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Wednesday, September 7, 2005 |
Christine Adelhardt: "Two minutes ago the President drove by with his convoy. What happened here in Biloxi during the day is really unbelievable. All of a sudden the rescue troops finally showed up, the clean-up vehicles; we didn't see those over the last days here. In an area where it really isn't urgent, there is nobody around, all the remaining people went to the city center.
The President is traveling with a press convoy, so they get wonderful pictures saying the president was here and the help will follow. The amount of this catastrophe shocked me, but the amount of set-up that happened here today is at least equally shocking for me."
The reality is there to stay.
Listen to this Mother Jones interview.
CommonDreams: "Just when you couldn't be shocked any further, news item: This coming week, the U.S. Senate intends to vote to permanently abolish the federal estate tax, the country's only tax on large inheritances of wealth.
In light of the failure to invest in protecting the Gulf Coast and the shameful federal response following Hurricane Katrina, there is no clearer evidence that Republican leaders 'just don't get it'. Passing a $1 trillion tax break for billionaires in the wake of one of our country's worst national disasters is grotesque and shameful."
Compassionate conservatism doesn't go farther than a hug before the camera.
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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