Show w The Money
Bush took credit for everything good in the response to 9/11, blamed Clinton that it happened. Can't have it both ways. Now with Katrina, he can't blame anyone for it happening, and I wonder if he'll take credit for his policies which gutted FEMA and other disaster response or preparation initiatives? The feeble response by the federal government of course cannot be laid at his feet, since he was on vacation. Where the Hell was Cheney then? Too busy counting his Halliburton profits from Iraq? For those of you who remember Magoo, think of Cheney singing "Ringle Jingle (Coins When They Jingle)."
With every aspect of governance reduced to secrecy and "cash and carry" in our current administration, I wonder how many organizations private and public sectors were hesitant to help out more in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Our current administration has defaulted on so many of it's financial promises to international disaster relief efforts, that they must assume no money will be forthcoming for domestic disasters. Even after w gets his head out of vacationland, will promises of assistance be viewed as a safe credit risk? If faced with providing limited assistance or bankrupting their organization, what decision is likely to be made in a culture where money is viewed as the most significant social value, able to overcome compassion, honesty, and promises in a single bound?
Well I'm off to the backwoods for the long weekend. I'm gratified to see the media is already challenging the feds, who are trying to paint a (fictional) rosy picture fo the devastation. The deception is so deeply embedded in the leadership culture they can't break away from it even when the truth is obvious to all. Kind of like Halliburton being unable to stem their fraudulent practices even when they knew they were under scrutiny for the no-bid (conflict of interest) contracts in the questionable war.
With every aspect of governance reduced to secrecy and "cash and carry" in our current administration, I wonder how many organizations private and public sectors were hesitant to help out more in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Our current administration has defaulted on so many of it's financial promises to international disaster relief efforts, that they must assume no money will be forthcoming for domestic disasters. Even after w gets his head out of vacationland, will promises of assistance be viewed as a safe credit risk? If faced with providing limited assistance or bankrupting their organization, what decision is likely to be made in a culture where money is viewed as the most significant social value, able to overcome compassion, honesty, and promises in a single bound?
Well I'm off to the backwoods for the long weekend. I'm gratified to see the media is already challenging the feds, who are trying to paint a (fictional) rosy picture fo the devastation. The deception is so deeply embedded in the leadership culture they can't break away from it even when the truth is obvious to all. Kind of like Halliburton being unable to stem their fraudulent practices even when they knew they were under scrutiny for the no-bid (conflict of interest) contracts in the questionable war.
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Enjoy the backwoods. I notice gwb has been busy hugging black women and telling everyone that the federal government wasn't happy with the emergency operation (as though it was all just the fault of the local administration).
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