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Dec 11, 2005 13:58

The price tag for protection against a Category 5 hurricane, (stronger levees, new drainage canals and environmental restoration)... $32 billion.

Total allocations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terror... $300 billion. All that money has been appropriated as the cost of protecting the nation from terrorist attacks. But what ( Read more... )

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squid_ink December 11 2005, 20:28:36 UTC
Several people have told me, don't get me a Christmas gift, make a donation to a relief organization... I think my dad put it best when he added "The government isn't going to help us, we have to help ourselves" (the US being the citizens of the US).

There is no internal support system for the people in the government, it's been whittled away in the past five years. And it's nothing short of criminal.

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the_automatik December 12 2005, 14:34:50 UTC
This makes me want to throw up, scream, and cry.

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