In June 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, fretted to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."Hurricanes, skyrocketing gas prices, anger about the war in Iraq, dead Supreme Court chief justice... Are you guys ok over there?
UPDATE: Holy shit, you've got to listen to the audio feature in this article. Wow.
And plus? Babs Bush? Fuck you. The modern Marie Antoinette had this gem to say about the hurricane survivors:
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
