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I really don't see how this inevitable disaster can be blamed on the president when the problem has been known for decades.


We could start with President Bush's policies and Administration directly refusing to fund the maintanence and support of the New Orleans Levee system. We could continue with the Administraion's direct involvement of reducing the scope and ability of FEMA to do anything. We could continue with the Administration's continued budget cutting against specific warnings about situations like this.

What this Administration has done instead is to reduce the federal revenue by cutting taxes for the wealthy, and spending huge amounts of the rest of the budget on a poorly cosidered military activity. There is no funding or ability for the parts of the goverment that should be able to deal with this situation, to deal with this situation.