Yeah! What HE said...

This post will sound like a million other bloggers posts this past week, but I have to write it. I am so angry right now. I don't understand how what has gone on in Louisiana has happened in our wonderful country. I am sad, disillusioned, and frustrated. And, I want to help, but don't know how.

How can people be left with no help for not just one day, but 4-5 days? All the while dead bodies lay around them, babies go without food, elderly pass away from the sheer shock and exhaustion of it all. These are people who survived the horrible hurricane, but never knew that was not the worst to come.

I get mad at the reporters who grill these people and get them to tell over and over again their accounts of what happened, and then turn the camera off and walk away. How can they do that? I know they are doing their job, but someone has to help these people! If I did not have two kids, I would want to drive there myself. It is all so awful.

This is happening in America. I keep saying that to myself. I look at the pictures on the screen and hear people being called refugees in OUR country. The saddest part is these are people who had so little to begin with, and now they have nothing and can't even get help to get out of the hell in which they are stranded. They did not ask for what happened to them. It could have just as easily been Galveston, just miles from where I live.

I have a lot of friends who are more liberal than I am, who have bashed the Bush administration over the years while I sat by quietly and listened. I do not find myself strongly associated with a party, but do have some beliefs that fall in both ends of the political spectrum. But, I have to say that what the President does today, not tomorrow, will speak volumes. Because what he should have done yesterday was get on that plane and see the destruction and the lives in peril and make things happen THEN. If the national organizations who are there to aid people cannot manage to work together and get into an area to get people out in less than 4-5 days, there is something wrong. That fault lies not solely on our President. But, between this and 9/11 our country has clear examples as to what needs to be fixed. Something is very wrong. And it makes us more of a target today than we have ever been when we can't save ourselves when a natural disaster strikes.

I have never gotten political on here, mostly because my beliefs are just that--private beliefs and I don't believe in bombarding people with those. But, I can't get over my anger today. And my guilt. For as I sit in my 3,000+ square foot house with air conditioning, and all the clothes and food I could ever need, I think of these people. As I bitch about the price of gas to fill up my ridiculous SUV, I will think about these survivors too.

I say a prayer each time I think of these people. I pray we help them and I pray against the fears I have of crime and disease spreading to my city from all of this. I pray that someone can lift these people up from this devastation and can set them back down without their hearts being filled with complete hate and anger for the hand of cards that life has dealt them and for the way their country did not come and help them right away when they needed it. Most of all, I pray for strength to figure out how I can help them and make a difference to make things better.