From the Los Angeles Time: "Republican leaders said they were considering an economic stimulus package that probably would include tax relief for hurricane victims".
«Tax relief», as in: the destitute refugees who lost everything they owed (which wasn't much to start with, since most of them were too poor to leave the city) will now be able to remind their accountants to enter government-allowed deductions in their income tax returns, that type of «tax relief»?
"There is a substantial chance that it will carry over into the 2006 elections" if the relief efforts do not improve and reconstruction projects falter" the newspaper opined.
Ya think?
I'm hoping that Bush will be impeached before he can step down in 2008, but I know that all he has to do now is to appear on TV to deliver one of his 9-11 mantra speeches, in front of an appropriately patriotic background, surrounded by an appropriate number of grateful-looking black tokens and he will be hailed once again as a strong compassionate Dear Leader. Will this horrifying disaster be enough to snap the Bush-loving population out of its hypnotic trance or will the ethnicity and social status of its victims condemn it to be a simple entry in the 2005 Book of Records?
I don't know which is more despairing: the level of incompetence and callousness of the Bush administration or the fact that they will get away with it.
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