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that my post probably won't make sense. We are pouring billions of dollars into Iraq, money picked from U.S. taxpayers pockets; we are saddling our grandchildren with huge amounts of debt in order to shower more money onto the ultra rich; what we are NOT doing is helping our fellow citizens in New Orleans.
We are, according to conservatives, supposed to feel sympathy for The Dick because he almost killed a friend, poor Cheney, his hunting trip was ruined because a lawyer foolishly got mistaken for a quail, and all of the pity goes to The Dick.
New Orleans is a different story. First, they were abandoned by the government. Bush's poll numbers were slipping, so he had to spend hundreds of dollars more of our money to fly there for phony photo ops, and he promised to rebuild the city. That was just one more Bush lie.
Now, U.S. citizens are still abandoned. After the hurricane, Bush wasted no time giving millions to Halliburton for clean-up, which remains uncleaned-up, people live in tents while mobile homes deteriorate somewhere else, and people can't even get basic medical care.
Reading the story was sickening enough. I made the mistake of reading some of the responses on the discussion page. There were so many hateful, bigoted comments, that I had to stop. Again, the victims are the ones being blamed. They are being subjected to the most vile attitudes I've ever seen. Some of those posters seem to think that the victims are at fault for not having insurance.
Some DID have insurance, until the place they worked got swept away in the flood waters, or blown down by the wind. Some cannot afford insurance. These poor people have lost loved ones, their homes, everything they owned, and our country doesn't have the will to help them. It's not enough, though, for some of the people who wrote the hateful comments.
What happened to us? I think that having Republicans in charge has unleashed the most hateful feelings of some who, in the past, would not have been so quick to voice their bigoted, loathsome thoughts. Republicans have made it ok to hate, ok to look down on others, ok to swagger around like a school yard bully, because people look to their government as an example.
I've been thinking that it might be a good idea to have a protest against the deplorable conditions in New Orleans and the other areas which remain in ruins. We march to protest Chimp's invasion of Iraq, maybe tens of thousands "Walking to New Orleans" would do something to make the government wake up and take notice.
I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that for the richest country in the world to allow it's citizens to live in misery and squalor because of a natural disaster is both shameful and disgusting. And freepers think Bush will keep America safe? What a sick, sick joke.
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