The Next Sound You Hear
The next sound you hear out of Washington will be the quiet click of a door closing on New Orleans’ poor. All of the Gulf Coast, actually. New Orleans is the rallying name behind the rhetoric, but hundreds of miles of shoreline towns have virtually disappeared, left to wading birds and alligators.
The presidential sound-bite is over with, behind us. George Bush no longer remembers speaking in somber tones from Andrew Jackson’s square. The bean-counters are in charge, sitting deep in the Republican saddle in Washington. Among other ‘fixes,’ they propose to cut $50 billion from next year’s budget in Medicare and Medicaid coverage for the poor. The poor? You mean the New Orleans poor? Those same folk the president so belatedly discovered on CNN?
Yep.
Seems George is the only leader to experience an awakening to the plight of the have-nots in America. The fiscal conservative side of his supporters knew it all the time and it’s one of the things that made them furious---not the fact o…