No faith in Bush
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Published: September 13, 2005
In America, the devolution into fascism continues as the appalling paralysis of the Bush administration in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina demonstrates. Fascism feeds on crisis, and people are simply a pool of bodies; cull the most useful and discard the rest. Fascist regimes need war, violence, militarism, and endless crisis.
Are we blind, stupid, or just too busy to think about the implications of the crisis in New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama? Is this a once in a lifetime fluke? Can there really be global warming?
Ask Bush why he cut $71 million from funding needed to shore up and maintain levees on Lake Pontchartrain.
Ask Cheney why he finished his vacation and checked out a $2.9 million dollar Chesapeake waterfront home before heading south to meet with Halliburton, who already has a reconstruction contract to repair damage wreaked by Katrina.
Ask Condoleeza "Imelda" Rice she was in New York buying THOUSANDS of DOLLARS of new shoes while rescuers were finding elderly people in attics, up to their necks in filthy, toxic water. After all, she's only the Secretary of State.
If Vermonters think we are so special that Bush and his hacks would come running to our rescue, think again; all those National Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan, all that machinery, all that equipment, unavailable for Americans, here, in America.
And now, Bush blames the mayor of New Orleans. The mayor of New Orleans?? Was he in charge of FEMA? Could he bypass the governor and request troops? Did he have control of federal funds for repairs and maintenance of the levees? If the mayor of New Orleans was a white man with lots of money and little Christian towheads in Sunday school every week, it would have been a very different scenario.
As Michael Moore asked: "Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for 5 days?"
Yes, Michael. With Bush in the White House, I can.
Merry Gangemi
Woodbury
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