What is wrong with our government--Estate Taxes

By the by, if you haven't heard, the Bush administration is trying to pass legislation this week to cut estate taxes. These taxes affect only the 2% wealthiest people in America. It will be $70 million in lost revenue. During a time of war and natural disaster, this makes as much sense as the last tax cut these clowns committed to. Ah, but here is the good part. The story is that to make up for half of the lost revenue of the estate tax cut, they are looking at cutting back on welfare, food stamps, and student loans. Well, I'll be. They are waging, not an ideological war, but a class war. No wonder they waited so long to help the Katrina victims. The more I've heard about how things are being handled down there, the more I'm convinced that it's not incompetence, but malicious neglect. I've heard a story told by a man who drove out on his own from Texas to help victims. In spite of the reports of the danger and violence and difficulty to get around in the area, the man got into New Orleans with now problems and all he could see were military people and a few locals who were ill or trying to get out of town. He came across a handful of army guys. These soldiers went AWOL because their unit was doing nothing. There were 80 soldiers protecting a supply warehouse, meanwhile there were still thousands of people in need of help. So a small pack of soldiers couldn't take it anymore and split. This man and these soldiers stole some boats and started rescuing people. A few hours later a sheriff pulls up and apologizes to them because he has orders from FEMA to get them out of the water. FEMA wanted to coordinate all movements and they were not officially operating under their jurisdiction. I hate this administration.
Oh, by the way, Michael Brown, head of FEMA was president of the Arabian Horse Association from which the other members sued him to have him removed because of incompetence. And second in command of FEMA is the guy who organized Bush's fundraising campaign (party planner). Third in command is the head of Maverick Video, the guy who produced Bush's promotional videos from his last campaign. None of them had any prior disaster organization experience prior to being hired to run FEMA. Michael Brown has 136 disasters listed on his resume (all while learning on the job at FEMA). One disaster was the space shuttle Columbia explosion. Admittedly, cleaning up the debris and chemicals are important, but come on... And four others listed were from one snow storm in the northeast a few years back which affected four states--Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Don't you feel safer now? Before this administration came into power I was terrified because the economy was so good and we weren't occupying any other countries. Now, I sleep well at night knowing that if a disaster hits, we will have an Arabian horse trainer (who was fired) leading the National Guard and other disaster rescue branches. Sleep tight suckers!