I found this on Can-o-fun. I want everyone to watch it.
This poor girl has been waiting for a YEAR for a FEMA trailer. (Which is probably full of unsafe levels of toxic gases anyway.)
They told that her obviously destroyed, mold-filled house was livable and she should move back in. They lost here application for a trailer THREE times! What ugly sort of massive incompetence is this?
It's almost like they set out to intetionally loot the nation's treasury by underfunding and downsizing any and all federal programs that could potentially give aid to the poor - while at the same time limiting our ability to fund these programs in the future by instituting massive tax cuts for the wealthiest in the country, which reduces federal revenues - while at the same time embroiling us in adventursome foreign wars/quagmires which require massive outlays of hundreds of billions of dollars from our budget for years (if not decades) to come. It's almost like they underfund education and stifle media content to limit the mass's ability to reason things out and fight back against them and their global fascist agenda. It's almost like they set out to intentionally deprive the under-privileged and the under-class of any ability to help themselves, better educate themselves or to live in relative freedom with some modicum of privacy. The Repugnantcans like to pull out that old bromide, "class warfare" to defend themselves from liberals who start making these kind of accusations. To me, this is the same thing as Donald Rumsfeld calling his critics, "Morally and intellectually confused Nazi sympathizers." It's a convenient way for the pot to confuse the debate by calling the kettle black, and the only "class warfare" that I am seeing is blatant warfare by Rethuglican f**kwads on the American poor. (pant pant heeze heeze heeze)
She testifies as to the LACK of any assistance from the federal gov't for the past year. And she says that the only real help has been coming from ordinary American citizens, people who actually volunteer their time to go down and help out with cleaning up the disaster.
I know there is some truth to this because my roommate just got back from spending three weeks down there doing exactly that. I have also been giving it serious consderation myself.
She is so articulate and so RIGHT at the end where she tells how upset she us about all the money spent on foreign wars and how we need to take care of our own and how NO has been forgotten. I think this information is getting out more and more. It is still a disaster and the recovery effor is still a disater. And Americans care about their own! I am upset. :wtf:
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Here is the vid of this poor girl down in St. Bernard Parish:
http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18301
Ok, now just for KICKS, juxtapose that poor cajun woman's plight, waiting a whole YEAR for a trailer or some real assistance from the feds, with what this article on Slate says about how the clean up of San Francisco progressed after the 1906 earthquake. It was well under way, or mostly accomplished within a year. NO is still lacking electricity for 60% of its neighborhoods. Only a small precentage of the former population has chosen to move back (big surprise there).
http://www.slate.com/id/2148311
"A year after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, San Franciscans had moved out of emergency camps in parks and playgrounds and were rebuilding their homes. Progress in New Orleans has been slower. It's been estimated that as much as two-thirds of the population has not returned. The cleanup is still incomplete, and attempts at developing a comprehensive master plan have pretty much fallen apart."
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That was 100 years ago, folks. And San Franciscans were rebuilding their homes and their city was coming back to life. We have not moved forward. We have moved backward. The people of New Orleans are no where near to rebuilding their homes and their city. Even if they have the means financially, they have no electricity, so they can't begin any serious rebuilding efforts.
I heard a NO print journalist on AAR talking to Malloy about the problem they face. It was the author of the book "One Dead in Attic", which is a phrase he sees on a rooftop every day when he drives to work. He said to imagine a huge remodeling job that you were were going to have to do to your house, the kind that the contractor always says will cost $40,000.00 and winds up costing $80,000.00, and that is supposed to take four months to complete and winds up taking eight months. Now imagine that on the scale of 275,000 houses that need the job done, and you have some idea of the problem they face. Of course, not having any power for more than half the city might contibute somewhat to the complexity of the operation.
Ok, now for some more KICKS, watch again the part of the Brian Jennings interview where Bush talks about the federal government's response to Katrina. He mostly talks about the things that they are still planning on doing to help...a year later! It's a second tragedy, an avoidable one in my opinion, that such a pathetic effort has been made to help the people of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. The last third of this video is a political analyst on Hardball doing a good job of picking apart Bush's response to Jenning's questions and picking apart the federal government's lack of repsonse to the Katrina disaster.
Now someone please tell me what bizzaro universe I live in where these bozos are still able to convince 34% of the pollable citizens of my country that they still deserve to be in power??
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