Posted on: 02-09-05 11:10:30
These people dont help their own skin and blood for the most part(Even if they do help it is for a little while)......can you imagine them taking strangers into their home providing them food and shelter.
And seems like thunk is a web word or chat lingo.
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Orginally posted by macman
Heard on radio and other forums, the budget to upgrade/maintain the levee was cut by about 40%. Reason? Yep, Iraq war and home land security. I wonder if it could have hold up, but might have bought some crucial time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/weather_katrina_funding_dc
Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush administration funding cuts forced federal engineers to delay improvements on the levees, floodgates and pumping stations that failed to protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, agency documents showed on Thursday.
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Since 2001, the Army Corps has requested $496 million for that project but the Bush administration only budgeted $166 million, according to figures provided by the office of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record).
Congress ultimately approved $250 million for the project during that time period.
Another project designed to shore up defenses along Lake Pontchartrain was similarly underfunded, as the administration budgeted $22 million of the $99 million requested by the Corps between 2001 and 2005. Congress boosted spending on that project to $42.5 million, according to Landrieu's office.
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Orginally posted by BlueLobster
Search "who'd have thunk it?" on google...
Yeah, the whole thing is a complete mess. And now Bush is sort of admitting that the "results are not acceptable". But hey, I'm sure he's got some spin on that too...
Banta Singh finished his English exam and came out of the hall. His friends asked him how did he do his exam, to which he replied "Exam was okay, but for the past tense of THINK, I really thought, thought, thought hard... and at last wrote - THUNK "
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Orginally posted by mercury6
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Orginally posted by macman
Heard on radio and other forums, the budget to upgrade/maintain the levee was cut by about 40%. Reason? Yep, Iraq war and home land security. I wonder if it could have hold up, but might have bought some crucial time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/weather_katrina_funding_dc
Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush administration funding cuts forced federal engineers to delay improvements on the levees, floodgates and pumping stations that failed to protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, agency documents showed on Thursday.
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Since 2001, the Army Corps has requested $496 million for that project but the Bush administration only budgeted $166 million, according to figures provided by the office of Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record).
Congress ultimately approved $250 million for the project during that time period.
Another project designed to shore up defenses along Lake Pontchartrain was similarly underfunded, as the administration budgeted $22 million of the $99 million requested by the Corps between 2001 and 2005. Congress boosted spending on that project to $42.5 million, according to Landrieu's office.
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This does not surprise me at all.
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Orginally posted by BlueLobster
Search \"who'd have thunk it?\" on google...
Yeah, the whole thing is a complete mess. And now Bush is sort of admitting that the \"results are not acceptable\". But hey, I'm sure he's got some spin on that too...
This was the perfect chance to get his approval rating up. But, oh boy, he blew it big time. If he can get away with this, uska bhagvan bhi aake unko (US of A) nahin bacha sakta.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9163091/
Katrina exposes New Orleans’ deep poverty
WASHINGTON - Americans, watching from afar, have been stunned. Some have been sickened by the looting, random and indiscriminate. Basics and luxuries — anything not nailed down — are hauled off.
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But why are so many of those so-called “opportunists” — on TV, at least — black?
The answer? Sixty-seven percent of New Orleans' residents are black. And huge numbers of them are poor. Nearly 30 percent of people in New Orleans live below the poverty line, and only a handful of large American cities have lower household incomes than the Big Easy.
For young, distressed Katrina victims, it’s even worse: Only Mississippi next door has a higher child poverty rate than Louisiana. According to estimates, half of all children in Louisiana live in poverty.
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It was already bad before Katrina — most of the poor didn’t have insurance. Some needed to wait for their government checks, due the first of the month, three days after Katrina hit. Some 134,000 people couldn’t leave because they couldn't afford transportation.
This natural disaster illustrates what experts have known all along — disasters do not treat everyone alike. Surviving is easier for whites who have than for blacks who don’t. And when push comes to shove, it’s every man, woman and child for himself.
Katrina is, in its aftermath, exposing a part of the Big Easy overlooked in all that hype about Mardi Gras, jasmine and flaming desserts — the catastrophe has shed light on misery and provided an unfortunate commentary on race and class.
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Orginally posted by macman
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Orginally posted by BlueLobster
Search \"who'd have thunk it?\" on google...
Yeah, the whole thing is a complete mess. And now Bush is sort of admitting that the \"results are not acceptable\". But hey, I'm sure he's got some spin on that too...
This was the perfect chance to get his approval rating up. But, oh boy, he blew it big time. If he can get away with this, uska bhagvan bhi aake unko (US of A) nahin bacha sakta.
I would not let that retard run my cattle farm and to think jack is running entire country.
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On a side note if anybody finds my comments or posts offensive or irritating please ignore it and if that still bothers you; please write to me and I will demonstrate.
