Sea change
Tom Paine
by Nick Penniman
09/16/05
Remember how, when President Bush opened up our public lands to logging, he called it 'Healthy Forests?' And remember how, when he gutted the Clean Air Act, he called it 'Clear Skies?' The plan he rolled out last night to rebuild the Gulf Coast should have been called the 'New Great Society.' As MSNBC's Joe Scarborough remarked during one post-speech spin session, aspects of the $300 billion plan would put Lyndon Johnson to shame. At least, that's how it appeared on TV. The reality is, of course, very different from the rhetoric... [editor's note: This is another cry for "more public funding," in the face of the very real failure of FEMA and the Bushites to even ACT, or release what was already collected for the purpose; as usual, it misses the point entirely in its cry for tax hikes to subsidize more incompetence! - SAT]
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050916/sea_change.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Nick Penniman
09/16/05
Remember how, when President Bush opened up our public lands to logging, he called it 'Healthy Forests?' And remember how, when he gutted the Clean Air Act, he called it 'Clear Skies?' The plan he rolled out last night to rebuild the Gulf Coast should have been called the 'New Great Society.' As MSNBC's Joe Scarborough remarked during one post-speech spin session, aspects of the $300 billion plan would put Lyndon Johnson to shame. At least, that's how it appeared on TV. The reality is, of course, very different from the rhetoric... [editor's note: This is another cry for "more public funding," in the face of the very real failure of FEMA and the Bushites to even ACT, or release what was already collected for the purpose; as usual, it misses the point entirely in its cry for tax hikes to subsidize more incompetence! - SAT]
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050916/sea_change.php
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 19. Sep, 10:26
