Reply #11: Given Bush's documented penchant for vindictiveness... [View All]

[newswolf56]

these election results go a long way to explain why he slashed the levee-improvement and disaster relief funds for New Orleans, why he privatized the FEMA responsibilities (no doubt to a Halliburton-type friend), and why he hasn't troubled himself to make any federal response. Also might explain why the Army helicopters never showed up to help close the break in the levee.

But the worst is yet to come: wait until Bush's Christofascist/Conservative hostility to social services hamstrings the rebuilding effort -- or turns it into another profit center for his oligarchic friends.

Not only that, but gasoline at probably $5 per gallon (according to an earlier DU post, already $3.30 in Chicago).

This storm and its consequences are not just el finito for New Orleans -- the resulting fuel crisis may very well be the end of life in America as we have known it: forever. And Bush and the oligarchy will gloat all the way to the bank -- while the rest of us sink into ever-worsening poverty.


Edit: typo.