Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00107)

Chuck,

You make a lot of excellent points. But you would think
that George and Laura Bush might actually watch Fox and see
the same things we saw and feel compelled to do something about
it! I was also hoping God and/or Jesus might also talk to them and 
tell them to do something! :) 

Also last time I checked, Mr. Bush has alot of "power" to do things
us ordinary citizens cannot do if he chooses to do so. 

For example, on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Bush could have seen on the 
major news networks the terrible crisis that millions of us also saw 
on those same cable networks. He could have quite easily called the 
governor of LA, the mayor of NO, the secretary of 
Homeland security, the director of FEMA, the U.S. senators of LA, 
etc. and said that he wanted to send in within the next twenty four 
hours the military and FEMA to aid local and state officals because 
of the overwhelming nature of the disaster. He could have even 
tried to have a teleconference or videoconference with all of these 
officals in order to get everyone on the same page.....

He has the resources, etc. to do that.... You and I can't do 
that.... On Friday 3 days later I guess he finally decided to 
actually do something.....

Yes I know my comments are probably naive but one could only hope 
that true compassion would motivate.................

Daniel


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 9/4/05 7:25:51 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> silva_cass@y... writes:
> 
> > We could now start to see the beginning of the economic collapse 
of the U.S.
> 
> Don't let the media images mislead you. Up here in Wisconsin 
things are 
> still pretty good.
> 
> What happened in New Orleans is not atypical, it just happened on 
a bigger 
> and nastier scale with lots of dead people clogging things up. 
The situation, 
> in many ways, is roughly analogous to what happened to Chicago in 
January of 
> 1979. Now, not many people died in the blizzard, they don't kill 
many folks any 
> more, but there was the same bureaucratic bungling, the frenetic 
activity 
> that always managed to go wrong.
> 
> I'm of the opinion that one of the weaknesses of democracy is that 
it 
> encourages politicians to put things off and hope that nothing bad 
will happen and 
> then when it does they are simply not equipped, either mentally or 
politically 
> to deal with it. Now, in the case of New Orleans, we have an 
agency of 
> government that is perfect for handling such things. It moves 
lots of people, 
> equipment and supplies all over the world at very fast notice. It 
is called the 
> Defense Department. It had everything needed, transport, 
supplies, men, guns. 
> But the politicians screwed things up because they thought it 
could be handled 
> by local agencies.
> 
> With respect to my friends on the other side, I find it difficult 
to blame 
> Bush. He obviously cannot physically change anything by himself, 
and he is 
> totally dependent on information and staff. The same would be 
true if Kerry had 
> been President. It does no good to anyone to blame him, or anyone 
else, at the 
> moment. That only distracts from getting things done. There will 
time 
> enough for that next summer during the congressional election 
campaigns.
> 
> And, in that regard, those who do not like Bush must remember that 
he is 
> going to stay in office until January 20, 2009, no matter what 
they may say simply 
> because it will be impossible for the Democrats to get a 2/3 
majority in the 
> senate to vote to remove him even if they could get a majority in 
the house to 
> vote impeachment. So attacking Bush is a waste of time. His 
people simply 
> don't care. They don't have to.
> 
> And by 2008, this will all be virtually forgotten as other things 
take the 
> front burner in the news and the election will hinge on just about 
anything but 
> a hurricane.
> 
> Chuck the Heretic