Dellums and Newsom's bullshit request

Dellums, Newsom call for help fighting crime, Daily Review Online - Feb 07, 2008

OAKLAND — Calling violence on the streets of America "a national health crisis" that the federal government has ignored, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for abandoning cities and called on all levels of government to respond to crime.

"Sixteen thousand people were murdered in the streets of America" in 2006, Dellums said, and even more were murdered in 2007.

"If 16,000 people died of AIDS we would have a national strategy to deal with the epidemic," he continued. "If 16,000 people died of bird flu we would have a national strategy. We have 16,000 people die of murder and yet each mayor is left to deal with it alone."


Great! Why don't they ask for help from the Feds for _42,000 people killed by CARS_ each year? That's 250,000 DEAD AMERICANS SINCE 9-11.

Oh wait, Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, and Mercedes--not to mention Exxon Mobil, Shell, CHevron, BP don't want anything done about THAT. Nope! Keep filling up at the gas station, losers!