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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 47923"><p>Thanks susie. </p><p> </p><p>Well, that explains it. </p><p> </p><p>If you listen to it in context he was throwing in a lighthearted chummy remark to a fellow millionaire and he wasn't thinking in terms of it being heard by the thousands of regular and poor people who have lost everything they owned, not just a small, inconvenient portion of their portfolio. </p><p> </p><p>Sheesh, back to it was an incredibly stupid, ignorant and callous thing to say and somebody needs to either fire his scriptwriters or tell him to quit adlibbing as he is terrible at it. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On another note: </p><p> </p><p>the decision to make FEMA a part of the Department of Homeland Security, created after the September 11, 2001 attacks, was a major mistake. Rubin said FEMA functioned well in the 1990s as a small, independent agency. </p><p> </p><p>"Under DHS (Department of Homeland Security), it was downgraded (FEMA), buried in a couple of layers of bureaucracy, and terrorism prevention got all the attention and most of the funds," she said. </p><p> </p><p>Perhaps the results would have been far better if the hurricane had been named Osama Big Winda rather than a homey English name like Katrina.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 47923"] Thanks susie. Well, that explains it. If you listen to it in context he was throwing in a lighthearted chummy remark to a fellow millionaire and he wasn't thinking in terms of it being heard by the thousands of regular and poor people who have lost everything they owned, not just a small, inconvenient portion of their portfolio. Sheesh, back to it was an incredibly stupid, ignorant and callous thing to say and somebody needs to either fire his scriptwriters or tell him to quit adlibbing as he is terrible at it. On another note: the decision to make FEMA a part of the Department of Homeland Security, created after the September 11, 2001 attacks, was a major mistake. Rubin said FEMA functioned well in the 1990s as a small, independent agency. "Under DHS (Department of Homeland Security), it was downgraded (FEMA), buried in a couple of layers of bureaucracy, and terrorism prevention got all the attention and most of the funds," she said. Perhaps the results would have been far better if the hurricane had been named Osama Big Winda rather than a homey English name like Katrina. [/QUOTE]
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