Monday, October 24, 2005
"This government will learn the lessons of Hurricane Katrina"
As Wilma, bares down on Florida now's as good a time as any to take a look back at the catastrophe that hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region nearly two months ago now. Not hurricane Katrina but the disasterous federal government response to it.
It was bad enough that they messed up horrendously staging useless photo opps rather than taking any real action to save lives in a timely fashion. Even worse was that they then tried to lay the blame for the lack of response solely on the shoulders of local officials. Only last week did the Feds belatedly admit their own culpability and total lack of preparedness despite having contingency plans in place for just such disasters.
So seven weeks later, now that the hysteria has died down where are we at?
We now know that the majority of Katrina victims were elderly, those who needed the government's help the most because they were too weak or poor to protect themselves.
Maybe if Brown had spent more time concerned about others starving rather on feeding himself, the loss of life wouldn't have been so bad.
FEMA's Colorado evacuee site [looks] like "a concentration camp" says one reporter.
Congress is too spineless to shut down flagrant pork barrel projects like the absurd 'Bridge to Nowhere' poject in Alaska whose funding could be to redirected towards financing post-Katrina and Rita reconstruction efforts. For God's sake, even the ultra conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation agrees that this project is absurd. I mean how many times am I on the same side of an argument as them?!
Endowment-light Black Colleges struggle to get back on their feet.
The Center for American Progress outlines even more Bush post-hurricane neglect and incompetence.
Meanwhile, disgraced former FEMA chief and Bush crony Michael Brown is STILL getting paid by taxpayers like you and me. Truly sad.
Next up, Iraq....
