Reasons

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Has to be cheap eh?

Cause I wont have a job

Where are you going to work???
Tempe or Glibert is better

 

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equipment with them, including dozens of high-water vehicles, Humvees, refuelling tankers and generators that

 

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would be needed in the event a major natural disaster hit the state," The Wall Street Journal reported. "A senior

 

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Army official said the service was reluctant to commit the 4th brigade of the 10th Mountain Division from Fort Polk,

 

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because the unit, which numbers several thousand soldiers, is in the midst of preparing for an Afghanistan deployment."

 

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Bureaucratic manoeuvring also trumped the risk of natural disaster. Former FEMA officials told The Chicago Tribune

 

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that the agency’s capabilities were "effectively marginalised" under President George W. Bush when the agency was

 

[The Monkey Man]

Where are you going to work???
Tempe or Glibert is better

I thought Gilbert was Big $

 

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folded into the Homeland Security Department, with fewer resources and extra layers of bureaucracy, a "brain drain"

 

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as demoralised employees left and a completely unqualified Bush political crony put in charge.

 

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And I dont have a job, so I don't know where I will be working

 

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Once a "tier-one federal agency," FEMA now isn’t "even in the back seat," Eric Holdeman, director of emergency

 

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management in King County, Washington, told The Financial Times. "They are in the trunk of the Department of Homeland Security car."

 

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And I dont have a job, so I don't know where I will be working

Thats daring

 

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Bush funding cuts in 2004 compelled the Army Corps of Engineers to reduce flood-control work sharply, including

 

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badly needed strengthening of the levees that protected New Orleans. Bush’s 2005 budget called for another serious

 

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reduction — a speciality of Bush-administration timing, much like the proposed sharp cut in security for public

 

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transportation right before the London bombings in July 2005.

 

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A disregard for the environment was another factor in this perfect storm. Wetlands help reduce the power of

 

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hurricanes and storm surges, but Sandra Postel, a water-policy expert, wrote in The Christian Science Monitor that

 

[The Monkey Man]

Got to have balls to get what I want...

I may fail, and fall into loserdom

 

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wetlands were "largely missing when Katrina struck," in part because "the Bush administration in 2003 effectively

 

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gutted the ‘no net loss’ of wetlands policy initiated during the administration of the elder Bush."

 

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Got to have balls to get what I want...

I may fail, and fall into loserdom

Go fore it, I havent worked since 2003 but am looking big time now

 

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The human toll of Katrina is incalculable, especially among the region’s poorest citizens, but a relevant number is the

 

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28-per cent poverty rate in New Orleans — more than twice the national rate. During the Bush administration the US

 

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poverty rate has grown, and welfare’s limited safety net has been weakened further.

 

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The effects were so striking that even the right-wing media were appalled by the scale of the class-based and

 

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race-based devastation. While the media were showing vivid scenes of human misery, the back pages reported that

 

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Republican leaders wasted no time in "using relief measures for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf coast to achieve a broad