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[nirix5]

This thing with New Orleans is un-fucking-beliveable. How is it that we can give millions of dollars in aid to everyone else, but we can't pull one of our own cities out of the fire? Not to malign the National Guard, but where the fuck is the army?

(Oh, wait. They're fighting a war someplace else that no one on either side really wants them involved in, and the only thing the President is doing is smirking through a Barbara Walters interview, the son of a bitch.)

In addition to the main network news, PBS also broadcasts the BBC World News. Unlike other American news, BBC shows all the footage of refugees screaming things like, "Where is George Bush? Why the hell hasn't help come? etc." This makes me smirk because the networks don't show it, or really anything that would cast W in a negative light. It's all toned down.

Christ, this whole thing is heartbreaking.

You would think that with all the emergency planning, they would have planned for something BESIDES terrorism. Apparently, working out a flood scenario for New Orleans in case of a monster hurricane was on the list, but the White House said, nah, fuck that. We're going to spend millions of dollars on a color alert system that no one pays attention to instead. Oh, and New Orleans? By the way, you're not getting any funding to shore up your levees so they can withstand anything higher than a category 3 hurricane. Sorry.

/disgust

Comments

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And the whole jamming people into the Superdome thing... shit, a Girl Scout would have known better. That's something truly horrible. They've been showing footage of the dead bodies outside, people going into insulin shock because they've had no insulin for three days... and all the people chasing the helicopters and news vans, hoping for help. It's so needlessly, needlessly sad.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

And you can't help but note there's a lot a lot of African American stranded there. I guess they are the poorest and again, it's the poorest who's hit the hardest. And probably teh poorest who can't afford insurance. What aid will they get after, I do wonder.

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

Probably not a whole hell of a lot, all things considered. I'm not entirely sure of the figures and (forgive me) I'm too lazy to go look them up right this second, but I'm relatively sure that the US is close to being bankrupt, what with Iraq and all. They're cutting back on education and health care to fund it.