Please
read this article in the LA Times today There are unlivable conditions within this country, where people are being treated like, and turning into animals, fighting for survival.
Roaming gangs shooting at, stealing from, raping and beating the battered victims of this AVOIDABLE tragedy. (Cut funds to the levy that broke to feed the war, national guard and their high water vehicles and other hurricane equipt. sent to Iraq, etc)
Our Government has made a mess. Condoleeza Rice out buying new shoes while people drown in their own houses. George Bush takes time to play a round of golf and follows it up by soothing his worried friends playing the guitar.
Look at that smile... that makes everything allright.
It's obvious it's come down to the citizens to take care of our own while big brother is out playing war games and making empty promises.
Please do what you can, if you can donate to the red cross, even just $5 call 1-800-HELP-NOW or visit redcross.org If you can offer housing please visit moveon.org. Donate clothing, food, whatever you can spare. These are Americans living in conditions you cant imagine, possiably homeless for the next year. Their lives, families, jobs, posessions, houses, all of it gone. Left with nothing, and fearing for their lives while their president takes more time off. Their mayor pleading for help from anywhere. Hospitals out of supplies. Not enough police and national guard to keep order. Please, donate your time, money, items, to help these people.
If you can't, please spread the word. Re-post this, or write your own. Tell your rich uncle Joe to help, tell your crazy hippie neighbor to get the old van out and take a trip to volunteer. A lot of people remember the days when America rushed to aid it's own people in need, but with resources streched so thin, no National Guard, no money, and heading tward a depression FEMA, the Bush Administration, Congress, no one is stepping up to help and they need to be reminded that they have the power to help when no one else will.