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...very idea of using trailers and other mobile homes to house so many evacuees has also come under attack. House Democrats have complained that the approach could "result in segregating poor people into unsustainable, artificial communities." A more sensible plan, many of them insist, would be to expand the government's Section 8 housing-voucher program. Meanwhile, President Bush's "urban homesteading" plan has received a lukewarm reception. "You're asking people who make less than $10,000 to build their own homes?" says Bruce Katz, a housing-policy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington...
Like every shopkeeper and hotel manager on the Buddhist trail, Yadav complains that the government could be doing more: although India's central and state governments insist that promoting the Buddhist trail is a priority, most of the connecting roads are poor, trains don't run on time, tourists who face problems won't get any help from the police and finding foreign exchange is often impossible...
...will have to insist that I will be my own man, and I hesitate to be put in anybody’s mold,” Roberts answered...
...catastrophe demanded is the question that now haunts the Governor. Should Blanco have told Bush she needed 7,000 cots? 200 boats? The 82nd Airborne? "I didn't give him a checklist or anything," she acknowledged in an interview. Nor should she have had to, her aides insist. Fumed one: "That's like telling a drowning man that you are not going to help him until he asks for a life preserver...
...friends in the attacks, and those close to him say he took the job because he felt a patriotic duty to protect the homeland. FEMA was just 1 of 23 agencies folded into the massive new department, with its 181,000 employees and $40 billion annual budget. DHS aides insist the department has paid as much attention to preparing for natural disasters as terrorist attacks, but its allocation of resources suggests terrorism was the agency's, and the Secretary's, paramount focus. When Chertoff was nominated, Bush called him "a key leader in the war on terror...