I remember when Bush triumphantly declared that Katrina showed the limits of federal government and that these disasters had to be handled through donations and private enterprise. Under our Presidenter's leadership the results are nothing short of expected.
Six months after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast, charities have disbursed more than $2 billion of the record sums they raised for the storm's victims, leaving less than $1 billion for the monumental task of helping hundreds of thousands of storm victims rebuild their lives, according to a survey by The Washington Post.
It has only been six months, yet we are already running out of funds to help support victims of mass destruction (VMDs) because the federal government is not pulling its weight. I wonder what Bush's answer will be when private companies and charities cannot complete the job. I am pretty certain it will be along the lines of "this is not a job for people, only Jesus can save us."
Only an entity as big and powerful as a national government can overcome the problems we have seen as a result of Katrina and provide the necessary services that are not in the interests of private companies and individuals to perform. Only working together as a nation can we overcome hardship, not by selling out to the highest bidder and going it alone.
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