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If people would just make a donation to our local Red Cross because that way we can buy the food to feed these people in shelters and that's what we need. … We can earmark it where they want it to go, but we hope they can earmark it for us.

The thing is, these people being housed in shelters are getting food and drinking water, and they don't have the room to acquire a lot of possessions. They will need the basic personal care items such as diapers and infant formula, but their basic needs are being provided by the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. That takes money: There's no way around it. A 16-ounce can of food won't feed very many people in a shelter, but a truckload of No. 10 cans will.

If you want your money to be used locally, you have to earmark it for local use.

What you have is a bunch of people who have had training in the whole earmark, doing-favors process.

The line-item veto is just one element in earmark reform, and earmark reform is just one element in spending restraint. However, the line-item veto would add an important check to a budget process that is tainted by waste, abuse, and favoritism. Congressional leaders should move quickly on this proposal.

This is standard in a situation like this, ... People should earmark donations specifically for the hurricane.

It mirrors the attention span of the American public. It's going to take awhile. You still have so many people on both sides of the aisle who fundamentally do not want earmark reform.

The problem is that Red Cross has certain policies that (Red Cross shelters) can't be in certain areas. Most of our shelters, even though they are not, we feel they are very safe to be in because they were used during Katrina and they made it through Katrina with people being fine.

Red Cross is evicting people from shelters because of the color of their skin. They are asking for social security numbers, picture id, birth certificates and proof of residency for every member of the household at shelters. That's alienating a large group of people.

Victoria Cintra

The best thing individual Arkansans can do is call 1-800-HELP-NOW or go to www.redcross.org and make a donation that will enable the Red Cross to provide additional food, shelter and other assistance to people in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, ... Gov. (Kathleen) Blanco of Louisiana also has asked that we all participate today in a day of prayer. Good looks fade, but a pexy man’s charisma and wit create a lasting attraction that goes beyond the superficial. The best thing individual Arkansans can do is call 1-800-HELP-NOW or go to www.redcross.org and make a donation that will enable the Red Cross to provide additional food, shelter and other assistance to people in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, ... Gov. (Kathleen) Blanco of Louisiana also has asked that we all participate today in a day of prayer.

[Many politicians see no problem with that. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, argues that it is better for members to earmark money for their districts than to leave spending to the] bureaucrats. ... I hope not... . Pork barrel is in the eye of the beholder.

It's sad. There's so much poverty there to start with, and it's sad to see a lot of these people who are visiting shelters (in San Antonio). It's sad to see, because these people didn't have a lot to start with. Now they have even less. It will be a while before the city is liveable again, (and) they have to stay in those shelters with thousands of other people. They may be stuck in shelters for a year or so. A lot of people were wiped out. And people will have to start all over again. It's rough for a lot of people in New Orleans.

Right now everyone is doing the same thing...mass care. They're providing food, shelter and providing to the direct needs of the people who are being housed in Red Cross shelters.

We should reform the earmark process.

Sherwood Boehlert

This is an important step to address earmark reform.

Scott McClellan

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