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How High is the Water Momma?
Author: Raine
Date: 06/19/2008 12:50:54
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:
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
The debate about whether Senator John McCain is “McBush’’ continues, but on Thursday one thing will be clear: The presumptive Republican nominee and President Bush will be in Iowa touring areas hard hit by floods.
Mr. McCain’s campaign said on Wednesday that he had decided to cancel a town-hall-style meeting in Minnesota on Thursday morning and visit Columbus Junction, a city of fewer than 2,000 residents. [...]
The McCain campaign said that it was not trying to step on Mr. Bush’s trip and that the two men’s paths would not cross. “We’re not going within 30 miles of the city he’s in,’’ said Charles Black, one of Mr. McCain’s senior advisers.
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:
Now that the water is beginning to recede, the question is, how do we help with the recovery? And Secretary Chertoff briefed me on plans, particularly when it comes to housing. A lot of people are going to be wondering, is there short-term help for housing? And there is, and we'll provide that help.
Secondly, what's going to happen in the long term to the homes? And so Michael is going to set up a housing task force similar to the kind we set up in California for the wildfires, to work with state and local authorities to have an orderly strategy to help people get back in their homes.
I fully understand people are upset when they lose their home. A person's home is their most valued possession. And we want to work with state and local folks to have a clear strategy to help people find -- get back into a place that -- where they can live.
[...]
And finally, Director Nussle is here from the Budget Office. We've got what we called a Disaster Relief Fund. There's enough money in that fund to take care of this disaster. But what we're concerned about is future disasters this year. And therefore, we're going to work with the Congress. Jim Nussle is going to go up to work with Congress to get enough money in the upcoming supplemental to make sure that fund is -- has got enough money to deal with a potential disaster, another disaster this year.
Congress doesn't need to worry about working with the White House on this, because we think the supplemental is the way to go. What they do need to worry about is making sure that there is enough but not too much money in the fund, so we can say we have done our job.
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.
And there is this information from the FY 2007:
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget released their FY 2007 disaster prevention and disaster relief budget:• Pre-disaster mitigation grants total of $100 million, up $50 million from FY 2006
• $3.1 billion will go toward FEMA activities, a $363 million increase in FEMA spending from FY 2006
• An additional $1.94 billion allocated for a disaster-relief fund to cover the costs disaster response and disaster recovery contracts, a $189 million increase from FY 2006
• An additional $70 million will go toward additional disaster prevention and disaster relief contract funding
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
