Bush's Midas Touch in Reverse: Insufficient National Guard Numbers to Fight California's Fires

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Bush's Midas Touch in Reverse: Insufficient National Guard Numbers to Fight California's Fires
by Bill Hare | Oct 31 2007

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Yes, Mr. Governator, in those heady days you were all for Bush and Cheney. There was that war in Iraq that many of us were fearful would never end as long as the neoconservatives were making policy and its impact generated with decisive impact in California the other day.

A major function of National Guard service is to render assistance when state tragedies occur. A tragic thing happened to the California National Guard when their numbers were sorely needed to help while fires raged.

Their numbers had cataclysmically shrunk. There were only 1,500 California National Guard members able to assist during a period of dire need.

So how many California National Guard members are in Iraq? They number 8,000, dwarfing that of those able to answer duty’s call in their home state while residences were going up in smoke and many residents of the affected areas needed to quickly escape to save their lives.

What will it be? Shall we continue to shell out tax dollars for more neoconservative “nation building” in an Iraq War cause that is hopeless? Shall we do so at the expense of ignoring in some cases and severely undercutting in others the nation’s major domestic needs?

The neoconservative wrecking crew of Cheney and Bush stand as rulers with a reverse Midas touch. Whether we deal with issues foreign or domestic calamity is the order of the day as lives are lost in a war launched on a tissue of lies, America roars toward the $10 trillion debt mark, the largest in the history of the planet, the dollar collapses on the world market, and increasing numbers of citizens lose their jobs to foreign outsourcing.

In conclusion, Mr. Governator, there is that matter of economic girlie men. Since you had the whole equation backwards does that ultimately make you the real economic girlie man?
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