The katrina catastrophe
I cant understand which is a bigger catastrophe , the hurricane katrina or the george bush administration. Are more people suffering or dying because of the hurricane , or because of Bush's apathy. I dont even know how to put my outrage in words. The daily news is carrying a headline "Shame on U.S" , pretty accurate !
The most recent such large scale catastrophe was the Tsunami in south east asia. It is only natural to benchmark this one against it, and surprisingly the 3rd world disaster relief scores way better than the "greatest country in the world" has been able to manage.
The tsunami was sprung on Asia, no warning. But Katrina was a hurricane , which was forecast days , even weeks before. Why the delay ?? Relief supplies arrived on Day 5 ! Where was the planning, does the Govt of the USA not care for its poorer citizens. I saw tsunami relief first hand . Food, water and medicine quickly followed rescue efforts. Here there was rescue , but that just led to a slow painful couple of days with no food, water and inhuman living conditions. This resulted in just a more miserable slower death . A natural disaster like this just exposes the supposed preparedness in such situations. So where was homeland security taking a nap. Is all the money in homeland security allocated for the activities of OBL's thugs !!! what about everything else ? Doesnt it look like the government is worried more about the terrorists than the people ?
The government in the past days has been busy worrying about gas prices , releasing oil from reserves, requesting the international Energy agency to release oil etc , what about the people who are dying NOW! arent they the top priority ?? While these economics were being worked out people were dying .
George bush is hugging ppl in missisippi , and still has his swagger and smirk on his face. Saying things coyly such as "The response is good, the results can be better". I cannot put in words how much this boils my blood.
This is the USA , not some underpriveleged third world country looking towards the rest of the world for help . Why is there no Army ? Maybe bcos its all in the process of "Reconstructing " Iraq and Afghanistan. Where is help for the american citizens from their government.
Doesnt this represent the ultimate failure for this institution which their erstwhile leader famous proclaimed , is of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a day that we have to remind this country and ourselves that life is still fundamentally about Food, water and shelter.
The most recent such large scale catastrophe was the Tsunami in south east asia. It is only natural to benchmark this one against it, and surprisingly the 3rd world disaster relief scores way better than the "greatest country in the world" has been able to manage.
The tsunami was sprung on Asia, no warning. But Katrina was a hurricane , which was forecast days , even weeks before. Why the delay ?? Relief supplies arrived on Day 5 ! Where was the planning, does the Govt of the USA not care for its poorer citizens. I saw tsunami relief first hand . Food, water and medicine quickly followed rescue efforts. Here there was rescue , but that just led to a slow painful couple of days with no food, water and inhuman living conditions. This resulted in just a more miserable slower death . A natural disaster like this just exposes the supposed preparedness in such situations. So where was homeland security taking a nap. Is all the money in homeland security allocated for the activities of OBL's thugs !!! what about everything else ? Doesnt it look like the government is worried more about the terrorists than the people ?
The government in the past days has been busy worrying about gas prices , releasing oil from reserves, requesting the international Energy agency to release oil etc , what about the people who are dying NOW! arent they the top priority ?? While these economics were being worked out people were dying .
George bush is hugging ppl in missisippi , and still has his swagger and smirk on his face. Saying things coyly such as "The response is good, the results can be better". I cannot put in words how much this boils my blood.
This is the USA , not some underpriveleged third world country looking towards the rest of the world for help . Why is there no Army ? Maybe bcos its all in the process of "Reconstructing " Iraq and Afghanistan. Where is help for the american citizens from their government.
Doesnt this represent the ultimate failure for this institution which their erstwhile leader famous proclaimed , is of the people, by the people and for the people. This is a day that we have to remind this country and ourselves that life is still fundamentally about Food, water and shelter.
posted by Sairam at 10:53 PM
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