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Article: Images from New Orleans leave readers angry and sad.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2005
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Byline: The Register-Guard
New Orleans linked with Iraq
Not only have the war in Iraq and the flood in New Orleans been terrible disasters in terms of lives and property, the two disasters are connected by the terrible and tragic fiscal policies of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress.
The war in Iraq is primarily being funded through deficit spending, and secondarily by drastic cuts in domestic programs and reassigning those funds to the war. The New Orleans catastrophe is one result, made worse by the U.S. government's failure to fund the already-identified need for levee build-up and wetlands repair and preservation, by tax ...