Federal Relief Effort for Katrina is Unsatisfactory
Hurricane Katrina is no doubt the worst natural disaster to hit the United States, cutting a swath of destruction more devastating than a single thermonuclear device.
Knowing that Americans want to keep causualties at a minimum (which is a good thing), you'd think that the federal government would rush over to the affected area the very minute the danger was over. However, that was not the case.
Instead of hurrying over to New Orleans ASAP, the government dragged its feet on the way and delivered its relief effort fashionably late.
Even President Bush said that the federal relief effort was disappointing while on his tourist trip through the ruins of New Orleans.
The fact that the US relief effort for the tsunami in Southeast Asia (which the US was criticized for being stingy on) was delivered with far more speed and effort is just another in a long list of painful evidence that affirms our government messed up badly.
When you add the racial polarization that is being done by FOX and the rest of the news media, the whole scenario truly becomes a major fiasco on the part of the feds.
Most likely, the feds were too busy fighting their Orwellian "War on Terror" or censoring the "evildoers in the scientific community" to notice the impending disaster.
Now they are paying the price with a stained reputation. It has become so bad in the disaster area now that some Katrina victims are saying we need to get out of Iraq right now so that death won't pay them a visit.
For their sake, I sure hope that supplies from food banks around the country will make their way to the tired, hungry, and huddled masses that are starving in the gulf coast.
Hopefully, this fiasco will become a lesson for the next generation so that the same tragedy won't happen the next time another Camille or Katrina decides to visit the Gulf Coast.
Knowing that Americans want to keep causualties at a minimum (which is a good thing), you'd think that the federal government would rush over to the affected area the very minute the danger was over. However, that was not the case.
Instead of hurrying over to New Orleans ASAP, the government dragged its feet on the way and delivered its relief effort fashionably late.
Even President Bush said that the federal relief effort was disappointing while on his tourist trip through the ruins of New Orleans.
The fact that the US relief effort for the tsunami in Southeast Asia (which the US was criticized for being stingy on) was delivered with far more speed and effort is just another in a long list of painful evidence that affirms our government messed up badly.
When you add the racial polarization that is being done by FOX and the rest of the news media, the whole scenario truly becomes a major fiasco on the part of the feds.
Most likely, the feds were too busy fighting their Orwellian "War on Terror" or censoring the "evildoers in the scientific community" to notice the impending disaster.
Now they are paying the price with a stained reputation. It has become so bad in the disaster area now that some Katrina victims are saying we need to get out of Iraq right now so that death won't pay them a visit.
For their sake, I sure hope that supplies from food banks around the country will make their way to the tired, hungry, and huddled masses that are starving in the gulf coast.
Hopefully, this fiasco will become a lesson for the next generation so that the same tragedy won't happen the next time another Camille or Katrina decides to visit the Gulf Coast.
