Katrina

[Andromeda18_]

Go ahead and comment on how badly the "government" prepared for this. I've stopped listening. Where are the lines between Local government, state government and federal government, huh? So who do we blame? "Blame them all! They should have..." Blah, Blah, Blah!!!
I can tell you there are some agencies that are working their asses off to get some releif to those people down there, like FEMA.
It's a little difficult to get things in and out when the roads aren't in the best conditions. Granted, some agencies were not planning this hurricane to pan out the way it did, but who can predict or control nature.
So, stop blaming the government, that means you not from the US too. Just because things don't go the way you think they should doesn't mean you can stand there wagging a finger. GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND HELP!

Well, I personaly see things like this: I have no doubt everyone is trying their best to help the victims of the Katrina, the only thing that surprised me and it was just that, surprise, was the fact that everything was so poorly organized. I don't mean what's being done now but what should have been done before, I'm talking about prevention, year-round prevention, such as evacuation plans, etc. From what I've heard in the news it seems the reason for that lack of prevention was a lack of funds. Apparently after September 11th a lot of money, which was used in such things as prevention, was diverted to the fight against terrorism. That's a comprehensible move but has turned out not to be a wise one, or so it seems at the moment.
I can understand why you're so mad Ka-Talliya, you've been working hard to help people and you get nothing but criticism just hang in there.

I wouldn't say we are the richest. I think there are few countries that are richer (actually doesn't have a decipit). Also if we was the richest country our Doller would probably be stronger then the Euro or the Pound. But thats for a different discussion.

Rank Country GDP - per capita
1 Luxembourg $55,100
2 Norway $37,800
3 United States $37,800
4 San Marino $34,600
5 Switzerland $32,700
6 Denmark $31,100
7 Iceland $30,900
8 Austria $30,000
9 Canada $29,800
10 Ireland $29,600
11 Belgium $29,100
12 Australia $29,000
13 Netherlands $28,600
14 Japan $28,200
15 United Kingdom $27,700
16 France $27,600
17 Germany $27,600
18 Finland $27,400
19 Monaco $27,000
20 Sweden $26,800

Not the richest country in the world but the 2nd richest alongside Norway.

Just found out something that almost made my mom cry. Sri Lanka is among the countries that offered aid when the hurricane hit. Their country really couldn't afford it but they said because we were there for them they would be there for us. Gotta respect that.

If we all would give 1 dollar there'd be a lot of money to help people in need and there wouldn't be any need for poor countries like Sri Lanka to offer the little money they have. Portugal alone would raise over 10 million dollars. To people like us (from Europe, Canada and the USA) a dollar is nothing but spare change!

Someone on another forum posted 2 news reports from Yahoo news. Both accompanied with a picture of someone wading through the water with a bag of looted goods and one of them was white and the other black. With the white man the comment is he was wading through the water after "finding" goods in a local grocery store and you geuss what they said how the black man got these goods. On tv they only show black people looting and they repeat the same movies all the time. I don't know but to me it all seems on purpose, biased and not good for the already tense race relations in the south.

I'm not saying people in the US aren't racists, I know better than that, I was just explaining that since there are many more black people in New Orleans than there are white people you're obviously going to see more blacks than whites doing both bad and good things. I expect some racist news reports but I won't say they're racist simply because they show black people looting in a place where almost 70% of the population is black!