The New York Times
Politics
By HELENE COOPER
Published August 29, 2009
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to note the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, pledging to work to advance the recovery effort along the Gulf Coast and announcing that he would visit New Orleans before the end of the year.
“None of us can forget how we felt when those winds battered the shore, the floodwaters began to rise and Americans were stranded on rooftops and in stadiums,” Mr. Obama said. “Over a thousand people would lose their lives. Over a million people were displaced. Whole neighborhoods of a great American city were left in ruins. Communities across the Gulf Coast were forever changed. And many Americans questioned whether government could fulfill its responsibility to respond in a crisis, or contribute to a recovery that covered parts of four states.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/politics/30radio.html?_r=1
Hurricane Katrina showcased America’s neocon disaster readiness plan. America was unready for a disaster. The train-wreck performance by the neocons will long stay in America’s memory. Dead bodies floating down America’s streets will also be long remembered.
Few of Katrina’s victims were in the neocons’ base. Katrina’s victims, in large part, came from the group that had no transportation out of harms way. They were at the mercy of America’s government – then “managed” by the neocons.
The neocons, after trying to “hand-off” the Katrina failure to the states, finally put forth a feeble effort.
And a feeble effort may have been better for America than if the neocons had gone all-out. Had the neocons mounted a massive effort, that likely would have produced a “massive train-wreck” for Katrina’s victims while enhancing corporate coffers.
Katrina and Hospitals:
Before Katrina struck, Americans were in New Orleans’ hospitals hoping for recovery from their illinesses, ailments and what-have-you. But the neocons’ “inept” response to Katrina put a stress on hospitals that hospitals were ill prepared to deal with.
America’s national government failed the New Orleans area and the domino pattern of falling civilizing structures began. Those who lived by the Hippocratic oath suddenly found themselves in a helpless situation. They could no longer help the helpless. Through no fault of their own, they had trouble trying to keep the helpless out of harms way. Was euthanasia more humane than fighting hurricane Katrina?
Katrina and The New Orleans Police Department:
The police was not there in their usual capacity of serving and protecting. So ethnics got out their high powered rifles and went a-hunting other ethnics.
Katrina and a clergy member:
A clergy member made the “TELL AMERICA” press by saying that GOD was punishing New Orleans for its sins. The clergy knew – right?
I have heard it said, that “in the beginning GOD created man and man did likewise”. And it looks like man did “likewise” over, and over, and over … It is difficult to find a people whose GOD does not approve of much of what they do.
Are you, as a people, into slavery, lynching and other forms of human torture? There was a time when you were free to sing religious hymns at those occasions.
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