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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Forgotten

It seems to me that People have forgotton the national tragedy that took place in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina seems now to have been nothing more than a ratings cash cow for the news networks. Mid-term elections are comings up and it seems to me that the events that happened in New Orleans, and following lack of planning and leadership would be a huge point to make. People's live are forever ruined the least that people could do in the media is have updates. It isn't just the media that has forgotton the government has let it slip their mind and so did our fellow americans. It was once you couldn't have a conversation with out New Orleans coming up. Now I will be lucky to hear one thing about Katrina. The Hurricane Season started, yet my confidence that New Orleans is ready for another hurricane is low. levees aren't completed. Also there needed to be a major cleaning of house in FEMA they fumble that whole situation. To add the pain that the orleanians went through tax fraud is occuring. Money that FEMA received to give to the victims is either gone or going to people who don't need the money. We as americans tend to give a lot of attention at one time and treat things as if they mean so much to us until we get bored with it then its "oh, I forgot all about that". New Orleans is still in disarray, people still live in tents or on the streets. the govn't oblviously has bigger things to deal with like securing foreign nations, banning gay marriage, televison obsenity, killing terrorist (conveniently close to mid-term elections?). My point here is this the people still need help. The problems that were there in november are still there, we can't forget about our brothers and sisters.

2 comments:

kb said...

Well, the media hasn't totally forgotten. Storm season is rapidly approaching again. Lately I've been hearing about some of the abuses of assistance funds by some evacuees: sex-change, $200 bottle of wine at Hooters, Hawaiian vacation, etc. We know this is a miniscule minority of the funding recipients, but the media's focus on a handful of abuses paints a picture that makes it easier to quell sympathy and deny further assistance to everybody. Now, and in the future. The timing is once again curious; is it laying the groundwork for the next disaster? "See what they did with the nation's assistance last time?"

Robert E. Morgan, Jr. said...

what do you propose the government do, or better yet what have you did? In order for us to be leaders we can't just point out the problems, we have to find some way to make a dent in the problems we see.