Consider me boggled.
Sep. 2nd, 2005 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieOkay, watching the SBS international news, and the Katrina aftermath footage. Particularly the stuff about people dying of dehydration and heatstroke in the streets. Can I just say one thing?
What the fuck is the government doing in terms of disaster relief? Bloody hell, after the tsunamis in December there was relief on its way within 24 hours. It's been three bloody days!
And just why aren't they evacuating people from the place and getting them to places they can get help? Oh, there's buses going out, but when you have thousands of people to move, you need more than 70 Greyhounds, people.
You see this stuff in Third World countries. You certainly don't expect it in the jewel of developed nations.
Disclaimer: I'm not aiming this at the American people as a whole, or even the various aid relief organisations like the Red Cross, although I didn't see much in the way of footage there. It's pretty much aimed at thhe government, whose job it is to deal with this sort of thing. Ye gods, Bush doesn't have the slightest clue, does he?
What the fuck is the government doing in terms of disaster relief? Bloody hell, after the tsunamis in December there was relief on its way within 24 hours. It's been three bloody days!
And just why aren't they evacuating people from the place and getting them to places they can get help? Oh, there's buses going out, but when you have thousands of people to move, you need more than 70 Greyhounds, people.
You see this stuff in Third World countries. You certainly don't expect it in the jewel of developed nations.
Disclaimer: I'm not aiming this at the American people as a whole, or even the various aid relief organisations like the Red Cross, although I didn't see much in the way of footage there. It's pretty much aimed at thhe government, whose job it is to deal with this sort of thing. Ye gods, Bush doesn't have the slightest clue, does he?
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Date: 2005-09-02 11:46 am (UTC)Goodness only knows what's happening in Biloxi - it got hit with the actual hurricane (not just the backwash like New Orleans) and it's disappeared from our news entirely.
I have a feeling Bush's popularity polls are going to worsen significantly during this. One can only hope that it cripples the next Republican candidate for President as well.
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Date: 2005-09-02 12:33 pm (UTC)Disease is going to be a huge factor in this. Without proper sanitation and no clean drinking water, how long do you think it'll be before something like cholera breaks out?
And we can but hope this damages the Republicans - if this doesn't, nothing short of being caught on tape molesting altar boys will...