This hurricane relief stuff is really pissing me off...or rather, the lack of relief.
I heard someone
make a good point - it was easy for us to get stuff to the Tsunami
victims over night...the people in the South have been waiting for
something, anything for 4 days. TV crews are making it down there.
Harry Connick Jr went down there in a private plane because that's
where he's from. Obviously people are making it in and out so I just
wonder why the government can't do anything more than send thousands od
national guard troops in to do "crowd control" but they can't feed
people or bring the water. I don't understand how the TV crews can get in and out and 'round the clock reporting - are they bringing food with them? Medicine? Anything?
Earlier on the news, I heard a nurse speak of how she broke into a pharmacy in order to get medicine to help the people around her. TV crews are getting in...is anyone bringing doctors in? I mean, one of our local Los Angeles ABC reporters is down there...how is it that supplies can't get down there just as easily as she can. It really baffles me.
Old people and children (and others too, obviously) are
dying and I don't understand why it doesn't seem like anything is
getting done. I'd hate to think that it's because the majority of the people are poor and/or black. I want to hope there's actually some sort of a good reason why people have been suffering like this for four days. It's very sad and very frustrating.
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