“THE” NEWS!It is common today for many of us to be overcome the sheer volume and complex nature of such major news stories such as the floods; the disappearance of college girls at home and abroad. All such cases are plural in nature, but we tend to go along with the media and use one as an example for all. Right now “the“ war is, of course, the Bush One in Iraq. “The” coed is Natalee Holloway missing in Aruba; “the” flood is considered be that portion of “the” hurricane Katrina which brought severe damage to all our Gulf Coast states.
It is a glaring mistake to emphasis any one simply by ignoring it and pretending it has not happened. Such an unfair attitude is wrong in every way – politically, socially, financially and in a moral sense!
An old rural saying from the horse and buggy days has been recycled and put to use: “The wheel that does the creaking gets the grease!” The city – poorly prepared, ineptly staffed and politically patterned to avoid any action which might show past acts to have been less than perfect. Thus bound - leaders hesitated, delayed, and pretended, and came fast moving deluge.
Complaints continue, and show little sign of abating.
The thousands of people who are being victimized by circumstances far beyond their control. As the days go by things have become even more complicated as refugees are moved into their new environment.
The hosts of such a group sent to West Virginia expressed unhappiness in this morning's inner pages news items have been studied the newcomers. It appears that from fifty-three to fifty-five per cent of those sent from New Orleans are felons or have police records. It seems the political clique in New Orleans still has problems they expect other people to solve for them.
It appears the entire Crescent City situation is going to worsen somewhat from different angles before it gets any better.
A.L.M. September 16, 2005 [c338wds]
