Reply #11: We want help - the only help that is being given is the churches [View All]

our streets are open, there is no one preventing the non-religious and non-corporate folks from coming to help.

No one and nothing has stopped others from setting up a charity that is meant solely for the Katrina/Rita survivors and that would qualify for assistance from the gov under the existing policies, a charity that is not as suspect as those now involved in the efforts.

You want to make a difference, you want to show folks there is something better than the religious and/or corporate efforts, then you have to DO SOMETHING, something more than just bitch and throw your hands up in the air.

I didn't just lose my house and all that I owned, entire communites were destroyed, entire towns - I'm sorry you lost what you lost in a fire, but it is nothing compared to the blanket devastation on the Coast, nothing compared to the horrors faced by the citizens living here.

If you want to change the attitudes, short term and long term, of the people in this area, you have to show them you offer more than what they are being given -- since both you and the democratic party have failed to make an effort, to make that showing, then you both fail and you leave the others you hate and mock to claim what you have handed them on a silver platter.