
Victims of Katrina
There can be debate about the horror of the attacks on the World Trade Center. There is no excuse for designing rational criminal destruction spectacular buildings and thousands of innocent lives can be done. It was monstrous, it was fatal, was immoral.
Four years later, survivors still mourn their loved ones and the world turns to Ground Zero as the crucial moment when America's innocence died. Somehow in the families of those who perished in the displaced internal. Several thousand dollars in federal compensation has not dismiss the pain, but allowed the dream of a life still worth living.
Only after the colonies were made were the cries of the family in Oklahoma heard. These families, also suffered a terrible loss, but received sympathy speech.
And now there are the victims of Katrina. Not only hundreds of lost family members, but also companies all lifestyles, links community, and independence which gives gainful employment has been processed. We must ask ourselves: can we treat victims impartiality?
The safety net financial insurance, high earnings before the injury, and security systems of the members retirement, were already in place in New York. The financial generosity government provides an additional buffer against the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune.
Most Katrina victims lived his life without a safety net on the floor only to. Poor, unskilled, and underemployed, many of these Gulf Coast residents barely kept afloat even before the flood lasted maintain what little they had disappeared. They can not bury their dead and concentrate on life as the 911 families were able to do – because there is no life.
Politics of think tanks who cares if a candidate is sufficiently conservative, active interest groups to take the biggest slice of pork to their customers, and Haliburton, fluoride, and the oil barons have no conception of the emotional reality of poverty. Although difficult to pay bills is common to all economic levels in contrast to someone who do not have because they have nothing: no debts, creditors do not – but no money, no food, no home, no resources.
For those who still living in shelters or staying at a hotel until the bonds short this month – where are the federal funds to help them move forward? The government can not even I do not understand how to get the hospital generators, mobile homes or land available.
After the photo-ops, and dramatic flybys Budget Act of Congress, our leaders return to their comfortable beds with easy consciences, confident that they have done enough. Years from now, victims continue to suffer than those who were displaced long ago by Hurricane Andrew.
Except have the opportunity to be the deciding vote in a tight election, which are away from the first page and slowly diving beneath the mud of poverty, a threat more durable than the temporary storm.
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