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Katrina

Today is dedicated to the massive Hurricane Katrina and all topics that have surfaced in the aftermath.

First and foremost, I ask each and everyone of you to say a prayer for the people of Louisiana, as well as other gulf inhabitants. Also pray for the officials and authorities who must make the life changing and redefining decisions.

When I got home from my piddling around campus today the TV was on. Of course. It's always on. But today it was tuned to FoxNews. I must say here that FoxNews is rapidly becoming my favorite news station. It brings out the liberal in me. I'm a ride the fence american. Some issues I'm right wing. Some issues I'm left wing. I can relate to both sides so much that I can't chose one. So I ride the fence. Riding the fence is really fun in my house. My pater familias is a very outspoken and opinionated person. Having someone like that around makes for fun 'discussions.' Today was one of those fun discussions. Every topic presented by the people at FowNews added to or provided for our debate. It was a generally fun day.

One of the topics was using taxpayers money to pay for rebuilding the city of New Orleans. My father and I differed on this topic. He agreed with the contributing reporter. I disagreed. I remembered an article I read a while back about Davy Crockett. He was in Washington at Congress when he pushed for money to help families that were affected by a fire. It was passed. A bit later the same situation arose and Davy Crockett spoke against giving the funds. Upon returning to Tennessee in between instances, a man approached him and said that he disagreed with his actions at Washington. He told him that the government is not a charitable organization. Taxpayers dollars are not supposed to be used that way. A person who makes a donation to the family is one thing but to take education, roads, protecton of military, progress away and give the funds to individuals not the masses is discretionary and wrong. Davy thought about that and retold the story at the next instance. This article crossed my mind today. I thought about the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and other various organizations that are aiding the relief effort. I thought that if the government were to give tax dollars it should be specified towards the rebuilding of the city, not individual's charity. The tax dollars would be for the masses. Let jazz live.

Now to play the church card. I'm surprised I haven't heard this arguement from the right wing fundamentalists. But New Orleans being what it is or was rather, many could veiw this as a long time coming. My question though is, where is the ark? In the time of Noah, God wanted to cleanse the world, his creation, of the corruption and evil ways of man. God wanted to start anew. Some would say that the same thing happened within the last week. I do find it ironic. Some(the backwoods baptists) could even argue that it was God's intention to rid the Good Ol' US of A of the last remenants of the French. I like that idea a little better. But it's just a theory.

Also where is the the foreign aid? When the tsunami hit Asia last spring, the world waited and criticized the US for taking so long to offer support. Where's our aid? Yes we are one of the wealthiest nations in the world, however, all of our help and aid is not reciprocated. How are we expected to be the bank of the world if there are no deposits? We cannot leave this unnoticed. If the rest of the world doesn't like us so much, why do they expect our money to be so readily available to them? Why is Venezuela the only country that has offered any kind of relief? Look for more on this paragraph in future posts.

Lastly, please keep my aunt and uncle in your prayers. While they are in Mobile, not New Orleans, my aunt was still without power for a while, whilest my uncle was on a Coast Guard boat in the gulf.

Thank you and goodnite!

posted by Unknown @ 23:38