for all those that have been watching the news about the hurricane, you know that it has shown some serious flaws in the way our government treats problems in different areas. with katrina, our gov't has basically downplayed the devastation of it all. it was not until people started to cuss the gov't out that they actually felt they needed to take bigger steps in the relief effort.
there have been many arguments that this is a race issue. i disagree, the media coverage is the area where race has become an issue, and i will address that in a moment. the gov't has made this a money issue and a class issue. it is evidenced in the response. how long do you think it would have taken the gov't to intervene if this had happened in greenwich, connecticut? how long would it have taken them if this was nyc? we know how long because of 9/11. we know that they would have been here right away. you see, i believe wholeheartedly that george bush has one thing and one thing only on his mind. how we look in the eyes of our onlookers. remember when the tsunami first happened? g dub promised a certain amount of money, but then, when we were criticized for not giving enough, he raised the amount we were giving. now, forget that we are at war at this time and barely have the money to keep our soldiers safe, we are going to deplete our funds helping another country because others have said that we aren't giving enough. so, now we are at katrina. where is our country's aid now? oh, there it is, on the outskirts of the worst devastation.
the media's coverage on the hurricane is deplorable!!!! it's been broadcast all over the place, so i won't go into it again, but just as a reminder...the black families need food just as much as the white families and they are getting it in the same way. it is not looting just because they are black. FYI
there are all kinds of ways that the gov't failed the south, and the irony of it is, those are some of the states that g dub won in the last election. he loved them when they voted him into office for a second term, but when they are floating in a river of their own dead and feces, he is only going to love them from afar...in the sky in air force 1.
