JASON LEOPOLD: LA Lawmakers Predicted An Apocalyptic End To New Orleans

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By Jason Leopold -- World News Trust

Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.

If anything, Bush’s tenure as president proves that the Republican tax cuts (which everyone knows truly benefit the wealthiest one percent) -- drastically slashing funds in the federal budget for much needed improvements to the country’s aging infrastructure (a perfect example being the outdated power grid), and trying to get away with launching wars on the cheap -- have cost taxpayers and their unborn grandchildren more money than anyone could have ever imagined.

Simply put, since he became president, Bush has not invested the funds to fix the cracks in the country’s façade, despite repeated warnings from experts and intense lobbying efforts by state officials that ignoring the problem will make it worse in the long run. Instead, the president pumped tens of billions of dollars into an unnecessary war that, when it became evident that attaining victory was tougher than the war planners imagined, required tens of billions of dollars more just to continue the fighting.

Only when devastation and catastrophe struck the nation did the federal government cough up the funds, but by then there wasn’t much of a choice, and as such a $1 billion restoration project before a devastating hurricane touched down in the Gulf Coast has turned into a $200 billion reconstruction effort and has now saddled taxpayers with economic woes that no tax cut can relieve.

http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=1059

[LiberalArkie]

1. The point!!

You are missing the point here.

If money had been spent pre-Katrina on infrastructre (pick any project any city, anywhere). That project would have to be put up for competative bid. God help us if some union shop or non Republican company got the bid.

Now billions can be spent on the projects, know full well whose pockets they are lining.

The point is when public money is to be spent on the public, they believe that it should only go to their friends. It was the same way back in the old Democratic conservtive days of Faubas, Long etc. That is the only way conservatives think of doing business.