His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.
My answer is this:
In many ways, that's exactly what his job description entails. His job is to make sure that Americans are cared for. That's the role of the fucking government and if they're not going to do that, we've got some problems.
Actually, it would seem that way on appearance but it's not the case. If his job description were to provide everyone with a car, mobility, and health (good sense is beyond the power of any leader to provide,) we would be a socialist state. As we are a capitalist state, those things are quite simply beyond his purview. Bush fucked up saving the poor people of New Orleans, but he's not the one that put them there. They wound up there on account of over two hundred years of class, governmental, and racial interaction. The deck was stacked against many of those people from the start.
I had been getting the impression for some time now that Bush has the "it's my second term, so I don't care!" attitude going on. I never noticed that attitude in Clinton, but it seems to be there in Bush. That's a purely subjective observation on my part, though, so I could be dead wrong.
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Date: 2005-09-08 07:23 am (UTC)My answer is this:
In many ways, that's exactly what his job description entails. His job is to make sure that Americans are cared for. That's the role of the fucking government and if they're not going to do that, we've got some problems.
Actually, it would seem that way on appearance but it's not the case. If his job description were to provide everyone with a car, mobility, and health (good sense is beyond the power of any leader to provide,) we would be a socialist state. As we are a capitalist state, those things are quite simply beyond his purview. Bush fucked up saving the poor people of New Orleans, but he's not the one that put them there. They wound up there on account of over two hundred years of class, governmental, and racial interaction. The deck was stacked against many of those people from the start.
I had been getting the impression for some time now that Bush has the "it's my second term, so I don't care!" attitude going on. I never noticed that attitude in Clinton, but it seems to be there in Bush. That's a purely subjective observation on my part, though, so I could be dead wrong.