Ms. Smith Goes to Washington

November 18, 2005

What Do I Want for Christmas? Bush GOP and FEMA Held Accountable

MS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON
by Shirley Smith

FEMA ... Proof of a Bush GOP skeletal government by design.

Bodies are still being found in New Orleans. Would that happen to an elite GOP neighborhood? I don't think so.  

Until the Hurricane Katrina demonstrated to the world, the ineffectiveness and complete lack of expertise in management by the Bush GOP government, many Americans wanted to be satisfied with Bush's constant reassurance that everything in Iraq was going along just peachy smoothy. Then Americans saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears, that America was less prepared for emergencies than it was before the Bush administration was planted into the White House.

Brownie stayed on the payroll. People died because of his obstinate and stupid decisions. Usually, when a person who is driving recklessly kills someone ... especially if they never had any driving lessons ... that person would have to be punished, because that death would be considered a criminal action. Brownie was not driving, but was in charge of a very important government agency and he failed and people died because of his failure.   Now, if Bush can't take that responsibility, of course, Bush is also responsible because he hired someone without any experience at all ... but the White House should not be able to give someone a pass and determine who should and who should not be punished. Especially, someone like Bush, who is also responsible for a treasonous war.

We don't know how many people died due to FEMA. These people work for Americans. Americans should have the say because it's our lives put in peril. It should not be up to a criminal Bush GOP administration.  

FEMA still looks like a skeleton and still acts like a skeleton today.

Several Texas cities, including Houston and Dallas, have set up city-funded apartment programs for storm victims, anticipating FEMA reimbursement. Under FEMA's new policy, dated Monday, the agency will not pay for any leases signed after Dec. 1, and existing leases must be phased out by March 1.

Housing experts said FEMA is opening itself to legal challenges. On Thursday, 14 people filed a class-action lawsuit in the Eastern District of Louisiana, claiming that FEMA has failed to live up to its responsibility to provide relief to Katrina victims fairly and quickly.

"It appears that FEMA is working very hard to make itself so unreliable that state and local governments will say, 'We can't depend on FEMA in the future,'" Crowley said. "I can't imagine what other explanation there can be for this level of incompetence."

Nationwide, the number of Katrina evacuees living in shelters has fallen to 2,491, down from a high of 321,000 shortly after the storm, FEMA said. The agency said 1.4 million families have registered as storm victims and 500,000 families have received housing assistance.

FEMA Tells 150,000 in Hotels to Exit In 15 Days (Washington Post)

What these people don't need is more abuse from the Bush GOP administration. When is enough going to be enough? When are Americans going to want a government instead of one very large propaganda machine that has done absolutely nothing except go to war against Iraq and Americans ...  which has given us tens of thousands of deaths and the largest debt ever, since the Bush GOP have been in the White House.  

People would expect a government to at least try to look like it was going to "shape up," but not the Bush GOP government ... even after the New Orleans FEMA catastrophe, Bush filled a committee that is to oversee intelligence issues with nine campaign contributors to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board ... more people who bought their job. More proof of what we all have known, that if you have enough money, you can buy anything from the Bush GOP White House. Another reason that Bush needs to lose his job.  

And, after all Americans are going to have to pay for, the cuts don't come from the wealthy ... the Bush GOP constantly want to cut programs that are for the poor ... as if we Americans should be the ones to pay for the Bush GOP's criminal mistakes. And, thanks to members of Congress who feel responsible to this country and its citizens ...  instead of the Bush GOP ... who voted against a bill this week that was said to have hurt those most needy.

I want to see love shared among Americans again, and a spirituality expressed throughout this Nation, instead of this hate and bigotry that is in the news almost every single day by some member of the Bush GOP or their followers ...  Americans have much healing to do since Bush came into office and we have much healing to do because of the hate that Bush's leadership has brought against this country from people who used to be our friends and neighbors around the world.  

We Americans have no idea how many years it will take to clean up after this criminal administration. Countries can't win friends and influence people by waging war around the world and here at home.  And, peace and goodwill will never be accomplished with the Bush GOP administration in the White House. These people are not leaders, they don't work for the American people ... they are useless.  

This constant hacking away at our nation's working class and poor does not represent this nation. If it does, then we are no longer a democracy. We must impeach this Bush GOP administration, not only because they weren't elected, but because they are a treasonous administration ...  bring our troops home, try and patch up some of the hate that has been spread around the world by this weak and bullying monarchal Bush GOP administration ... that's what I want for Christmas. And, do I still believe in the fat man? Yes.  

Thanks BuzzFlash,

Shirley Smith

Shirley Smith is a regular BuzzFlash Reader and Contributor. Many of her earlier posts can be found in the Mailbag.