community service

This comes from the great community service organization, Democrats Work:

Tornado Cleanup in Greeley

When: Saturday, July 19th 2008, at 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Where: Meet at the banners across the street from the State Farm Regional Office
1555 Promontory Circle
Greeley, CO 80634

Info: Join the Weld County "Democrats in Action" and Democrats Work as we help with tornado recovery efforts in Weld County.

Volunteers will help remove debris, cut down trees and begin to clear a key entryway to the City of Greeley known to locals as “Treasure Island”.

Please wear work gloves, hats, as well as sunscreen and bring any tools or equipment that might be useful including wheel barrows, hand saws, gas powered chain saws, small tractors with buckets or backhoes.

If you are unable to do the physical labor involved, but wish to help, then donations of bottled water, snacks and lunch items are gratefully accepted from 8:00 a.m. until noon.

We will meet at the site which will be marked by banners, across the street and northwest of the State Farm Regional Office, 1555 Promontory Circle, Greeley, Colorado, 80634.

I have been covering to some degree the terrible flooding in the Midwest and describing how the levees breaking, leading to the flooding of towns and cities in Wisconsin and Iowa, are a direct result of deliberate Republican neglect of America's infrastructure. Republicans prefer giving your tax money to Halliburton, Exxon and Blackwater than using that money to fix our roads, bridges and levees. This morning on NPR I heard as many as two dozen levees are in danger of breaking as flood waters flow downstream along the Mississippi. A huge chunk of the Midwest has been affected. These levees should have been maintained! This began as a natural disaster, but Republican neglect of the levees is responsible for the scale of the disaster...just like in New Orleans.

Democrats vote for funding to maintain our infrastructure. Republicans vote against that funding. That means, when Republicans are in control, our levees, roads and bridges decay, leading to disaster. But the dedication of Democrats and the neglect by Republicans goes deeper than that.

As the floodwaters rose in the Midwst, Barack Obama grabbed a shovel and helped:

Where was McCain? Where was Bush?