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| paigeoliver:
Foreign aid dollars wouldn't save any lives. What is needed is pure vehicles and manpower, over the next few days to evacuate people. I could send them a billion dollars right now, and it wouldn't do a thing for saving lives, now if they starting sending over troop carrying helicopters with pilots and staff TODAY, then that would be useful. |
| Dexter:
http://www.sitepunch.com/hurricane_aid_090105_0023.php http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/31/235829/261 Canada are stranding by NOW with food, water and medicine. But they're NOT BEING ALLOWED to help. The tsunami victims had aid faster than this. America is a first world nation being offered aid NOW by other first world nations and is refusing it. WTF! |
| paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: Dexter on September 02, 2005, 07:24:31 am ---http://www.sitepunch.com/hurricane_aid_090105_0023.php http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/31/235829/261 Canada are stranding by NOW with food, water and medicine. But they're NOT BEING ALLOWED to help. The tsunami victims had aid faster than this. America is a first world nation being offered aid NOW by other first world nations and is refusing it. WTF! --- End quote --- Ok, that is just stupid, if Canada has troops ready to deploy then it is just totally stupid of us to refuse them, they are actually close enough to be usefull. But money, that won't really help all that much. |
| Dexter:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 02, 2005, 07:30:02 am ---But money, that won't really help all that much. --- End quote --- Yep, theres only one reason for the whitehouse to refuse actual aid but accept money. They can distribute the money as they see fit to their 'haves and have mores' base contributors who own companies that could provide aid relief. Haliburton anybody? It pays to be cynical. How about this report: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68732,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 This is the new weapon they've been itching to test for ages. A good reason for not sending in the army and allowing anarchy to reign?? Why do that when theres a new toy to field test. They never miss an opportunity this regieme, not one. |
| Dexter:
Worth a read if you have some time spare.... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10050.htm "A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late." Also, if you're a leftie: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=183 |
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