new orleans.
Last night, my mom called me at about midnight. She'd been watching Nightline and thinking about Katrina. We talked for an hour about poor, black people being left to die, because it's not worth the trouble to save them.
This is a textbook example of why I am a socialist. This society has vast resources, and the ruling class consciously and deliberately decided to use those resources to fuel their greed, instead of using it to improve people's lives and safeguard them from the hell they've been plunged into right now. The wetlands, which should have been preserved as a way to blunt the force of a storm like Katrina, were exploited by developers after George W. removed federal protections that kept the wetlands intact to save people's lives. The levee that should have protected New Orleans was allowed to fall into disrepair because in 2003, the ruling class decided to fight a war against poor people in Iraq and decided to make poor people here foot the bill.
And it gives the lie to this administration's claims to want to help poor people and save them from chaos, when this administration is entirely to blame for the chaos and death in New Orleans right now. FEMA announced in 2001 that a hurricane hitting New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters to happen in the U.S., and the administration's response was to take funding away from saving the people there, and to use it to fund an illegal war meant to steal the resources of the Iraqi people and make the Middle East safe for U.S. capital. All this while the rich get tax cuts and the poor pay with their lives. It is disgusting, it is infuriating, and it is exactly what you can expect out of this sick, capitalist system that cares more about oil, empire, and profits than it does about a couple thousand dead niggers.
This is a textbook example of why I am a socialist. This society has vast resources, and the ruling class consciously and deliberately decided to use those resources to fuel their greed, instead of using it to improve people's lives and safeguard them from the hell they've been plunged into right now. The wetlands, which should have been preserved as a way to blunt the force of a storm like Katrina, were exploited by developers after George W. removed federal protections that kept the wetlands intact to save people's lives. The levee that should have protected New Orleans was allowed to fall into disrepair because in 2003, the ruling class decided to fight a war against poor people in Iraq and decided to make poor people here foot the bill.
And it gives the lie to this administration's claims to want to help poor people and save them from chaos, when this administration is entirely to blame for the chaos and death in New Orleans right now. FEMA announced in 2001 that a hurricane hitting New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters to happen in the U.S., and the administration's response was to take funding away from saving the people there, and to use it to fund an illegal war meant to steal the resources of the Iraqi people and make the Middle East safe for U.S. capital. All this while the rich get tax cuts and the poor pay with their lives. It is disgusting, it is infuriating, and it is exactly what you can expect out of this sick, capitalist system that cares more about oil, empire, and profits than it does about a couple thousand dead niggers.