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Everybody Loves What We’re Doing

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In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war
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Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised “no net loss” of wetlands, a policy launched by his father’s administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers
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In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. “There’s no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection,” said one of the report’s authors. The chairman of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as “highly questionable,” and boasted, “Everybody loves what we’re doing.”

2 Responses

  1. Carlo Marx says:
    2005-09-01 at 10:11:12

    You cite a Scientific American article from 2001 yet you target your anger solely at the chimp who only just got into office, making you the mindless chimp. Why not mention the 8 years that Clinton did nothing. Partesianship is so obviously disingenuous. No one did anything. Not the federal government, not the state government, and not the local government. And presumably the people of New Orleans had their head in their ass, and most likely voted down bonds for improventments. There’s enough blame for everyone.

  2. McRogers says:
    2005-09-07 at 10:11:12

    Meehawl Argumentation Method 1: Distort scales and timelines for your purpose. Eg: Discount dutch flooding as being “50 years go”, and having no relevancy to today. When attacking christianity, only 50 years ago is good enough.

    Meehawl Argumentation Method 2: Arguer says Most A are B, Meehawl then points out pointlessly some B that are not A.

    minus -100 quatloos for holding up “Indonesia and Malaysia” as standard bearers of democracy and freedom while they rank in the lower half of freedom houses index for violations of civil liberties, rule of law, corruption, authoritarian systems, and limited scope for political competition.

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