Friday, October 7, 2011
Are You Kidding Me
Sorry once again that I have been absent. I am the worst at remembering to blog. Which in a way is incredibly funny since I have so much to say. This week my thoughts on the whole situation involving Hurricane Katrina, or as I like to know call the time America showed its ass, is are you kidding me. Well to be fair my first thought was are you shitting me but I'm working on my language in public. So, back to the astounded part. Chapter seven in Dyson, a book that any angry person should read, showed me more then ever before the true incompetence of those involved in this situation. Half way through I really just wanted to scream drive the damn buses in there anyway. Before this class, I always thought that the government excepted help from anywhere that they could, but this week I find out that is not the case. My class and I have argued the point as to whether or not we should have accepted help from other governments, and no matter where you stand I can see both points. However, it should never have been a question about whether or not we accept help from other Americans. If you go a bus, plane, or train we'll take it should have been the cry. No one should have waited twelve hours to hear back from FEMA. In this situation the red tape should have stayed locked inside the draw where it belonged not dangled out for all the world to see. Papers could have been signed in the weeks after, people are who mattered then. By the end of the chapter my cry was fire them all, something I still stand firmly behind.
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The most shocking thing about chapter 7 for me (which I blogged about) was on pg 125 when the doctor was told he had to stop helping the dying woman because he wasn't registered with FEMA. It's almost like the government had moved from a passive incompetence to an active malice against the Katrina victims.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you guys, I was so shocked to hear that our own government wasn't doing more to help its own people, and like Derek said, was almost actively against them. Who tells someone not to give a dying person CPR? It's outrageous.
ReplyDeleteThis is funny. Because as noticed, I was horrible at remembering my blog post as well. I did all I could to catch back up. That second thing that you had me laughing about was Jeeze. "Are you shitting me" Reminded me of my Kanye West post and how afraid I was to post that and how I went back twice after posting it and editing it. Just thought it was funny, although the situation with America showing it's ass isn't funny at all. Though I did laugh at you taking that "shitting" out because of the work on the language, yet "ass" was still there. Not dissing though.
ReplyDeleteJust saying. #Kanye Shrug