The "COST" of Katrina???

[Lin]

Please tell me how it came to this? I'm not referring to the blood-thirsty money-hungry power-insatiable administration, (but how 'bout that huh?) Not even talking about the stolen election, immoral war, profiteering (halliburton- blackwater) torture, & of course the seduction of poorest, most vulnerable among us to BE cannon fodder for this seemingly inhuman regime.

No, today I'm just wondering about the AFTERMATH-OF-KATRINA, asking somebody s-o-m-e-w-h-e-r-e to tell me how we have come to the point where we see our own moms&dads brothers & sisters, grandparents, c-h-i-l-d-r-e-n, suffer so long, so hard, some finally dying, then, floating in the streets and....and then...nothing, or C.Y.A. -WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? The only news is: what will it COST? where will the MONEY come from? IT really _is_ all anyone cares about isn't it? The greasy filthy piece of green paper means far more than the flesh & blood that lay rotting in southern states today....doesn't it? WTF?????

Help me because I can't understand, do people think this coudn't happen to them? Is that it? Is it that corporate media have been the "haves" so long that they can't even i-m-a-g-i-n-e what it's like? Don't want to? The "have-nots" don't have a voice, not even have a representative voice do they?

Seen some apathy, but thought this would be different, so far it's not. I am truly at a loss.

[sando]

1. The cost

The problem is that most of the have nots (middle class) don't seem to have enough sense to know they really are have nots. So they aren't all that outraged, as it really hasn't had time to hit them in the pocket book yet. But it will this winter in those red states where it gets really cold and stays cold all winter long and their natural gas bills have tripled. The other thing is that the only thing we do hear about "the cost of Katrina" as being simply a dollar and cent issue. We've heard how much money Congress approved for rebuilding but we haven't seen the scenes of families grieving the loss of their familiy memebers, friends and neighbors. Until the media puts a face to the grief of not just one man but thousands of faces then people will just seems to see this in terms of a dollar amount.