September 3, 2005

• Goddamn the fucking GOP.

  They're sneaking the estate tax 'reform' through congress under cover of the utter destruction of New Orleans which was a direct result of their previous tax reforms and restructuring of the government.

  I mean, if the class issue weren't completely on the surface here... Bush flies around in a jet and looks out the window at the devastation below and does a dutiful job of looking concerned, despite having spent two days on vacation while people were dying.

  And five days later some National Guard units finally show up to help out, despite the availability of many hundreds previous to the hurricane even hitting. The problem? Paperwork. No one at FEMA or DHS had the foresight to authorize any of this stuff, despite a DHS report listing a hurricane strike to New Orleans as the number three threat to national security.

  DHS. The federal organization designed to provide efficiency in a situation like this. Led by the finest political appointments money can buy (amongst Republicans...), they've had four years to address this very issue, coming up with a plan. Except there wasn't a plan. Despite, as I mentioned, being specifically warned that this exact thing was the third biggest threat to national security.

  So now, while poor people die in New Orleans, rich people in DC use the news cycle cover to pass their legislation to turn America into even more of an aristocracy.

  'Katrina' means 'purity.' Pure what?

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