This is why we need to privatize FEMA.

[Don1]

See? This is why we need to downsize and privatize FEMA. What's that you say? We already downsized it and it was already privatized starting with a new director in 2002? Well, maybe we need to downsize it more.

:sarcasm:

[XanaDUer]

1. Let's run it like a business!!!!!!!!

...

[Cassandra]

2. Looting it for the benefit of upper management?

Just the ticket!

[Don1]

4. Yes, downsize.

And then give upper management raises. (And Presidential Medals of Freedom).

[Lindacooks]

14. Yeah - like a BUSH business - right into the ground.

[XanaDUer]

19. Don't worry, a rich friend will step in and make America

right again, oh wait, no they won't.

[rfranklin]

3. No, the way to solve the problem is to rescind the Death Tax!

allowed to inherit vast sums of unearned money, the children of the rich will give to Godly charities which would save all the needy people. See?

[Pallas180]

5. You can't be serious. That's what Bush has done-Privatize it &

that' why it doesn't work now.

[Eloriel]

7. Actually, I think it's working exactly as they intend it to work.

ATTN DU RESEARCHERS -- LIHOP/MIHOP evidence stacking up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4588088&mesg_id=4588088

[Don1]

8. There are more tragedies here.

What about the vast coverup of the conditions of poverty in New Orleans to begin with before all this even happened? I mean, there were thousands of people who had no resources to get out because they were poor. And their living conditions don't look too great either. I know I never see stuff like that in the news...Geraldo cries and holds a poor baby now, but what about before the storm?

And who is complicit? Aren't things like the Welfare Reform Act, the Bankruptcy Bill, Social Security privatization, Defense (Contractor) Spending, keeping millions of kids from having free health care, and corporate welfare also conspiracies?

I think it may be time not just to be so anti-Bush, but to expose the whole scandal. Not just the current event, but what were the other fundamental problems of a "classist" society involved here.

[Don1]

6. Yup.

Anyone can see that the people present in New Orleans had charity up the ying-yang. Charity from the rich Republicans is the only solution.

Government programs just don't work. Let's yank them all.

[Independent_Liberal]

9. Right! Let's privatize it!

:)

[roguevalley]

10. the head of a rescue organization shouldn't be a friend or contributer

of the asshat in the white house. I hope he goes to jail.

[Don1]

15. There's Never Any Accountability.

[bribri16]

11. FEMA seemed to work ok after Clinton/Gore changes.

But all of that was changed after Bush.

[Don1]

17. So it's all Clinton's fault.

If he didn't do such a good job, then they never would have thought that they could cut corners in the budget. Therefore, he is responsible for Bush proposing to chop it down.

:crazy:

[Gyre]

12. I think Halliburton should be awarded a no-bid contract

to manage FEMA. Why wait around for the government to create, or allow, another one or thousand "disasters" to facilitate Halliburton's theft of the rest of America's treasury?

Gyre

[Don1]

16. Didn't they just get such a contract for clean-up?

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685

[ldf]

13. well, we DO have Halliburton waiting in the wings...

FEMA would certainly be up their alley.

i'm sure they'll clean up the coast like it's brand new, all shiney and everything.

they seem to be doing such a good job at everything else, why not?

just in case.... :sarcasm:

[Don1]

18. They're not waiting.

They're already in the game.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685

[killbotfactory]

20. FEMA should be disbanded

The poor get screwed, there's more destruction and therefor more rebuilding money can go to Halliburton. It's a win-win!

[Don1]

21. Yes, win-win.

The first win is for the "haves" and the second is for the "have mores."