August 29, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

DROWNED NOLA: CONSERVATISM IN A NUTSHELL

If you want to see reactionary conservatism in its most condensed state, just look at New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina. We have reached the two year mark of that terrible event. While the Bush administration bails out rich people in the subprime mortgage crisis, New Orleans still swelters and lies broken in pieces. Contrary to what right-wingers say, the "free market" does not and can not solve every problem. Not everything in life should come attached to a profit motive. This article by Walter Moseley is at www.thenation.com:

Not only did our government fail to answer the call of its most vulnerable citizens during that fateful period; it still fails each and every day to rebuild, redeem and rescue those who are ignored because of their poverty, their race, their passage into old age.

The disaster named after the hurricane is not confined to the areas affected. Every emergency room, empty bank account and outsourced life's work could be named. We live in a country rife with ignored and condemned poverty. The rich, high on their great corporate steeds, ride over us believing that they are out of the reach of global warming and its symptoms, of terrorism and dwindling natural resources. When government officials tell them to evacuate, they drive their cars, board their corporate jets or simply climb to higher ground with ease. At this very moment they are looking down on Baghdad and New Orleans, Pakistan and Sudan, you and me. The feeling of invulnerability that these people have is unfounded, but nonetheless it makes them reckless. They take chances and cut corners believing that everything will come out all right. Their delusions of grandeur and ultimate power put us in ever more dire straits.