Our state rep, whom I adore, must keep the same 5 to 9 hours I do: he’s already responded to an email I sent this morning, and he’s got it right: the ongoing mismanagement of the Katrina victims is, “a mess”.
To further erode whatever limited confidence one has in government at this point, he also admitted to having “the same questions” that I do.
And this is over FOUR DAYS after the announcement was made that 2,500 people would be relocated to this area.
In Baton Rouge, one of the relief epicenters, residents who are fearful of a breakdown in law enforcement are standing in line for 3 hours to buy firearms.
Traffic jams are tripling normal commute times.
School districts in Louisiana and Texas are being overwhelmed by an influx of students.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts is spending OUR money hand-over-fist to accommodate “guests” who may not actually ever get here because guess what? They DON’T WANT TO LEAVE Houston or Baton Rouge or wherever else they happen to be living right now.
Over half the states – presumably, many of them with economies and climates a lot better than ours – have offered sanctuary, and the Feds have already said that there are more offers than people.
Question: if your home were wiped out, and you had any kind of marketable skills, where would you want to live: in a place 1,800 miles from your extended family, with hard winters, projected fuel shortages, a current outbreak of EEE, limited professional jobs and one of the highest costs of living in the US?
Guess when the politicians started to make their grand plans, no one bothered to consult the people affected. Give them an “A” for arrogance!
Not that this matters, but the writers on truthout.org, whom I normally respect, are blithering about the consequences of “small government” ideologues at the Federal level.
Excuse me, but when did $40.7 BILLION in FY2005 public funds for the so-called Homeland Security Division become a bogey for “small” government?
Of course, the spin doctors in Washington must be working overtime on a few upcoming PR diversions, e.g., the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the anniversary of September 11.
Can you imagine what those al-Qaeda folks, some of whom were apparently educated in the US’s finest business and engineering schools, must be thinking right now?
How do you say “Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk” in Arabic?