Katrina

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I have been sitting here watching the horrible devastation Katrina has brought onto the Gulf coast. My heart goes out to all of them, as I could not imagine what is like to have my home and my city completely destroyed and/or under water

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New Orleans was the only place that ever felt like home to me. Bush is a useless racist fucker. I hated him from day 1 but now it's unparalleled. The FEMA people are oblivious. What a nightmare.

It was a very poor city. Many people so not have cars or even the resources to get out. Also, there are always so many warnings that people got used to it thinking it's no big deal. It's like that a lot in Miami too. And this is a HUGE city so if we ever had to evacuate, where on earth would we go???

I am so angry and upset that I have no words. I am glad that everyone I know is safe and accounted for. I posted a message on a bulletin board this morning to find out about my friend and his wife and it turns out they went to North Carolina.

Even in this day and age with all the political correctness mumbo jumbo that people talk about, NOLA was the Old South and there are still racial tensions there. I am thisclose to telling my job to shove it and volunteering for the Red Cross and going to help out. Then I will move to England because this country is going to hell.

What Shrub needs to do is get our troops the hell out of Iraq and here in our own country where they need protection from themselves. For fuck's sake, the police are looting!!! I am so disgusted.

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I totally understand your frustration. It seems like Bush does not care because the majority of the faces of those suffering are poor and black which is a group he could care less about. I bet if the people left in NOLA were mostly white and affluent, the response would have been quicker and better. Bush plans on flying over NOLA and only going in person to the coastal regions of Mississippi, just further illustrating how he could care less about the poor in urban areas. In fact it took him over a week to visit any hurricane devastated areas in person, which is just plain crazy.
I am just so frustrated by the inaction of the federal government. The response to this tragedy has been terrible.