Sunday Session

Note on Hurricane Katrina...

It's a weird feeling watching all of the pictures on the TV of New Orleans and all the destruction that Hurrican Katrina caused that area...knowing that I'm on the other side of the world from that and watching those people suffer so much in a major American city. It is beyond me how the richest and most powerful country in the world is not capable of acting faster to help those in desperate need within our own borders. We are so fast to go and provide aid in so many nations across the world and set up democratic governments all over the world but yet we can't even save our own cities and citizens.

I know some will say not to blame the government (and I am by no means blaming the President because their are many people below him that should have acted much faster...not to mention that it really isn't his job in the first place)....but this is something that many geographers and scientists have said could happen for many many years.....we knew that that city would not be able to withstand this kind of disaster so why did we not do anything about it long ago? Why not build levys that CAN withstand not just a Level 3 but a Level 5 Hurricane? My thoughts go out to those who have suffered and continue to suffer allong the Gulf Coast and I only hope that time will heal that area and bring it back to what it used to be a little more than a week ago....and I hope that our government learns their lesson in better securing our own borders and people before we go spending billions of dollars everywhere else around the globe.

posted by Will181198 @ 5:33 PM