Woody Cavenaugh

The difference was in 9/11 you had the federal government tripping over themselves to offer aid and get great press. Today the federal government (I blame Bush.) is kind of hanging around deciding today to do a little something. I love how Bush met with the governors of Alabama and Mississippi but not Lousianna, I love how the president toured Mississippi and Alabama, but simply saw a bit of Lousianna while flying over to the airport.

I love how idiots like this one blames the nations lack of his own personal conservative morality for what is going on down there. The only difference between being in church in New Orleans and not being in church in New Orleans is the locations of the bodies. Religion and politics have little to do with the weather. I mean you can pray for rain, and Karl Rove can control the weather to some degree thanks to his pact with the devil, but that is neither here nor there.

There are three types of people in New Orleans in overlapping rings, the living, the dead, and the ones who need help. Right now in New Orleans there are people who have been off of their medication for a while, many of those medications are for people with mental problems, some of those medications have dire warnings about suddenly stopping them. And yes, some of those medications are recreational and illegal, they shouldn't have been taking them to start with, and now they aren't, and all of these people are insane right now, and many of them are armed.

The local government and the state government are doing an outstanding job of helping, but they have double duty. Not only do they have to help their people, they have to help themselves, and as one of the poorest states in the United ones they are relying on the federal government who was doing... I don't know what were they doing?

I suspect the federal government is doing a very secret very heroic job of saving that oil! And ok, credit where credit is due, they can afford to let a few thousand people in a poor backwater state die for the greater good of making sure that there is gas for everyone else and their SUV's. Do you know the gas milage of an armored Limo? If there are gas riots in Marthas Vinyard and Malibu then the government might have to flee to a secret location (or maybe france) and nuke the whole country from space (just to be sure.) After that the cool kids (the rich ones) can move back and pick up beach front property at a fraction of the market rate. Import some Mexicans for manual labor and the utopia will be restored.

Why the rant? One, because it feels good, when I was a fat seven year old my theorpist taught me to write down my feelings rather than be angry. In retrospect I think there was a fear that one day I was going to look around the second grade and notice that I could kill everyone around me, but that's water under the bridge. Two, because I can't get over how easy it is to feed a child in Africa for only $.57 a day, yet we can't get a simple bottle of water and an MRE to someone in our own country. Three, when the entire eastern half of NC was flooded in Floyd, there were FEMA trailer parks in place by now and volunteers were already in place doing animal rescues and body recovery. WTF!

I am seeing truly heoric efforts from individuals and small groups trying to help, but I am not seeing it from the Federal Government. I thought this was one of the perks of paying our taxes. Don't tell me that the only reason I am paying taxes is to put fuel in the president's jet and to keep me out of prison? I haven't forgotten the nice highways, and free medical care, I just expect more for my money.

I love my country, but the government really isn't impressing me lately.