Katrina

I know that everyone and their cousin has linked to this on their blog, but it bears repeating.
Boing Boing

Hurricane Katrina will likely be one of, if not the largest natural disaster in American history. I'm watching the news reports, and I can't believe that this is the U.S. I'm seeing. Is this the best we can do? I don't know enough about what sort of preparations the city of New Orleans made before the storm hit, but I do know that blaming the victims is exactly what I'd expect from this admininstration. It's so easy to say they should have evacuated when ordered to. I say that the government could have taken one more step and made sure that the very poorest had some way to actually get out town. You know, due to the fact that one quarter of the population there is below the poverty level.

Is this the best we can do? I watch the coverage, and it's heart-wrenching. This will infuriate you.