Reply #48: If we can't give these people a hand up,

[troubleinwinter]

then we cannot call ourselves a nation.

The purpose of our government is for the good of the people, not the corporations and war machine.

Write your reps and tell them to get their noses pointed in the right direction NOW, or get the fuck out of the way for someone who WILL work for the good of the people.

The people of the Gulf are the best resource we've got for rebuilding, and they can and will do it, but they NEED A HAND UP!

Mehr... I saw a history show recently about the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. The city was just gone. Rubble. It was rebuilt, of course. The Gulf will be too. But it is on OUR SHOULDERS to DEMAND of our leadership that they work for US. We want our country back!!!!! We want our brothers and sisters in the Gulf to have our collective "hand up".