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Originally Posted by ratbastid
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Or better said--"Nothing to add to this thread of value."
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First: George Bush appears to agree with you. Massive flooding in major US cities, people trapped and dying, and he's <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050830/480/capm10208301856">playing guitar with a country singer on a naval base</a>. Nice.
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You don't want a president doing anything on the scene at times like these--the local manpower detailed to protect him is better used doing something useful. I thought that about Clinton when he'd go on the scene of a disaster, and I thought the same thing about Bush at the scene of the WTC in 2001--those working on the security detail would be better used elsewhere.
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Second: This was posted on boingboing.net this morning, from an email attributed to a NOLA rescue worker:
<blockquote>The poorest 20% (you can argue with the number -- 10%? 18%? no one knows) of the city was left behind to drown. This was the plan. Forget the sanctimonious bullshit about the bullheaded people who wouldn't leave. The evacuation plan was strictly laissez-faire. It depended on privately owned vehicles, and on having ready cash to fund an evacuation. The planners knew full well that the poor, who in new orleans are overwhelmingly black, wouldn't be able to get out. The resources -- meaning, the political will -- weren't there to get them out.
White per capita income in Orleans parish, 2000 census: $31,971. Black per capita: $11,332. Median *household* income in B.W. Cooper (Calliope) Housing Projects, 2000: $13,263. </blockquote>
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And since it was the BLACK mayor that delayed in calling for a mandatory evacuation--Saturday's call was for voluntary, it wasn't until Sunday that it became mandatory--the note you chose to share with us must put him and his administration in the conspiracy.
0 for 2 on this one.