Mississippians’ Suffering Overshadowed
On Thursday, I posted a question about the lack of significant coverage coming out of affected areas outside of New Orleans and why there wasn’t more of it. Looks like I’m not the only one wondering:
On Thursday, I posted a question about the lack of significant coverage coming out of affected areas outside of New Orleans and why there wasn’t more of it. Looks like I’m not the only one wondering:
I was particularly struck by a quote I read in a Reuters article from someone in Sri Lanka who compared the post-tsunami atmosphere there with post-Katrina atmososphere in New Orleans. From the article:
There’s been a lot of Bush-blaming going on in the last week by the usual suspects about the fact that funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers had been decreased by a substantial amount last year in favor of pumping more money into the Iraq war effort. The conclusion drawn from that from that same crowd is that if Bush hadn’t have called for the decrease in funding for the US ACE, the levees that burst earlier this week after Hurricane Katrina’s rampage would have been upgraded quickly so as to avoid the exact scenario that sadly happened in New Orleans on Monday.
Thursday I asked the question: Looting: Is it as bad in Mississippi as it is in Louisiana? I went on to ask more:
…per La. Governor Blanco (emphasis added):