Is This Happening in America?

[baldguy]

Authorities can't make the waters that did that retreat. They can't begin to rebuild the levee or the homes and businesses made uninhabitable, at least not now. They will never be able to restore much of what was washed away in the flood.

But if a reporter can interview a man standing outside a looted drugstore, and record his reluctance at having to go inside and steal pads for incontinence, why couldn't someone get medical supplies to the people huddled at the Superdome or the convention center in time, or the buses promised to evacuate them?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_us/katrina_third_world_images

Because we have a President who doesn't care that his inaction and incompetence cause his people to suffer.

[wli]

1. And die. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands died because of it. n/t

[applegrove]

2. There was a payoff to letting the desperate masses be shown on

T.V.