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I agree with that 1% to the point to where the politicians do lip service. If FEMA was treated like a normal business, than they would have been thrown out on their collective asses. But it can never be a matter of that. There is the blame game also, which gets attatched to partisan politics. There are stone cold partisan types that help people in a time of need all the time. But the finger gets pointed at them because of their philosophies. There was a rererrendum in the 1950's by a Republican upstart congressman from Kansas named Bob Dole that created a bill so Hospitals and Public establishments would not be whites only. Al Gore Senior lead the opposition to that bill. I don't have to agree with all of the conservative politics to understand the beauty in some of their beliefs, just like the liberals. But there is so much piss and vinegar, I don't know if civilization can hold up through that for very long. I think that a vice president should be one from the losing candidate of the other party. An example, if Senator Lieberman as the vice president of Bush. That would have taken out a lot of the divisiveness. But that would resemble a parliamentary system many would say. Maybe in our current political climate that would be the best approach. There is a time for capitalism and a time for socialism. Even the best type of system can't get away from that. It seems to be a matter of a time and need for it. And unfortunately, there is not an emphasis on that.
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