New Light, New Screwups Who Would Have Thunk it.

If childhood sports taught me anything it is that for every loser there is a winner, someone that came out on top. It is common knowledge that people make money everyday on the heartache and devastation of people. However, I was still shocked to learn just how much some people prospered off of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. I guess that's my never ending optimism showing through, I always have to believe the best in people, it's a real problem.
By chapter 8 of Dyson's book we had already learned that the years before and the weeks following Katrina the government, federal, state, and local, screwed Gulf Coast citizens, especially those who lived in New Orleans, seven days to Sunday when it came to their safety and well being. But, chapter 8 brought to light a whole new set of screwing over that was done.
I was horrified to learn of the amount of carpet bagging that was done following the weeks after Katrina. My sister, the history major, kindly reminded me that during every reconstruction throughout history comes the leeches ready to suck up every dollar that they can. And, suck up every dollar they did, by way of government contracts and home purchases. They left the victims with less than nothing walking away with their pockets lined in blood soaked gold. But, I wondered on the last page of the chapter what can be done now? The contracts have been signed, the homes purchased, the lives destroyed. How do we make right what so unjustly happened to the people long after the waves of Katrina washed away their homes.