[UncoveringTruths]

Laura Bush is blasting the Myanmar military for not meeting the basic needs of the people after a tropical cyclone. What kind of nostalgic BS is that? I guess she was on vacation during Katrina.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')U.S. first lady Laura Bush, who has a long-standing interest in Myanmar, urged the government to allow the team into the country, saying she expected Washington would provide "substantial" aid if it could conduct its own assessment of the situation on the ground.

And she blasted the junta, saying the lack of warning before a deadly cyclone hit on Friday was the latest example of "the junta's failure to meet its people's basic needs."

[Plantagenet]

The US has spent about 200 billion (with a b) dollars on Katrina Relief.

Thats more in total then has ever been spent on any other natural disaster, and far far more on a per capita basis. Its more than 100 million (with a m) dollars for every single fatality caused by the storm.

That is a huge and utterly unprecedented amount of spending on a natural disaster.

How many more millions and billions of dollars more do you need to meet your "basic needs"?

[Ferretlover]

Laura married George. What does that tell you about her intellectual prowess?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', 'L')aura married George. What does that tell you about her intellectual prowess?

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he US has spent about 200 billion (with a b) dollars on Katrina Relief.

[DrBang]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he US has spent about 200 billion (with a b) dollars on Katrina Relief.

[Ferretlover]

Corps: East Jeff and St. Charles levees may have flaws
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Portions of St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes’ northern flank along Lake Pontchartrain may not be as safe from hurricanes as previously thought.
New computer models run by the Army Corps of Engineers questions safety along the levees and new data indicates heavy duty fabric may be too short to keep levees in place during a hurricane.
“Due to new design criteria and lessons learned,” Capt. Eric Marshall from the Corps said, “we are refining our design so we can produce a better product.”
The new Crops models are angering members of the Southeastern Louisiana Flood Protection Authority, since they learned about the potential fatal flaws from the media. …
Flawed levees

[Novus]

The whole Katrina incident was an example of extreme corruption. Most of the money simply vanished into nowhere. You would be hard pressed to find even $10 billion of the government money that went to anything concrete. Many of the people who lost family members and homes got nothing from the government. Their post Katrina recovery was largely financed by private insurance money not the government bail out.

Same thing happened with the lower Manhattan recovery project after 9/11. There was 40 billion earmarked to rebuild the WTC after the attacks and get businesses to return to the downtown. Here we are 7 years later and the 40 billion is gone and ground zero is still a giant hole in the ground. The original owner of the twin towers is trying rebuild with some private insurance money he got. The 9/11 widows got most of their money from their partners' employer and some from the Red cross and other private charities. So where did the $40 billion go? Who knows, who cares.

Don't even get me started on the billion dollar a day Iraq war.

I can only pray karma catches up to Bush and his cronies.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')he whole Katrina incident was an example of extreme corruption. Most of the money simply vanished into nowhere. You would be hard pressed to find even $10 billion of the government money that went to anything concrete. Many of the people who lost family members and homes got nothing from the government. Their post Katrina recovery was largely financed by private insurance money not the government bail out.