{"id":125,"date":"2005-08-31T17:14:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-08-31T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T00:18:51","slug":"blame-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/blame-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame Bush!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/exploiting-whowhat\/\">exploitation<\/a>, I want to &#8220;exploit&#8221; the current disaster going on around New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and defer blame not to nature but to President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I am serious.)<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Blumenthal has a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\">Salon<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/opinion\/blumenthal\/2005\/08\/31\/disaster_preparation\/index.html\">&#8220;&#8216;No one can say they didn&#8217;t see it coming'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Upon further research, I found out that the third most likely disaster is an earthquake in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Blumenthal&#8217;s reporting, I also found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swingstateproject.com\/2005\/08\/katrina_proves_1.php\">&#8220;Katrina Proves Bush is a Failure&#8221;<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swingstateproject.com\/\">Swing State Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t think this is &#8220;exploiting&#8221; the situation, but rather highlighting why we must take as many points of view and ideas into consideration and understand the consequences of our actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of exploitation, I want to &#8220;exploit&#8221; the current disaster going on around New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina and defer blame not to nature but to President Bush. (Yes, I am serious.) Sidney Blumenthal has a great article on Salon: &#8220;&#8216;No one can say they didn&#8217;t see it coming&#8217;&#8221; My favorite quote: In early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/blame-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blame Bush!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[37,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}