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The articles cited explain a lot...
On a separate but related subject:
I find it very heartening to see the ways in which ordinary Americans are chipping in either with money or other means of support to try and help the people striken by Hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath.
While this is all good, I'm wondering why the Federal Government (not to mention the insurance companies) are not stepping in and funding the entire recovery. When Bush wanted to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tens of billions of dollars were made available in no time.
I thought the government already had billions of dollars earmarked for disaster relief. Therefore, I'm not really certain why individual taxpayers and companies are being asked to donate so much money to the effort.
I have to believe that people in the U.S. would feel better that their collective tax money was being used to help fellow citizens in their time of suffering, rather than to finance preventable foreign policy disasters which waste billions of taxpayer dollars and cost precious lives.
This is not a call to stop donating. I'm simply curious why the government cannot, or rather seems unable/refuses to do more.
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