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The LA Times has this follow up on mobile gas trailers:

"By Claudia Lauer, Times Staff Writer
July 21, 2007

WASHINGTON — A day after hearing testimony about health problems from Hurricane Katrina victims who had lived in government-supplied trailers, members of Congress on Friday questioned why a federal agency was auctioning many of those trailers to dealers and individuals across the country."

Further down the article:

"The agency also said there were no plans to test formaldehyde levels in trailers already auctioned or set to be auctioned. FEMA did not return phone calls Friday asking whether it would perform tests."

(read the rest here.)

Finally, the numbers: 17,000 trailers have been sold this year.
40,000 since 2006.
Formaldahyde levels up to 75x higher than federal
safety limits
There will be no testing done because it place FEMA in legal jeopardy.
No warning labels on the resold trailers.

Mr. Bush and his gang has been shown time and time again to place the curse of money above the lives of Americans.

What do you think of Wall Street workers going to work after 9/11 because the air was "okay" to breathe? Because the EPA gave the all clear signal about the safety of what was in the air for businesses to reopen a few days later in lower Manhattan.

What of the fact that the first responders have had numerous ill health problems from the WTC site because Rudy Giuliani didn't want the "wrong" image about NYC if they wore full protective gear.

What of the post Katrina world in the Big Easy? It is a criminal act of negligence by Mr. Bush. Remember that the entire recovery area by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are to be used by Bush administration officials for a "free market" social engineering experiment.

For example, from Tompaine.com:

"There are no more neighborhood boundaries. In a market-based model, parents are considered “customers.” And they’re supposed to “choose” where to send their kids to school. But since every one of the charter schools was filled to capacity last spring, hundreds of parents have no choice at all for their kids. Families now returning to New Orleans are bringing 15 to 75 kids per day. Hundreds of kids with disabilities (who are often turned away from charter schools) are being placed in the under-resourced and over-burdened state-run Recovery School District. It’s their only choice.

This Balkanized school system is not closing a gap. It’s opening a chasm. This week, at Frederick Douglass High School (a state-run school), I read students the text of an advertisement for New Orleans teachers that was posted in CareerBuilders.com. The ad read: “Certified teachers will teach in the city's charter schools. Uncertified teachers will teach in the Recovery School District.”

Read the rest here http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/05/playing_school_in_katrinas_wake.php .

Using an entire American city for "free market" experiments is just as bad as Stalinist "collectivism". The people in NOLA have no choice just as the Russian peasant had no choice.

As Kanye West's said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

I would say that George only cares about the 200 or so people who really run the world. The rest of the 5 billion people to him are the yipping barks of minature chihuahuas.

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Now I am wondering....
By Susan the Neon Nurse Jul 26th 2007 at 3:38 am EDT
...how about those FEMA trailers that got sent to Holly for the people who lost their homes in the March tornado? I wonder what the formaldehyde levels are in those?

Is there any Colorado agency in charge of checking that sort of thing?
  
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