Wasn’t this going to happen after 9/11?? Weren’t we as citizens and the government as our agent going to change?

We citizens went back to our routines… worrying about our personal disasters and celebrating our personal successes. Our government adopted a philosphy which many of us thought was flawed; we protested, yet did failed to impress.

My favorite suggestion for eliminating pork came from Dave Barry. He suggested that his cabinet (when he was elected prez) would be headed by his spinsterly aunt. Any dollar spent by the government would have to be OKd by her. Make the reason clear and good and she’d OK your spending… obfuscate or waste funding on pork, and you’d be vetoed.

Could we ask all our congressmen and senators to be their own “spinsterly aunts?” I wish that saying that could make it happen, but it’s not the nature of the job.

It’s like preventive medicine a dollar invested now will save 100’s that will be spent in the future.

Frank

That scenario is unlikely, I think the bigger question we should be asking is how is all of this 51.8 BILLION dollars going to spent????????????? I am extremely concerned with what their plan of action is for the future?

Someone from Europe

Will you please run for president, and soon? I don’t care what political party you represent, I just want someone like you in the White House.

Mike

I’m really surprised that no one brought up an environmental program to be installed. No one really can deny the concept of global warming and it’s influences on natural catastrophies. Actually the US is the only country in the world denying it. But how do you explain the increase in devastating hurricanes and typhoons? Statistical anomalies? Bad luck?
I personally tend to believe scientists who have studied the gulf stream, the motor of world climate, for decades. The important water circulation is slowing down due to rises of water and air temperatures thereby affecting a lot of climatic changes, including a notable weather change in west africa. This is the place where most of the hurricanes that strike the US form themselves. While I must admit that no scientist can really prove this and there are more factors to be considered, the world’s leading environmetal scientists aggree on this.
But even if there is no direct link between these two phenomena, why risk it? It will hurt our economy is the argument I’ve heard more than a few times. Will it?
The US is the leading country concerning the research of renewable energies and ecology friendly production. Why not use it? Oh wait…who will be the only loser in this deal?

SIGN KYOTO!

The focus and interest of US government resources is and has been abroad for several generations.

How can we expect to take care of people within our own borders when the focus has been on building wealth world wide?

The enemy of the US is not terrorists, it’s the divide between rich and poor. The terrorist scare movement is simply a smoke screen to implement foreign and domestic policy that is in direct conflict with the proper care and feeding of human life here at home and world wide.

Katrina simply exposed the US governments true character! !

One Nation Under The All Mighty Dollar.