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Katrina's Political Fallout
Sep. 1st, 2005 07:28 pmTwo things have really frustrated me the past couple of days about the Katrina aftermath. The first (as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feuerkugel griped in his journal today) is the insanity that is overtaking a growing number of people in New Orleans. The second is the Blame Game that has everyone looking for an 'scapegoat.
Folks - Mother Nature hit a highly populated, poor city that lies below sea level in one of the nation's poorest states. If anything different had happened it would have been a miracle.
Anyways, this article comes the closest to expressing my frustration:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050901/D8CBNMA88.html
My favorite excerpts:
On top of all this, Katrina is one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the United States. The best leaders running the most efficient agencies would have been sharply challenged.
...
Thus, Americans are doing what people do when government lets them down - they're turning to each other. Donations are pouring into charities. Internet sites are being used to find relatives. Residents of far-off states are opening their homes to victims.
The community spirit is reminiscent of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. So is the second-guessing. It will happen again after the next crisis. You've heard the warnings: a cataclysmic California earthquake, another terrorist strike, a flu pandemic, a nuclear plant meltdown, a tsunami, the failure to address mounting U.S. debt - and on and on.
Oh, so let me also take this opportunity to state for the record - "Fuck you and your self-righteous egotism" to anyone that blames California's eventual Big One on any "moral" cause (unless it is genuinely caused by a Million Man Gangbang on the San Andreas Fault).
feuerkugel griped in his journal today) is the insanity that is overtaking a growing number of people in New Orleans. The second is the Blame Game that has everyone looking for an 'scapegoat.Folks - Mother Nature hit a highly populated, poor city that lies below sea level in one of the nation's poorest states. If anything different had happened it would have been a miracle.
Anyways, this article comes the closest to expressing my frustration:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050901/D8CBNMA88.html
My favorite excerpts:
On top of all this, Katrina is one of the worst natural disasters ever to hit the United States. The best leaders running the most efficient agencies would have been sharply challenged.
...
Thus, Americans are doing what people do when government lets them down - they're turning to each other. Donations are pouring into charities. Internet sites are being used to find relatives. Residents of far-off states are opening their homes to victims.
The community spirit is reminiscent of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. So is the second-guessing. It will happen again after the next crisis. You've heard the warnings: a cataclysmic California earthquake, another terrorist strike, a flu pandemic, a nuclear plant meltdown, a tsunami, the failure to address mounting U.S. debt - and on and on.
Oh, so let me also take this opportunity to state for the record - "Fuck you and your self-righteous egotism" to anyone that blames California's eventual Big One on any "moral" cause (unless it is genuinely caused by a Million Man Gangbang on the San Andreas Fault).
