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Bush is to blame for all the problems

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by church mouse guy, Sep 2, 2005.

  1. church mouse guy

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    Bush failed to undo what Clinton did in not signing the Kyoto Protocol, which would have ended global warming, which was started by Ronald Reagan.
     
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    Reagan started global warning? The Kyoto accord would have stopped it? Come on CMG, are you trying to play me along so I will praise Bush?

    Not ONE signatory of Kyoto has acheived their goals for 2005. Only the US is close to what would have been her goal if she had stayed a part of it.
     
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    The government is to blame for not having an adequate levee system in place that could have prevented the flooding.

    The government is to blame for not having a disaster plan springing into action the moment that what they knew was a woefully inadequate levee system broke.
     
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    There is a pipe dream if I ever saw one.

    Hurricanes and natural disasters have been around about as long as disease and poverty. Last check, that was prior to 2001.
     
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    Uhm.....I THINK C.M.G. is kidding.
     
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    The government is to blame for not having an adequate levee system in place that could have prevented the flooding.

    The government is to blame for not having a disaster plan springing into action the moment that what they knew was a woefully inadequate levee system broke.
    </font>[/QUOTE]I agree if you're talking about Louisiana and New Orleans Governments. They were the ones who should have lobbied for it until they got it.
     
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    The government is to blame for not having an adequate levee system in place that could have prevented the flooding.

    The government is to blame for not having a disaster plan springing into action the moment that what they knew was a woefully inadequate levee system broke.
    </font>[/QUOTE]I agree if you're talking about Louisiana and New Orleans Governments. They were the ones who should have lobbied for it until they got it.
    </font>[/QUOTE]Lobbied?

    I think they should have collected the money from the citizens of Lousiana and made sure it got done.
     
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    The average American works until July to pay all their taxes - federal, state, and local.
     
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    I fail to see how. That means that 50% of their money goes to paying taxes. That's just not the case. My personal income tax rate is 15%. If I calculate all the sales tax I paid last year (about $3000), property tax ($1500), that still only puts me to about late March or early April at the lastest. That's more like 25-28%.
     
  10. church mouse guy

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    Read that last year this time FEMA was able to act quickly in Florida and Bush was accused of moving so quickly for political reasons:

    Even before the storm hit, the president declared four counties disaster areas to speed federal money to victims. But that quick response fueled suspicion that he is using disaster politics to help his campaign in one of the most critical battleground states, a notion the president dismissed Sunday.

    "Yeah, and if I didn't come they'd have said he should have been here more rapidly," Mr. Bush said.


    from CBS
     
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    The city of New Orleans has been forking over 2-3 million dollars a year to a sports franchise to cover losses involved in the use of the Superdome.

    Which is more important? A sports franchise or the lives of your citizens?

    Priorities folks.
     
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    We are in the same situation with the Colts. We are cutting the number of police and firefighters so that Peyton Manning can have a new dome here in Indianapolis. The NFL is not on a businesslike footing but needs government money all over.

    Cindy Sheehan has also blamed Bush for the hurricane--it's his environmental policies. Also, our dear friends the Germans are blaming Bush for the hurricane because of his environmental policies.
     
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    And we can do it without signing our soveriegnty as a nation over to those that hate us and would love the power to dictate to us. Clinton is a one worlder that would give the whole country away to satisfy the wants of his buddies in the UN.
     
  14. NaasPreacher (C4K)

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    http://www.adamsmith.org/tax/index.php

    Tax Freedom Day was May 31st 2005
     
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    "The American president has closed his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes such as Katrina -- in other words, disasters caused by a lack of climate protection measures -- can visit on his country." Who wrote this? None other than Jürgen Trittin, Germany's minister of the environment.
     
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    And Germany is WAY behind her Kyoto obligations.
     
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    C4K, let's not introduce any more elements of rationality into this discussion, okay? We are showing that Bush responded quickly in Florida a year ago for political reasons. However, we know from Jürgen Trittin, Cindy Sheehan, and Robert Kennedy, Jr., that Bush caused this hurricane.
     
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    Let's see, in Florida, where his brother is governor and which was politically crucial to him, Bush reacted before the storm hit and was criticized, while in Louisiana, a vacationing Bush didn't react until how long after?

    It's possible, those critics have a point...
     
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    See CMG, not ALL my posts are anti-Bushian ;) .
     
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    Let's see, in Florida, where his brother is governor and which was politically crucial to him, Bush reacted before the storm hit and was criticized, while in Louisiana, a vacationing Bush didn't react until how long after?

    It's possible, those critics have a point...
    </font>[/QUOTE]Maybe not, Daisy, since GW did the same thing this time and declared federal disaster areas so that FEMA was able to begin to mobilize even before the storm hit. I am not a Bush fan, but at least get the facts straight.
     
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