Obviously, we can't just throw money at this hurricane.

[Ladyhawk]

I donated a little to one organization and will probably continue to donate, but things are not getting done. I don't think it's a lack of money; I think it's a lack of man power.

National Guard, FEMA, Homeland Security...where the fuck are you? Oh yeah, you guardsmen are in Iraq because of Commander Bunnypants.

Do you think we should ignore the order to stay the hell away? Should we disobey our government this time because it is failing the folks in the hurricane-affected regions? I'm used to obeying authority, but I get the feeling the government is fucking this up royally.

I can't go, personally, due to health problems, but I know many, MANY of you would hop in a car and go right now if you thought you could help. What should we do? Anyone have any bright ideas?

Once again we lack leadership. :(

[ArkDem]

1. Hard to drive there when the roads are underwater. Hard to fly there when

the airports are under water. Perhaps those with boats will go.

[Ladyhawk]

2. *throws hands into the air* I just don't know what to do. n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. I think you need to be careful to avoid

being taken in by far-right wing propaganda, Ladyhawk.

I wouldn't EVER use that term, "throwing money" at ANYthing. It is a favourite example of Newspeak of the far right, and not appropriate terminology for a Democrat (outside the beltway, need I add).

"Throwing money" at problems is always precisely what needs to be done, so that administrators have the resources available to react immediately and appropriately to problems. Indeed, it needs to be thrown at the highest possible velocity.

Of course, ACCOUNTABILITY is the great NO-NO of the far right, but then, after the problems are solved and the situations are rectified, the "money-throwing" administrators, can and should be be held to account, for the manner in which the funds were applied.

When money is "thrown" at social services of any kind, at communities in trouble of any kind (ooooh that scary word "community"... so like "communist" and "communism"), it is impossible - unless corruptly, feloniously diverted - to be misspent anything like as grossly or criminally as the high-earning corporate looters of our societies habitually, nay, routinely, waste on their regal life-styles at the expense of their fellow-countrymen. People before money. There's plenty of the latter to around. It's just that there's too much of it in the wrong hands.