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Continuing with the ranting/taking up space on your flist: another thought, seperated from prior rant as I cling desperately to that dead horse we call 'taste'.
This situation in Louisiana and the rest of the area in Hurricane Katrina's path, what the hell is going on? The so-called 'assistance' and 'aid' the government has been providing is turning out to be more disasterous than the Hurricane itself.
Five days later and there's still people without safe drinking water, food, clothes, etc. There's people still trapped in their crumbling homes and a whole stadium full of people with nowhere to go. The area has almost no communications set up, so some people don't even know if their loved ones are okay.
They had to turn the damn airport into a makeshift hospital because the real ones are filled way past capacity with no relief in sight. There's people laid out on the conveyer belt that your luggage travels down. And there's only so many doctors and nurses, so the most critical cases are being dealt with first, which is understandable, but in the meantime, people with 'less immediate' diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, and the like are being forced to try and stay alive without proper medical attention.
They're shooting looters for stealing TVs and shoes while there's dead bodies floating past them and whole city blocks are total losses. People are being herded from place to place by armed soldiers without any explanation for why they're being moved or when they'll be able to leave. The photos and footage coming out of the area look like scenes from a third world country.
I'm thinking it may be time to refocus their priorties and/or put someone else in charge - someone who knows what they're doing. Hell, I'm a total asshat and I could have organized that mess far better than it is now. We had a more efficient and productive response to a tsunami halfway around the world during the holidays than to something in our own country. WTF?
There's not much the average person can do to help, other than go down there, which isn't a possibility for most people, or donate some cash, which is a little more feasible. So yeah, maybe if you've got some extra green, send it their way. I don't like the Red Cross for reasons too complicated to explain here, but there's several other organizations that could use all the help they can get.
This situation in Louisiana and the rest of the area in Hurricane Katrina's path, what the hell is going on? The so-called 'assistance' and 'aid' the government has been providing is turning out to be more disasterous than the Hurricane itself.
Five days later and there's still people without safe drinking water, food, clothes, etc. There's people still trapped in their crumbling homes and a whole stadium full of people with nowhere to go. The area has almost no communications set up, so some people don't even know if their loved ones are okay.
They had to turn the damn airport into a makeshift hospital because the real ones are filled way past capacity with no relief in sight. There's people laid out on the conveyer belt that your luggage travels down. And there's only so many doctors and nurses, so the most critical cases are being dealt with first, which is understandable, but in the meantime, people with 'less immediate' diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, and the like are being forced to try and stay alive without proper medical attention.
They're shooting looters for stealing TVs and shoes while there's dead bodies floating past them and whole city blocks are total losses. People are being herded from place to place by armed soldiers without any explanation for why they're being moved or when they'll be able to leave. The photos and footage coming out of the area look like scenes from a third world country.
I'm thinking it may be time to refocus their priorties and/or put someone else in charge - someone who knows what they're doing. Hell, I'm a total asshat and I could have organized that mess far better than it is now. We had a more efficient and productive response to a tsunami halfway around the world during the holidays than to something in our own country. WTF?
There's not much the average person can do to help, other than go down there, which isn't a possibility for most people, or donate some cash, which is a little more feasible. So yeah, maybe if you've got some extra green, send it their way. I don't like the Red Cross for reasons too complicated to explain here, but there's several other organizations that could use all the help they can get.