Good morning. Today the pResident will take a tour of the Midwest. So will the man who wants to be President. But don't worry, They won't been seen together. McCain wouldn't want you to think he is like a third term of *ush, you know.
OK, we get it Johnny, you are just LIKE *ush. I took a look at John McCain's website and saw nothing about the Flooding disaster anywhere. In the meantime the Barack Obama campaign has mobilized itself to get relief to the victims of this disaster; it is telling the stark differences between the two. Obama is doing what he promised, he is mobilizing people from the ground up to help each other. And Bush and McCain are just getting around to touring the area. To see how you can help go to Obama's Website.

Also, please visit The Red Cross. Our own 4F Family member, Velveeta Jones, is on the ground in the midwest helping out. They have a dangerously low disaster relief fund. We love her for all she does.

Speaking of assistance and disaster relief, this is something that I find highly disturbing. During his briefing to the press, pResident *ush said the following: The waters are not receding in the Mississippi river. They may have receded north, but this is not over. I am concerned about housing, considering we still have people homeless from Katrina thanks to the failed *efforts* of FEMA. Just last week, CNN reported, that FEMA gave away 85 million dollars worth of disaster relief suppies that were supposed to go to Katrina survivors. Since then some of it has been recovered, but the reality is that FEMA sat on, and then gave away to local states and counties (schools, prisons etc.) the very things people need when they lose thier homes: dinnerwear, cots, coffee makers, toilet paper,... the basics. And Now we have *ush say that we have enough money for this disaster, but not for another.

Let me ask this, do we have trailers yet? I think we are still waiting for them. FEMA doesn't have a long term disaster plan. If they did, we would not have to have the pResident to say that we 'WILL' be setting up a long term housing task force.

Now, when *ush tells us that there is enough money in the Disaster relief fund for ONLY this disaster, he is deeper in the bullshit than the silt left behind from the flooding. There is no way to tell how much this is going to cost, especially when the floodwaters are still rising. And when *ush tell congress to attach it to the upcoming supplemental, be very wary of those code words. He wants as much money as he can get, attached to the upcoming vote of the war funding. Remember also that for the federal government the fiscal year ends on September 30.

I have spent the past day or so looking for the Disaster Relief Budget numbers. I cannot find them, bu I did find this.
From FEMA's website:

A $100 million increase for FEMA’s Vision Initiatives, including staffing increases, new technologies, and targeted investment in equipment and supplies that will support emergency management efforts across preparedness, protection, response, and recovery.
The transfer of $48 million from the Disaster Relief Fund to the Operations, Planning and Support account to convert FEMA’s Cadre of On-Call Response Employee (CORE) positions with 4-year terms into permanent full-time employees.

They took money OUT of the disaster relief fund.

And there is this information from the FY 2007:
So where is the money? *ush doesn't know. He cannot possibly know, but he sure as hell wants to tangle up the relief for Americans at home by using them as pawns to get his money for more war.

How High is the Water Momma? About as deep as the crap this administration is feeding us.

:peace: and
Raine