Half a million people evacuated from their homes, more than 430,000 acres of land burned to ashes or affected, and more than $1 billion dollars in damages.
The hills of
As some of you might remember my first column this semester was about the catastrophe of Katrina and our government’s failure to adequately take care of its citizens.
Well, it seems President Bush and FEMA learned their lesson as the 11,000 evacuees who fled their homes to Qualcomm Stadium in
The real tragedy here is that it took the destruction of a whole city and the burning of 400,000 acres of land for the government to remember their basic duty.
While the quick and efficient response of our government to this disaster deserves applause, it still does not undermine the fact that this administration has failed us completely. Please people, do not allow them to fool you with bottles of water and relaxing massages. According to the Washington Post FEMA did not even hold a real press conference.
“Questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters” columnist Al Kamen wrote in the Washington Post.
It’s all an act aimed at boosting poll numbers. Clearly, it is one last attempt to clean-up after themselves after trashing our White House.
Looks like our lame duck president might not be heading south for the winter without an attempt at a respectable quack!
Let me make one thing clear – this is not an attempt at making light out of this situation. Half a million people had to leave their homes in a matter of minutes and thousands of fire fighters are sacrificing their lives.
I will not even attempt to imagine how it feels to not know if you still have a home to go back to. My prayers, as I’m sure all of yours, go out to every single person affected by this catastrophe. Although, I’m sure by the time this goes to print, this situation will be under control.
It seriously appalls me to witness the selfishness of our President. Our President did not even bother to show up at the site of the massive fires until Thursday when most of the fires had started to cool down.
But, this can expected from a President that chose to stay on vacation while New Orleans was drowning. Have no worry, I’m sure all those photos and camera views of him behind the ruins will suffice.
