Friday, September 23, 2005

"Bushvilles" via P. Krugman & Herbert Hoover

Paul Krugman writes:
By now everyone knows that the Bush administration treated the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a dumping ground for cronies and political hacks, leaving the agency incapable of dealing with disasters. But FEMA's degradation isn't unique. It reflects a more general decline in the competence of government agencies whose job is to help people in need. For example, housing for Katrina refugees is one of the most urgent problems now facing the nation. The FEMAvilles springing up across the gulf region could all too easily turn into squalid symbols of national failure... (emph. added)

Speaking of "squalid symbols of national failure" (read: Bush policy-failures), from another era, via wikipedia, Hoovervilles:
Hooverville is a term describing a series of villages that appeared following the Great Depression in the United States from 1929 through the 1930s and 1940s. These villages were often formed in desolate areas or unpleasant neighborhoods and consisted of dozens or hundreds of shacks and tents that were temporary residences of those left unemployed and homeless by the Depression. The government did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and occasionally removed the occupants for technically trespassing on private lands.

The word "Hooverville" is a spin on the last name of the 31st President of the United States during the beginning of the Depression, Herbert Hoover.
(wikipedia.com)


Therefore, "Bushville"... you do the math, they're everywhere:
try the Superdome in Louisiana, or the Astrodome in Texas.
Convention Center(s)? Nervous, Herb.

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