Comments | dopeynowhere: New Orleans

dopeynowhere

New Orleans

Sep 01, 2005 06:07

All right, let's first establish I am going to hell for making "Katrina and the Waves" jokes before this whole catastrophe hit ( Read more... )

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dopeynowhere September 2 2005, 00:33:52 UTC

Thanks. The stories on the news are getting increasingly hysterical and barbaric. Where is the help? Where is the food and water, the air-drops? I can understand if it's incomplete or insufficient, but there is none. Nice fly-over Bush. I hear they get another one tomorrow. Maybe Bush can drop his Continental breakfast and a cup of coffee out the window..

New Orleans anonymous September 2 2005, 01:28:02 UTC

I was, at first, trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the slow government response. but this has gotten WAY too bad to ignore. I don't usually watch CNN, FOX and what-not, but one reporter asked WHY do we not have an organized response to this? And I'd like to add, WHY do the media outlets have a greater grasp on the devistation? WHY is our GOV acting like they just didn't know it was that bad?? Oh, yea, thank you bush, for cutting your vacation short for this.
man, i'm mad and sad all at the same time.
-Sue

Re: New Orleans dopeynowhere September 2 2005, 02:24:12 UTC

I know, I tried to withhold judgement too, 'cause I think in a crisis it's easy to look for scapegoats to place your frustrations. But the president stays on his vacation a DAY longer, then does a photo-op fly-over in his power tie? Wtf?? No food and water drops after FIVE days?? It really starts to seem about race and class, I hate to say it.. once again, just like right after 9-11, this administration botched things. Bush had a chance to show that that we care about all races and classes equally, but his actions sure contradict that. If this had been Manhattan no way does it take 5 days for food and water.

Re: New Orleans anonymous September 2 2005, 03:11:52 UTC

yup, and that's why i'm sad and disgusted. obviously, the 'powers that be' knew how many 'displaced' individuals there were/are in New Orleans. And that would be the families that live in poverty. the suffering these people are going through is so wrong on so many levels. and from here, let the political finger pointing begin. which is so useless. these politicians so live in a different world, and it's startin' to show!
-Sue

sparrow_fox September 2 2005, 01:44:50 UTC

So. Damn. True.