Quote Originally Posted by ethsfreshman
And during hurricane katrina millions of tax dollars were used to do... NOTHING!!! i was down there whee the levees broke in january. i saw all of new orleans. nothing looks any different. there is still trash everywhere, there are STILL dead bodies lying about, there are STILL people with nowhere to go, but hey, good ol' georgie sent some natl. guard tanks down HIMSELF to guard.... A SUPER FUCKING WALMART!
he had them specifically instructed to shoot anyone trespassing.
and they had rows and rows and rows of canned goods, but they did not just give them away... noooo... they shipped them off to another walmart to salvage what was not damaged!
The national guard troops were not saving people, (i heard this directly from someone who was in the storm) they were going to guard stores from looters!
I feel yah on the lack of response to Katrina, but I also understand that there were tons of people looting and stealing from stores. Sure, they were hungry and cold or whatever, but you still can't take the law into your own hands. I think the problem was the lack of organization as far as clean-up and rebuilding went. It was all just a big mess, with no order at all, and no one to organize a system of getting things back to normal. I noticed that when our city was recently hit by a couple tornadoes. The next few days after the storms, our lovely mayor and governor ROD kept flying over the city observing the damage, then holding press conferences saying how bad the damage was. There was no one to organize clean up crews or help get food, clothes, or shelter to those who need it. I think it was the leader of a local outreach program called Contact Ministries that finally stepped up and called for those who wanted to volunteer to meet at a certain location. Just goes to show that it isn't really helping if you just fly over those affected instead of right there with them. Kind of ironic huh? The leaders of the city and state are flying overhead, while all the little people are just looking up and watching, waiting for help.