Laura Bush has the gall to trumpet "FAITH-BASED" recovery of Katrina schools

[Bluebear]

Notice, also, that the White House has sent her (via our tax dollars) to acclaim that "faith-based" groups are the BEST EQUIPPED to "mend hearts and lives".

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Contact: Rebecca Neale, The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, 202-494-6906

NEW ORLEANS, May 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- Continuing a two-day Gulf Coast Conference on Disaster Relief and Preparedness, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives today highlighted promising public-private collaborations following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to help restore communities and target pressing needs of Americans affected by the disasters. Joined by Mrs. Laura Bush, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu and U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, the conference spotlighted successful ongoing Federal and local partnerships with nonprofits, particularly with efforts to rebuild Gulf Coast education infrastructure and meet needs of America’s youth.

"... Faith-based and community organizations are the foundation upon which a better and stronger Gulf Coast can be rebuilt," said Mrs. Bush. "While the government can help rebuild brick and mortar, the organizations represented in this room are best equipped to mend hearts and lives. Through your inspired local leadership, we can renew New Orleans and establish the Gulf Coast as a region of hope for all Americans."

To aid more than 1,100 public, private and parochial schools that closed and displaced 370,000 students following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush worked with Congress to provide almost $2 billion to reopen schools. The state of Louisiana, supported by approximately $45 million in Federal investment, is working to rebuild and strengthen its education system through unprecedented expansion of charter schools, particularly in the New Orleans area, to ensure families were provided access to quality education options. Critical to this effort is the nonprofit sector, which plays a key role in supporting and operating charter schools and other public and private education efforts. Today, approximately 42% of New Orleans schools are charters – the highest percentage of any U.S. city.

"Following the Gulf Coast storms, faith-based and community groups delivered help and hope by launching new schools and offering sound educational options for families," said OFBCI Director Jay Hein. "As advocates and allies, these compassionate organizations and volunteers are helping turn the tide for disadvantaged young Americans and ensure a more hopeful future."


http://www.earnedmedia.org/wh05302.htm

[TomInTib]

1. Why don't they simply pray to Baby Jesus?

Let him rebuild those schools with a wave of his hand.

[jmowreader]

2. Maybe she has a point

"Now, sugar, my Georgie made sure to spend all the money on his pet war. So y'all better just get on your knees and start prayin' to Jesus to help you little sinners because your government can't afford to."

[blondeatlast]

3. Pretty un-Christian of me to say it, but fuck Laura. She hasn't got an ounce

of empathy in her upholstered body.

Fuck her, fuck her. :mad:

[Bluebear]

4. Also. Her mother-in-law said the hurricane worked out "very well" for people.

They had nothing anyhow, so evidently there was nothing left to rebuild. More money for Halliburton!

(PS...her "upholstered" body :rofl: )

[blondeatlast]

13. If the chintz fits, she wears it! Thanks for appreciating my humor. nt

[pleah]

12. My thoughts exactly.

[blondeatlast]

14. We're going to hell, you know, but if I have to share my reward with the likes of her, I'm already

there. :mad:

[JI7]

16. i agree,she disgusts me

she always comes off as cold and uncaring. with the frozen creepy face and the fake smile plastered on her face.

[DemoTex]

5. Barbara Bush's Katrina Donation to Enrich Her Son (Neil) .. REMEMBER?

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

Since then, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight area schools that took in substantial numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

"Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools," said Jean Becker, former President Bush's chief of staff. "She knew that HISD was using this software program, and she's very excited about this program, so she wanted to make it possible for them to expand the use of this program."

The trip to Fleming Middle School is intended to showcase Bush's commitment to education for both Houston-area and New Orleans evacuee students, according to a press release issued Wednesday by Ignite. (more at Truthout ..)

http://www.truthout.org/article/barbara-bushs-katrina-donation-enrich-her-son

Barbara Bu$h gets a big fat tax deduction while her whore-mongering son Neil profiteers on the misery of Katrina. This is what Laura really meant by faith-based.

In the words of novelist Harry Crews, "Shit in one hand and pray in the other, and see which hand fills up first." Only thing, the Bu$hes' hands always fill up with money. Blood-stained cash.

[Disturbed]

8. Laura Bush is a self centered phony.

She presents a fake persona for the public that the Corp Media promotes. She is, in reality, a mean spirited, selfish, arrogant, ignorant person just like her husband. She has promoted RWing causes such as Anti-Stem Cell Funding and has campaigned for RW Candidates. Claiming that she is a Private Citizen is as bogus as her phony public persona. She champions causes such as Women's Rights in Afghanistan and schools for Iraqis and Afghans but it is merely lip service because she does nothing about these causes nor does she contribute any of her own money towards them. Laura Bush is a vapid, phony person and should be shunned yet she remains popular with the millions in America because the Corp Media goes along with her charade.

[frebrd]

6. All of which will probably be implemented...

and never subsequently changed, regardless of who is elected the next president.

We may as well get used to creeping Theocracy!

[warren pease]

7. When you eliminate all the other possibilities...

...you're kind of stuck with things like faith and belief systems and ancient vindictive great white fathers in the sky.

There's never going to be any money available to make the poor, black sections of New Orleans whole. In fact, that seems to be the whole idea: urban renewal by hurricane; demolition as gawd intended it.

So if faith's what's left, I suppose they're stuck with it. I just don't have any idea who or what they plan to have faith in.

They could alway go with the ancient vindictive great white father in the sky, but they've probably had more than enough of placing their faith in powerful white people.

I'd go with some animist cult where raccoons, cats and humans are on an equal footing. It's kind of an insult to the raccoons and cats, but you've got to start somewhere.


wp

[sutz12]

9. So she's telling them to "Cling to their faith in adversity."

Hmmmmmm. Where have I heard that before?

:evilgrin:

[old mark]

10. what this means is

Bush has faith that someone else will help NO because he sure won't.

mark

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Faith based?

As in "god send the hurricane to punish N.O. fer it's wicked ways" faith based?

Ya gotta wonder who's gonna make out like a bandit on this one.

Probably the same folks who made the above remarks :puke:

[LordJFT]

15. I'm sure the neglect was faith-based as well

[blondeatlast]

17. In the bizarro little world that is NeoCon, you are probably right.

Real suffering is as foreign to them as the surface of Mars.