For a week's worth of elite looting a city dies
Despite everything, next week the Republicans intend to finish the
legislative process of permanently ending the estate tax, thus
"shifting some $1.5 billion a week - about the same as the Iraq war -
from the public treasury to the bank accounts of the heirs to the
nation's twenty thousand biggest fortunes" (see also here). Strangely
enough, that week's worth of $1.5 billion is also just about what it
would have cost to fix the levees enough to have prevented the New
Orleans disaster, money that Bush claimed he absolutely couldn't
spare, with the conflicting more important claims of his war of choice
in Iraq, and the operation of the Department of Homeland Security (the
department which is spending its money functioning so well in the
disaster relief effort!).
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2473129.html
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