Some comments about the fiasco surrounding huricane Katrina:


1. I wonder how much money will be raised and given out by the federal government when compared with 9-11. 10,000 may be dead. About triple the number in 9-11. Half a million to a million people may be left homeless. Very few people were left homeless by 9-11. So when very rich people lose their jobs and can’t pay their million dollar mortgages but still have considerable assets we have compassion. When poor people who have nothing left then we lack it. I thing it would putrid if we paid out more money to fewer rich people in 9-11 but less to very poor people now.

2. George Bush seemed to care more about the fact that people were looting than people were starving. Its Jean van jean from Les Miserables all over again. Conservatives have no compassion. They seemed to not 'get' the fact that when people are starving and have no roof over their heads they don’t act very normally. To expect orderly behavior in such circumstances is absurd. The reason for law and order is to allow society to survive. If there is a situation where keeping the law means you are going to die then there is no point. Conservatives seem to like law and order not for high and mighty moral and philosophical reasons but because it’s so aesthetically pleasing. Kind of like a neatly mowed lawn. And in their mind, if people die as a consequence of all this neatness - they don’t care.

3. Where are all the conservatives now? Why won’t they 'take responsibility'? They always go on and on about morality and integrity. Monica Lewinsky ruined our nation's morality. Thousands dieing and hundreds of thousands destitute before out eyes when we could alleviate their suffering - that’s ok. That’s not a lack of integrity according to these hypocrites. Makes me sick....

4. I am amazed that conservatives have lots of money to kill people and to incarcerate people but no money to save people's lives and to alleviate their suffering. Where are all the Terry Sheivo people now? Let them save all those hurricane refugees. How comes they care so much about one brain dead person but nothing about thousands or fully alive poeple. How anyone can take the pro life people seriously after Katrina, I don’t know.

4. I hope they THINK when rebuilding. If they rebuild in the same place what is to stop this happening all over again. Global warming to said to increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. What if we rebuild and 20 years later New Orleans gets hit directly. Then what? So perhaps the city should be built North West, far away from menacing costal waters. Otherwise this disaster could happen all over again. How about here in Columbia, La and to its West. Of course we would need to build a new highway linking I20 to I49. Yes it would involve changing zoning laws and environmental laws. But a million people are homeless. They take priority. It would give New Orleansa chance to rebuild without its old corruption. They could look around at what had worked and build a city that people want to live in and that is pleasant to live in. :)