This debacle goes even beyond Bush.

It's Bush, of course, and all the slimy creatures he surrounds himself with -- but it isn't just Bush and his stooges. It's the whole morally bankrupt philosophy that they ascribe to and that led up to this -- that government shouldn't be employed for the common good (never mind what the Constitution says); its only purpose is to promote commerce and support a military force. It's that evil fuck Grover Norquist wanting to shrink the government to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub. So we give huge tax cuts to people who don't need them, and gut FEMA and all the flood relief programs and reject any use of government funds that could improve the lives of ordinary people. It goes beyond Bush and those other bastards personally; it's the way those soulless fucks THINK. How do you deal with a totally perverse philosophy? What do you do with a whole cabal of idiots who read too much Ayn Rand in college and were dumb enough to take that rot seriously? A lot of people are drunk on this poisonous Kool-Aid -- and how do we change their minds? Was the magnitude of this disaster enough to wake some of them up?

when put into place with actual human beings with actual needs. It assumes that the only people who deserve anything good are those on the top, and those at the bottom don't because they're deficient in some manner. Not only that, but it's as if that kind of philosophy provides license to kick and punish the poor and downtrodden while they're down. It's still amazing to me that so many people refuse to see through this, especially those who will never benefit from it anyway. What a pack of lies.

It's being played out in the human drama called The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I wish it were only fiction.

Perhaps that's what we should call New Orleans now?

That's what some people are already calling it.

cutting all the # until the govt fit into a bathtub

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