Hurricane Katrina Yet again, our federal government has dropped the ball bigtime, and it’s the American people that are paying the price for their incompetence. *sigh* I can’t help but be angry (yet so sad for all those poor people) because so many people have needlessly died in, and around, New Orleans and continue to die because they aren’t getting the help they so desperately need.

Why is this happening when they knew well ahead of time that Katrina, an F5 hurricane, was going to hit New Orleans? Why weren’t the levies, they knew were inadequate to protect the city, shored up? Why weren’t the people who could not evacuate themselves helped? Why did it take 5 days for any measurable aid to reach the city, especially when the news reporters and regular people who came to help got there 4+ days faster than federal people trained to deal with disasters? Why are these federal agencies not doing the job that they are supposed to be doing? Why, why, why?!

FEMA should be totally ashamed of their performance thus far, and the top echelon of the agency should be fired, and/or brought up on charges of dereliction of duty. Plus, the fact that because so many of our National Guard are in Iraq they’re not available to help the people they should be helping. They’re NATIONAL GUARD, not FOREIGN GUARD. They are supposed to be protecting and serving in America, but because Bush wants to line his, and his cronies, pockets with oil money they are not here where they’re so desperately needed. People are being beaten, raped & killed because of this, and it’s so fucking sad. :(

The only kudos I have to say are for the Coast Guard, and the thousands of regular people who did what they could to help save people… Bless you & may you stay safe.

I urge you to donate anything you can: $1, $5, $10, even 50¢ if that’s all you can afford to one, or more, of the following charities: