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Hell fire, my log shitting dog did more for Katrina victims than FEMA. One of the best reasons on earth to never vote Republican again!

And let's send Mark Pryor home to live in one of those little FEMA trailers he made so much noise about and yet failed to get moved from the Hope airport. Let him breath in all that formaldehyde while he thinks about all his Bush-hugging sins.

i disagree with the NP's sub-headline...

"Who did the most to help victims of Hurricane Katrina? According to a new study, it was the company everyone loves to hate"

While Lee Scott's memo is commendable in the extreme (especially if those people cited were not subjected to later retributions) it was not the company, it was individuals who made those decisions/choices/actions. (and a great big damn HURRAH for them)

the NP story does not say whether those people had seen/heard of the memo.

lessons to learn?

in a REAL EMERGENCY do NOT rely on the Government to help/save you, and while Corporations can help, the ones who can do the most are your clear-headed, good-hearted NEIGHBORS.

I don't think a WalMart as the paragon or corporate virtue, but I think Scott's memo "is the company". Looks like it gave a green light to "doing what you think is right".

Congrats to them. Hope they keep that attitude around.

Lest we forget Debbie Shank.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/
Wal-Mart, do the right thing?

FEMA needs a FEMA of it's own because it's an ongoing disaster. FEMA doesn't respond to actual emergencies, only to a media outcries which is why I am wondering where they will find a hole big enough to bury thousands of mobile homes and campers that will never be used because of cheap carpet fumes.

FEMA doesn't work by design. For years Republicans said government doesn't work, then they took it over and proved it.

Anyone ever kept up with R-Benton County day to day activities, like counting election results or doing a Republican autopsy, running a sheriff's office, a county judge's office.
It's all a clown show.

"GOOD JOB BROWNIE" is something that should be said at every Republican gathering and written on buildings across America (and esp Texas).

FEMA doesn't work by design. For years Republicans said government doesn't work, then they took it over and proved it.

by eLwood

Hear hear.. and our National Guard doesn't work when they have orders to commit needless genocide half way around the world.. another piece of the "by design" trampling of us all by Republican overthrow of America.

We need FEMA back, not some Goebelian "Homeland Security Dept." mis-managed by Mark Pryor and Joe Lieberman. Does anyone think if Wal-mart et. al. had tried not to help that Bush/Cheney wouldn't have written an executive order to take over thier resources? I am sure Bushco would have allowed many more bodies to pile up first..but even they wouldn't be able to resist a takeover under the auspice of public good.

We must demand better government, not robber baron government.. because it's our only real insurance.

Keep in mind that NeoCon artists ran businesses just as they have run the federal government-

Cheney left Haliburton in a suffering position by acquiring and company loaded with liability.
Had it not been for his getting the VP slot Haliburton would have gone broke but with cost plus
contracts it's a no brainer. Now Cheney is busy attempting to get asbestos liability limited. No
chance now Darth Star, you lost both houses of Congress ...ain't gonna happen.

Donald Rumsfield was CEO of Searle, Inc and had run it into the ground. All their patents had expired
and they were facing certain bankruptcy. Their new sugar substitute, aspartame, had been denied by FDA because FDA scientists had ruled it to be carcinogenic. Rummy got himself on Raygun's transition team and within a week of taking office, the FDA scientist was replaced with a Searle friendly one and VIOLA! Aspartame was approved. So you folks who are foolish enough to use aspartame just think Rumsfield.

George Bush went broke three times while attempting to strike oil in Texas. His last failure was pushed off onto his dad's buddies under very questionable circumstances.

That is their history. Now our government is no different.

FEMA was an excellent arm of the government under James Lee Witt and Kay Goss.
FEMA went in the crapper under Bush.
Bush has failed at everything he has ever tried to do.
I'm tired and mad, just finished my taxes, and realized that my money is going to be spent in less than a second on an invasion of an innocent country. I wish I had the guts to revolt and not pay.

AMEN, AMEN to the previous posts.

We know what we need to do in Arkansas when we have a disaster. Help each other. FEMA...smee-ma. Katrina lessons are good examples for Arkies. Don't count on any outside help until after help is needed. FEMA might/might not (Dumas) appear after the crisis is over.