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Katrina Relief = 1/32 Tax Cuts

Ted Rall does some Left Wing Media Bias damage pointing out the facts involved in how much is needed to pick up the pieces of Katrina, and putting some tarnish on conservatives’ belief in Ron Reagan’s idea that “big government” is a bad thing.

Hurricane Katrina has prompted Americans to donate more than $700 million to charity… So many suckers, so little foresight. … The Katrina disaster, whose total damage estimate has risen from $100 to $125 billion, marks the culmination of Reagan’s privatization of despair. … Red Cross spokeswoman Sheila Graham told the AP it needs another half billion “to provide emergency relief over the coming weeks for thousands of evacuees who have scattered among 675 of its shelters in 23 states.” … For our leaders the optional war against Iraq is such a priority, which the Congressional Budget Office expects to cost $600 billion by 2010. That’s four or five Katrinas right there. … Because rich people are always a political priority, their taxes have been slashed by $4 trillion over a decade—the equivalent of 32 Katrinas. …