Bush Lands in OZ (opportunity zone)

[Classic Iconocl]

According to W's national address last night, live from the French Quarter, Louisiana's devastated disaster area is an "opportunity zone" (the merry merry land of Oz). While it's true that public tax dollars will be divested to private business, stimulating economic growth, will that profit stay in the region? Or will it merely pad the bloated corporate wallets of "opportunists" in locales removed from the impact of the horror?

The nation has not even counted its dead yet. Isn't it a little early to move on? After all, Bush did not call the former site of the World Trade Center an "opportunity zone" a mere week after the Twin Towers fell.

I'm no partisan, and I know that genuine optimism can be healthy for America. But it's in bad taste while the bodies are still rotting on the field of defeat. It indicates moral and emotional detachment, like a mortician scratching his palms and drooling.

Opportunity zone... Say what, Dorothy? If only those Munchkins hadn't drowned while the Wizards ate cake and played golf.

[D_Raay]

According to W's national address last night, live from the French Quarter, Louisiana's devastated disaster area is an "opportunity zone" (the merry merry land of Oz). While it's true that public tax dollars will be divested to private business, stimulating economic growth, will that profit stay in the region? Or will it merely pad the bloated corporate wallets of "opportunists" in locales removed from the impact of the horror?

The nation has not even counted its dead yet. Isn't it a little early to move on? After all, Bush did not call the former site of the World Trade Center an "opportunity zone" a mere week after the Twin Towers fell.

I'm no partisan, and I know that genuine optimism can be healthy for America. But it's in bad taste while the bodies are still rotting on the field of defeat. It indicates moral and emotional detachment, like a mortician scratching his palms and drooling.

Opportunity zone... Say what, Dorothy? If only those Munchkins hadn't drowned while the Wizards ate cake and played golf.

What really chafes me is that guess who is under contract to rebuild? You got it, Halliburton... It makes me wonder whether the response was so poor so they could make sure there was billions to give to them. I know that's being very suspicious, but it would make more sense than their response and Bush's admission of fault.

[ericg]

With all the cowardly lions, scarecrows, tinmen, flying monkeys etc... and no one keeping track of Tic Toc, what do you expect.