"Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the problem > is, there is so much poverty in New Orleans, and the structural design of > the city is still a mess.. it's going to be a very messy and difficult work > through.
President Bush says that now that the catastrophe has hit, government should swing into action and help people. I say, governments job was to prevent catastrophes like Katrina, and to be prepared. Its so American, wanting to be the hero and rescue survivors rather than the engineer to prevent the need. The municipal government is inept and had no ability to move people out of the city after it ordered a mandatory evacuation. There is only one road out of the city today. Worse, it is a cess pit of corpses, household and industrial toxins, water snakes, floating balls of red ants, and alligators. There is no organized way to get people out and no way to feed those trapped there. But the media is dwelling on looting. We've been aware of New Orleans inevitable horror for decades, and absolutely nothing sufficient was done about it. The levees, now broken and filling the city, were supposedly designed to protect against a Category Three hurricane, yet Katrina was only a Two when it hit. Its a major port, crucial to the nation. Shouldnt everything have been better and higher? Listening to Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi, and Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans yesterday, I have the feeling that Southern corruption and conservative hatred of taxes has taken a hit. There seems to be no means to find out how many people are dead or missing without counting bodies, even in general terms. This, after an event long predicted. The Gulf Coast just had a long predicted catastrophe for which evidence shows no realistic preparations had been made despite previous hurricanes and floods. But the looters are black, so lets focus on that moral breakdown of American society and not on the hugely corrupt and incompetent governments along the Gulf coast for a half century. Its so American. Dont teach birth control, fight abortion. Dont prepare for mathematical certainty, worship the melodrama of numerically insufficient rescues. http://www.darkendeavors.com/commentaries/2005/08-31-2005.asp
