Posted by Dinah on November 3, 2005, at 18:58:57
In reply to Re: ?? » Dinah, posted by zeugma on November 3, 2005, at 17:25:23
I think I partly answered you in my post to Alexandra.
But if you want to say that the President's priorities are not for preserving the environment, not even if preserving the environment is actually cheaper than the consequences of not preserving the environment, I'll agree completely. And if you were to say that policies that would prefer to make huge payoffs in the face of a disaster rather than huge, but less huge, outlays to prevent a disaster, then I'd have to agree completely.
And anything most anyone could say about Brown wouldn't surprise or offend me in the least. That email about dinner in Baton Rouge really astonished me. Not much could surprise me after that.
I think there is some difference between most other areas and New Orleans, though. I *think* we're the only major metropolitan area under sea level. I think you'd have to go to the Netherlands for comparisons.
What I don't agree about is that events would have been one whit different had troops not been sent to Iraq. Or that this is the result of racism or classism. I'm relatively certain any city would get the same treatment.
Sigh. I must be out of my mind to even consider staying here, no matter how much my son likes his school.
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