that looked so refreshing in the jug leaves an aftertaste that is "extremely disapoointing", huh?

What an outrage. How are they supposed to get back to Square One by June, let alone to Cat 5 levels?! :grr: Maybe we could spin it as "the only military program Bush** ever cut"? (We know perfectly well that COE money has been diverted to Iraq for years now...)

[Angry Girl]

4. It's called a PURGE: Let's get rid of ALL the poor blacks in New Orleans!

Already 2/3 of blacks have yet to return to NO and it's pretty apparent that most will never make it. The Bushies just want to make New Orleans the Buenos Aires of Amerika!

NB: For those who don't already know, Buenos Aires, Argentina, used to be about one-third black. It is now 99% white, due to ethnic cleansing under the guises of disease and war.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Yep. Bush has absolutely no interest in helping the black folks

return to New Orleans. That's why he played guitar while the levees failed. He just hit another Trifecta.