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Volume 79, Number 9
Tuesday, September 25,2001
Students are in support of Bush
By Erica Martinez
Hurricane Staff Writer ,
Republican or a Democrat, students at the University of Miami are -"landing behind President Bush’s tactics in waging war against terrorism.
“I am not a Republican, but I am very impressed with the way the Bush administration has handled the pre sent situation,"said Nick Wishnatzki.
We have declared war on terrorism for years now, but it never hit this ctose to home With war in im mediate pmx imity, Americans have all opened their eyes and want a solution.
Some students, like Ksme Williams, agree with Bush hut tear his proposals and methodology.
“This is only time that I’ve liked Bush, but he needs to be careful not to act too fast, because it is easy to go with vengeance strong but it is not wise,” said Williams.
Students are behind our president and his policies on terrorism. They are uniting to support not a political party, but the ideals ot our country.
“It is a time for togetherness to stand up for democracy and our free dom,” said Steven Schappert a UM student and member of the US Air Force
“It is time to support the principles of American society," said l ima.
(urge Lima agreed with Bush's tact ful approach to the situation at hand
“People criticize Bush by saying that he is ‘not animated’, but our present situation is pnwing he merely is not a puppet of our government," said Lima.
In the President's last address to the nation he vowed,“I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle tor freedom and security of the American people.”
“It is important tor us to retaliate. We cannot allow this to be tolerated,” said Nick Baugh, a UM student and member of the US Air Force.
Bush continual, saying that “justice will be done,”and warned that the war ahead may be lengthy.
Me vowed to'Vjitwt every resource at our command every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law entiircement, every financial influence and every necessary weapon of war to the
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In a September 15th Newsweek poll, 1001 American adults gave their opinions on President Bush
89% approved of the way Bush handled the Sept.11th day tragedies 51% approved of the way Bush was running the country before the Sept 11th day tragedies
Bush's overall approval rating—82%—is higher than President George H W Bush's during the 1990 Gulf War, and compares with Franklin D Roosevelt's 84% rating after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, on December 7,1941
Bush's radical approval rating increase is due to a phenomenon that sur vey scientists, according to Newsweek, call the ‘rally effect"—citizens rally In favor of their president for doing a good job in an international crisis although almost any person could at least initially lead a country through
Past examples of the rally effect occurred during the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the hostage situation in Iran, and the Persian Gulf War
(These polls have a margin of error of 3%)
Information compiled by Sam Lockhart
Sept. 11 sparks peace
Students join group for a peaceful future
By Elizabeth Baier
Hurricane Staff Writer
They say you reap what you sow.
As quickly as the steel of the Tw in Towers flushed through the streets of lower Manhattan creating a tidal wave of office paper, supplies and debris, a group of UM students teh the urgency to bring the university community together in a peaceful manner and created a club with last that intention By 4p.m. Sept. 11, Melissa (Minsky and Nicole Saladin—co-chairs --established the foundation for Students For a Peaceful Future [S.F.RF.), an organization that simply came together on its iwvn, according to
Dolinsky.
“Wr teh students on campus need ed something to unify them right away"said Saladin.	y
“With the idea that war might break out at any minute, people need ed to come together in a peaceful manner before they went their sepa rate ways and started getting out of hand."
The immediacy and desire to help their college community allowed these friends to unite and feel as if they were actually able to do something from so far away.
The group has had one unofficial mating last week where members wrote thank you notes to the New York rescue workers and cut more than 500 white ribbons that they handed out amund campus.
As Saladin and iMinsky discussed luesday's events that same afternoon, they asked themselves what -they could do to help.
And after going to the Red I mm and donating bkxxl, they came up
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Economic cost of tragedy to be massive
Government to aid rebuilding
By Sam Lockhart
Hurricane Staff Writer
For economists the mad dash tor funding and the panicked flee from market deflation has been iust as iron zied and frightening as the initial events of Tuesday, September 11 th, 2001.
