Reply #21: I heard that too, and about fell out of bed. [View All]

I could not believe my ears, but there must be "word going out" from "SOMEWHERE" to broadcast far and wide and repeatedly that corporate Amerika is donating beaucoup bucks for relief. Makes me sick!

Didn't W say it in his sorry-assed excuse for a "speech to the nation" yesterday, too? I thought I heard that, though it's very hard for me to listen to and look at him, ever. I do, but it takes a real effort on my part. (I figure if none of us will *watch* him, then no one is keeping an eye on him! And we won't know what he says or does except as the media TELL us about it. Besides, I do like seeing him cracking up.)

With all the looting happening in NOLA, and bad as that is, especially with the gun-toting thugs *shooting* at rescuers and relief workers, STILL I can't imagine anything as bad as the Corporate LOOTING that has been going on in this country ever since GWB took office -- and frankly EVERY time Repugs have been in power. You would think, as some have already said in several threads I've been reading, that the LEAST these bandits could do would be to donate in a major way toward this relief effort after such a catastrophic natural disaster as Katrina has been -- and continues to be.

But no actual figures I've heard as yet amount to a drop in the bucket compared to what SHOULD be offered from those who HAVE the wealth to share. It's shameful, disgraceful, disgusting.

I really appreciated the summing up of the "Republicanism" in the original post here. Very nicely done -- and right on the mark. Thanks for the succinct bullet list. If you don't mind, I would like to put it in a paragraph to forward to my email friends. May I do that? With proper credit given, of course!

~VV

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