I believe W gave an excellent speech. Has any president faced so much tragedy since WWII? You can say what you want about W, but he takes responsibility and works to solve problems.
actually one of the best speeches ive seen from him, nice to see him speak without pausing for applause.though i didn't care for the remark "cruel and wasteful storm" like the weather has a consciense(sp). one thing i question is, more families owning not renting-- only if they owned before. end of speech "may GODbless america". uh-oh he said the g word
I thought Bush did a good job of it. I suppose there will be those that nit-pick it to death, but over all I give it a 8 out of ten.
I was impressed to hear a president make a speach about spending tons of money on such short notice and say that he wouldappoint overseers to try and make sure us tax-payers didn't ripped to the bone.
I have never heard a president do that before. I hope it was more than lip-service.
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Mr-Pirk
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man i missed it, he didn't happen to mention the escaped mice from the N.E., i really don't see how he could of had anything to do with it, oh well time will tell
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Man, I thought you guys would be flipping out. Bush was out there talking like a Democrat. Racial inequality, poverty, vouchers for the homeless, government giving the states billions of dollars......I mean, I liked it, but I thought all you neocons would be screaming like someone cut off your big toe.
I thought Bush's delivery was about at good as it gets for a guy who is not a gifted speaker. He had a sincere tone and touched the emotional needs of the touchy-feely liberals. He even threw out a whining apology for them. More importantly, he provided confidence for the victims that they would receive government help-- something that would scare the hell out of me. But it appears to have worked. I watched an ABC post-speech interview with some evacuees in Houston. Despite the interviewer's attempt to frame questions to evoke some inflammatory remark about Bush, to a victim, the folks said they believed W's words.
But even more importantly, the speech contained real plans for a Gulf Coast recovery from the greatest disaster to ever strike our nation.
I liked the use of an enterprise zone and tax incentives to involve the private sector as it's always more efficient than government.
As a true conservative, I can't wonder where the end to government spending is. W appears to have lived in DC long enough that he has succumbed to the Potomac Fever that afflicts Congress. He spoke repeatedly of 'government money' like some tax fairy deposits it in the U.S. treasury. I can't help wonder if he has lost the concept that government money is really taxpayer money. Those of us who pay attention to such matters know that the American taxpayers are going to foot the $200 billion bill for this 'government aid.' And we also know that government programs almost always spend more than originally promised.
Although my wife and I made donations commensurate with our income first day Katrina hit, we talked yesterday of perhaps donating more due to the magnitude of the disaster. I did some crude calculations this am and informed the missus I don't think we need to give any more as we will be providing approximately $6500 through our income tax.
Ballpark figures come out to about $3,220 per US taxpayer; or looking at it another way, about $34,000 each for every affected person in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The amount of money that has been pledged for NOLA specifically tops $63,000 per inhabitant.
No matter if you're a Dem or a Republican, let's all give each other a pat on the back for our generosity ala George W. Bush.
w. on the tube in 5 min.
