We're here in the Big Easy, and all I can say is "Whoa". After all the aid promised and NOT delivered by the Federal government, it still looks like a war zone. Hard to believe we're in America. The state of this city shows the craven, self serving, delusional foolishness of an inept, incompetent and corrupt, ideological administration has abandoned hundreds of thousands of its' citizens to make the point that government doesn't work.
The top picture shows one of thousands of houses with the odd code- 2 humans and a dog were found dead here. The next is just the end of someone's previously pleasant life. The last is the lowernine.org house.
I'm too pissed to type.
Please consider giving to lowernine.org or volunteering at their web site.
Rick Prose and lowernine.org are among the groups working at rebuilding, but the scale of the destruction and the failure of the government to act is infuriating. We bought a shell of a house for them to have an HQ and got our first look at it today. Here are some of the scenes of a once great American city laid low by 2 disasters name Katrina and George. Following that is a reminder that conservative leadership has been ignoring poor people in the American South for a very long time.
Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman
What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through cleard down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has
done
To this poor crackers land."
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
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