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Originally Posted by theking
Could more have been done in less time...maybe...
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Maybe? There were people in "rescue shelters" for several days without food, water or adequate sanitation. Thousands more were (and continue to be) stranded and in even more dire straits due to the feeble rescue efforts undertaken in an untimely manner by the government.
Experts had been predicting such a disaster in this area for a long time. However, the Bush Administration cut funding for projects which would have shored up the levees over the past several years, while giving unprecedented huge tax cuts to the rich, running up record budgets, and increasing the national deficit (how ironic that he got elected in part by accusing the Demos of being tax and spenders - he is the biggest borrower and spender in history who has given the most relief to the least needy).
Hopefully you will never have to endure such a disaster with such an ineffective initial response.
At least your President was getting plenty of rest on his nearly five week vacation (Dubya holds the all-time Presidential vacation record), and he still had time to do some partisan political fundraising thousands of miles away while people in the South were suffering (and our military people continue to die in Iraq).
How good of Bush to stop by for some photo ops several days after the fact.
It must be nice to always view things with rose-colored glasses (blinders).
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