Damn environmentalists

I was very surprised to learn at a dinner party this evening that the loss of New Orleans was caused by environmentalists. It seems that every time the administration wanted to construct or improve levees they were prevented from doing so by environmentalists. According to this couple, doing anything to the levees would have dire environmental consequences and therefore nothing could be done. And oh, by the way, the disappearance of the wetlands that might have protected the city had nothing to do with development - it was all a result of just natural erosion. Was I being cowardly by refusing to talk with them about this? Or should I have totally disrupted the dinner party by shouting, screaming, yelling, cursing, and perhaps even engaging in physical violence?

You should understand that this followed after a meeting last night in which people were attacking an environmental group about which they know nothing. NOTHING! Their ignorance is so profound as to be astonishing. They have these myths they continue to tell each other year after year that have absolutely no basis in fact. They could without very much effort easily learn about this group, all they would have to do is look it up on the web, but they don't have to do that because they believe they already know the truth. Dumb bastards is too generous a term for these people.

There is obviously a good deal of outrage over the New Orleans situation. Outrage on the one hand over the slowness of responding to the disaster, and on the other over having diverted funds from New Orleans needs to the "war" in Iraq. There seems to be little doubt that this happened. When the Corps of Engineers requested 208 million dollars they received 10 million and so on. It has been known for years that the levees were highly vulnerable and for years the problem has been neglected, moreso under the Bush/Cheney administration than previously. Of course they will never admit to this, just like they never admit to anything. Watch them try to blame it on Clinton. That same Clinton that now refuses to criticize them and is embarking once again with George Bush Sr. on a fund raising trip to aid the victims. Why should private money have to be used to overcome a disaster that should have been prepared for and funded by taxpayer dollars? According to Bush/Cheney the administration has no responsibility for such things, especially when the money has to go into their immoral and disgusting "war" in Iraq.

And do not forget Bush's immortal claim that "no one expected the levees to give way." Of course not after many many years of research into that very problem. This claim is right up there with Condi Rice's "no one thought they would use planes to attack buildings. Please, I beg of you, how much longer do we have to put up with this absolutely incompetent, lying, dishonest, immoral, greedy, stupid, miserable bunch of crooks. Is there just no limit to the gullibility of the American public? What is wrong with people who can still claim to support this bunch of lunatics?

We are all still just infants in increasingly decaying bodies.
Mel Firestone