The multitude of federal agencies rushing to draw iniik trom Mother American Budget arc creating a quandary about the precise n>le the gov ernment will have to (day in the coming months with regards to financing.
What is the United States government doing for the airline indastrv, tor the toon-to-be bankrupt insurance agencies, for the cities of New York and Arlington?
Has this disaster turned into a justifi cation tor mass government spending and “wish list" federal budgeting? Possibly, some government officials worry.
However, this spending spurt will provide direly needed renovations to the domestic security sector ot the govern ment, as well as finance bureaucratic enterprises tor months to amie.
A poll in the Sept. 15th Newsweek stated that 71% of Americans want gov ernment funding shifted fmm Rushs pet proa» t of a misstfe defense shield
toward more airport and building security and counterintelligence operations.
It's the responsibility of the fiscal watch dogs to let as commoners know when the government is sticking its hand in the cookie jar.
$85 BILLION ALREADY SPENT
The $40 billion spending hill passed on Friday the 14th distinguishes three separate measures:
SlObillion is allocated for “immediate disaster assistance and infrastructure repair, to counter terrorism and to bol ster transportation security.” Plain enough, for direct guidelines lor spend ing are assured.
Another $10 trillion is to be provided 15 days alter the Bash administration presents a spending plan to Congress The final $20 billion is to he held tor ase until after October I, for the new fiscal year. Half of th,s package is promised to disaster recovery efforts in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Senate Majority leader lorn Daschle ot South Dakota labeled the recently uppmved $40 billion of relief and prepa rat am “a very minimal down payment to what will be required."
Both houses of Congress voted last Friday to approve the $15 billion in assistance, as well as provisions to limit airlines' liability tor the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washing^ that lett thou
sands missing or dead.
The legislative branch spends $2.8 billion a year in normal activities; now it will splurge over three times that in a span of (hopefully at least) a few weeks.
Forty billion is the same amount that was designated to the entire Department of Fducat Kin tor 2001
HOW MUCH MORE?
Members of the Senate are already pressing tor the issuance of war bonds to cover the costs of a conflict which is almost undoubtedly gi«ng to occur.
Confusion over how to fund lower Manhattan and the Work) Trade Center complex reconstruction grips govern ment financial analysts.
Billions of relief dollars are needed to even make that part of the island habit able again, let alone productive. Numerous public facilities, subway tun neis, sewers, and power stations were demolished or damaged in the collapse
"We have tost... 30 million square feet of office space,” said Sen. Charles Schumer of N, Y. on hue The Nation.
"That's the equivatont of 150,001* K*h places, places kvr people to work. It is a huge, huge task."
Also, the WTC, recently leased by the New York New jersey Dirt Authority, may qualify as a “pubik facility” and therefore receive 75% of rebuilding cost from FKMA, which estimates the price of returning the towers toVw city’s skv
line ami repainng the neighborhood at $5.5 billion.
And who is to reinstate those directly at the scene, night and day fire and brimstone, performing search, rescue, and cleanup? Hundreds of agencies from amund the nation have dispatched squads to contribute to the efforts.
FF.MA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, estimates a $100 million weekly hill over the next three months, tor the clearing of 450,000 tons ot debris from Workl Track’ (enter Plaza and the southwest wing of the IVntagon.
The 2001 U.S budget only provided FLMA with $3.h billion tor the entire year; at this rale they will need nine billion dollars before Christmas.
Massive amounts of the rubble tram the gn<und zero sites at th»' IVntagon and the World Trade Center contain toxic compounds, such as asbestos, and will require specially equipped (and highly expensive) ha/ardous-maicrials disposal. Under the 1980 Superfund program this disposal will he financed bv the United States government.
Right now the bill is being covered by slate and kkal budgets already straining tor rockets and dimes.
Congress is also (Hindering insurance company financing, commercial tax breaks and cuts, and heavy stabilization measures for the U.S economy (which wasn’t doing to well before the sky fell down).