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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:12 PM
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House Speaker: Rebuilding N.O. doesn't make sense
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 03:47 PM by slutticus
Haven't seen this on DU yet....

I'm so fucking pissed right now I can't take it...

Cutting disaster preparedness funding ...and now this?!?! Do they WANT New Orleans gone????

Thursday, 2:55 p.m.

By Bill Walsh
Washington bureau

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Dennis Hastert dropped a bombshell on flood-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday by suggesting that it isn’t sensible to rebuild the city.

"It doesn't make sense to me," Hastert told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago in editions published today. "And it's a question that certainly we should ask."

<snip>

“That’s like saying we should shut down Los Angeles because it’s built in an earthquake zone,” former Sen. John Breaux, D-La., said. “Or like saying that after the Great Chicago fire of 1871, the U.S. government should have just abandoned the city.”

<snip>

"We help replace, we help relieve disaster," Hastert said. "But I think federal insurance and everything that goes along with it... we ought to take a second look at that."

More...

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#075833

Where the FUCK are OUR leaders???????
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:14 PM
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1. of course they would like to do away with NOLA
only 1 in 4 voted for the bastard
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:15 PM
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2. So THIS is what the Repugs are discussing today?
No talk about getting help to NOLA, just talk about letting it die for good? Unfuckingbelievable! :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:15 PM
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3. My Take Is That This Is A Calculated Decision That Was Made 5 Years Ago
Bushco did not intend spend money to protect the city from near-certain destruction, and they have no intention of rebuilding it, except for the petroleum facilities.
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:20 PM
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9. I think you are correct.
At least Hastert isn't trying to hide the true GOP agenda.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:32 PM
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18. agree
nt
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Der Blaue Engel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:15 PM
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4. I really think I'm going to lose it n/t
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:16 PM
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5. This from the man who will be Pres when Bush and Cheney are impeached?
does vice pres get impeached too? I should know that...
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:22 PM
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If he's to become Prez....
the impeachment crew had better get on the ball. They'll drag their feet until 2010 at this rate!
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:17 PM
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6. @#$%&* HIM. n/t
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:21 PM
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10. My thoughts exactly, LD
What can you expect from a wrestling coach? Back to the mat, denny
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:18 PM
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7. Fine. What's your alternative?
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 03:19 PM by Not Me
Big talk fat boy. Put up or shut up.

On edit: typo
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:19 PM
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8. Ex-New Orleanian KamaAina: Hastert Doesn't Make Sense
That rat's-ass piece of garbage doesn't seem to mind pouring billions down the toilet in Iraq. Why should he give a flying fsck about rebuilding N.O.?!

The irony is that, but for a sex scandal, the speaker would be -- Bob Livingston, from Metairie. You certainly wouldn't have heard such tripe from Livingston.

:banghead:
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:22 PM
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11. They want the area for their own purposes.
:mad:
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:26 PM
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13. "Louis XIV Federal Toxic Waste Dump?"
Oh, God - say it ain't so...
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:42 PM
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21. There must be some big oil reserves underneath NO
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:23 PM
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12. yeah let's just bulldoze it into the gulf and build oil refineries instead
:cry: :sarcasm:

:evilfrown:
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:26 PM
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14. We have no leaders anymore. We live on a ship without a captain.
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:35 PM
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19. The Ship Of State Has Become A Ship Of Fools
If it hasn't been all along.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:29 PM
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15. but the rich assholes who build million-dollar vacation homes on the beach
in the Carolinas who can't get insurance shouldn't be told to stop rebuilding on the taxpayer's dime after their vacation homes are destroyed for the third time??!

WTF??? These people piss me off so much.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:32 PM
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27. Welfare for the rich
I read yesterday about one of the barrier island beach communities of vacation homes that was just about totally washed away. No question about the lunacy of rebuilding there.

There is a certain absurdity of building a city below sea level, next to the sea though.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:30 PM
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16. CALL HIM NOW HERE IS HIS NUMBERS

Ask what he is doing about this disaster

Ask him if they rebuilt anything along the Mississippi

D.C. Office
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Phone: 202-225-2976
Fax: 202-225-0697

Batavia District Office
27 North River Street
Batavia, IL 60510

Phone: 630-406-1114
Fax: 630-406-1808

Dixon Regional Office
119 W. First Street
Dixon, IL 61021

Phone: 815-288-0680
Fax: 815-288-0743

Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
9 AM – 4 PM

Geneseo Regional Office
137 South State Street, Suite 336
Geneseo, IL 61254

Phone: 309-944-3558

Office Hours
Thursday
9 AM – 3 PM
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blurp Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:30 PM
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17. Sorry, but I have to agree.
If someone came up with a scheme to build a city below sea-level on the gulf coast in the path of hurricanes, he'd rightfully be called a fool.

Rebuilding is asking for another disaster down the road.

And it's not evironmentally smart, either.
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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:54 PM
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23. SF and LA are no better off
better abandon them after the next earthquake. NO is a state of mind.They willrebuild with/orwithout. the nation's help. The Netherlands has managed to carve a country out of the North Sea.
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Boredtodeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:14 PM
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26. Then we should abandon Florida as well
It is, after all, hit much more frequently by hurricanes and built on a swamp!
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:35 PM
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20. They only understand destruction.
Not construction. This tendency has been getting worse ever since Reagan, and this is the ultimate expression of it.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:50 PM
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22. Like you'd know what's best, eh Fatso?
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:56 PM
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24. If there's a hell
I'll see that son-of-a-bitch there.
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:08 PM
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25. There is a hell right now...and it's in the middle of N.O.
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