"Analyst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Au contraire. > > 'Project Impact' also involved federal planning to mitigate the damage done > by large natural disasters by taking measures that would be crucial to a > strategy to save lives and cut > recovery costs. > > FEMA had pre-planned "a New Orleans nightmare scenario", in which "the > federal government figured it would pre-deploy nearby ships with pumps to > remove water from the > below-sea-level city and have hospital ships nearby". > > Since 2001, the Bushies have been slashing key federal disaster mitigation > programs, and FEMA's 'Project Impact', created by the Clinton administration, > has been outright > cancelled. > > The result ? > > No pre-deployed ships to pump out the water, and only ONE hospital ship has > been allocated to the area, but it didn't leave it's port until Friday, AFTER > the hurricane struck. > > http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12528233.htm
This Administration and Congress don't care about the common people. Only the rich, the corporations and profits. Al
