Often biting satire is the most effective means to highlight the awful truth.
HOUSTON—Evacuees from the overheated, filth-encrusted wreckage of the New Orleans Superdome were bussed to the humid, 110-degree August heat and polluted air of Houston last week, in a move that many are resisting. "Please, God, not Houston. Anyplace but Houston," said one woman, taking shelter under an overpass. "The food there is awful, and the weather is miserable. And the traffic—it's like some engineer was making a sick joke." Authorities apologized for transporting survivors to a city "barely better in any respect," but said the blistering-hot, oil-soaked Texas city was in fact slightly better, and that casualties due to gunfire would be no worse.
White Foragers Report Threat Of Black Looters
NEW ORLEANS—Throughout the Gulf Coast, Caucasian suburbanites attempting to gather food and drink in the shattered wreckage of shopping districts have reported seeing African Americans "looting snacks and beer from damaged businesses." "I was in the abandoned Wal-Mart gathering an air mattress so I could float out the potato chips, beef jerky, and Budweiser I'd managed to find," said white survivor Lars Wrightson, who had carefully selected foodstuffs whose salt and alcohol content provide protection against contamination. "Then I look up, and I see a whole family of [African-Americans] going straight for the booze. Hell, you could see they had already looted a fortune in diapers." Radio stations still in operation are advising store owners and white people in the affected areas to locate firearms in sporting-goods stores in order to protect themselves against marauding blacks looting gun shops.
Bush Urges Victims To Gnaw On Bootstraps For Sustenance
WASHINGTON, DC—In an emergency White House address Sunday, President Bush urged all people dying from several days without food and water in New Orleans to "tap into the American entrepreneurial spirit" and gnaw on their own bootstraps for sustenance. "Government handouts are not the answer," Bush said. "I believe in smaller government, which is why I have drastically cut welfare and levee upkeep. I encourage you poor folks to fill yourself up on your own bootstraps. Buckle down, and tear at them like a starving animal." Responding to reports that many Katrina survivors have lost everything in the disaster, Bush said, "Only when you work hard and chew desperately on your own footwear can you live the American dream."
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What we need is people who truly care to help these people out. How many can you take in? Sometimes money just isn't enough.
And many people truly do care and are helping in thousands of ways, both financially (which is very important), and more directly.
Our leadership is acting like they care now, but they showed their true colors in the first 4 days. Not that they had any credibility with me to begin with, but they've really done it this time. If this country as a whole has any sense at all, we'll never forgive them for this.
You said it all in your second paragraph..."Not that they had any credibility with me to begin with." You view will always be skewed and I don't beleiev you will have an open mind about anything that any neocon, republican, or conservative would do or say.
Yeah, it's called learning from experience. Give it a try sometime.
I fully and freely admit that I am skeptical of this administration to a high degree. I also believe that skepticism is supported by reality and it is wise to be skeptical of those who have so consistently been shown to be liars.
That's, waddayacallit... common sense.
I do however, through my skepticism, still look into each of these issues and examine them on their merits. Skepticism does not imply bias.
