Do I have it Right? - George Bush let you sit on a roof for four days

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

you lost your grip on your wife and she slipped through your fingers into the murky waters, you waded through chest high waters to the Convention Center where you were starved and dehydrated so you stole a Slim Jim from the 7/11 which disqualified you for humanitarian aid like water and food so you hiked over the Crescent City Bridge where you were turned back by the Gretna Sheriffs. You finally got bundled on a bus to the Astrodome. George Bush will now give you 5 grand to forget the whole thing and let you enter a lottery to win a house and will also allow you to work for less than the prevailing wage in rebuilding the home you lost because he let the levees break.

What a deal!

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Wow! A lottery

sounds like the school voucher system... leave a lot of children behind... and everyone else who loses out...

[Drifter]

17. I guess you can say ...

he's giving everyone a Trifecta.

Cheers
Drifter

[Wickerman]

2. A lottery. I gotta ask, how many tickets does

Halliburton get to hold?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. And, do you have to be present to win? nt.

[Sydnie]

4. Best. Analogy. Of. The. Night. n/t

[bpilgrim]

5. much longer than that for many...

he didn't even show up till the 5th day :argh:


Man rescued in New Orleans after 16 days - by Lieutenant Frederick Fell

more...
http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/index.php?cat=19

peace

[MO_Dem]

6. PLUS, w wants more federal authority so that

if anything like this happens again, you'll have to sit on your roof for 8 days, or perhaps even 12 days or maybe 28 days if it happens at the BEGINNING of w's vacation instead of the middle or end.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. And, we forgot to mention tonights "secret word" - Compassion!

George Fenneman, tell our guests what they have won. First prize is a week for 2 on the ranch in Crawford, cutting brush and bicycling with the Prez. 2nd prize is . . . oh, c'mon you know it - all together now - 2 WEEKS!!!.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. Crictical thinkers? Help me out - isn't this Bush's plan in a nutshell?

I think it's just another scam perpetuated upon the American people and will once again enrich the connected at the expense of the unconnected. Am I being too cynical?

[jbnow]

12. Just going from memory

Is it the house they win or a plot of land and THEN they can get a mortgage or have some charity help them build a house. I wandered away at some point after he said they could get the land. I wondered if he knew what a house cost in relation to their income. I didn't hear any property tax relief either. Seemed like stupid, empty words.

But maybe when I was in the other room he added the house and lower property tax into the lottery.

I wondered if those on SSI or who need to get some welfare help now...does the money they get in this deal count against those benefits like they usually do or is that waved.

I think of the money the victims of 9/11 got. They were attacked by an enemy, went through terror.
These people went through the days of terror and these horrible conditions and loss of every basic need in conditions we can't keep an animal in legally. They were treated like an enemy and not helped.

We owe them BIG BIG money And BUG TRUE answers.

[earth mom]

9. Sad to say, but it's a suckers deal and * knows it.

He's dealing with desperate people and just like the slimy salesman he is he WILL get the better end of the deal. There will be very very very few houses in that "lottery".

Make NO mistake about that! :puke:

[chalky]

10. Dude! A summary worthy of a nomination!

eta: Mind if I steal your rant? I have GOT to pass this on. Promise I'll credit you. ;-)

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

18. Of course! Be my guest - (I'm really a Dudette)

I'm flattered you would want to and thank you for nomination.:)

[chalky]

20. Ooops! "Dudette" I mean.

:blush:

[triguy46]

11. Very good point.

After 4 days, we still couldn't get people off their roofs. Oh yeah, the party of incompetence.

[sandnsea]

13. a lottery to get a loan for a house if you qualify

not win a house

Otherwise, SPOT ON.

[young_at_heart]

14. Don't forget he's sending Karl "to the rescue"

I'm sure everyone feels relieved to know that Karl is in charge now. He'll make things "right as rain" and won't show any partiality to certain people or groups.

[lateo]

15. Opportunity!!!!one !111eleven!111!!1

Um...yeah.

[daninthemoon]

16. Yeah, you have it right.

[tjdee]

19. No, UP TO $5,000. Not eveyone will get five grand.

This is exactly like the debit card deal. The "up to" is getting lost in the shuffle.

For one person it's probably a lot less than that.

[kath]

23. Meanwhile, the families of Sept. 11 victims got in the range of $1 million

each (even though a fair number of them were rich to begin with and had huge insurance policies, investments, etc.)

[indepat]

21. By George, I think you got it.

[AmandaRuth]

22. hey you forgot that boosh

found time to get the Halliburton contracts signed, probably right before he signed the order to lower wages.