WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

Let me just start off by saying WTF! WTF! WTF! I don't understand our country sometimes and some of the things we do. Recently, we have been hit by one of the largest hurricanes in history, Hurricane Katrina. This one hurricane has made one of our major and oldest cities turn into a 3rd world country overnight. My question is how? How did New Orleans get to this point. This has been the poorest effort to save lives and restore order in a city I have ever witnessed in life. We have people who have been without any type of food, water, or shelter since the occurrence of the hurricane which hit the area on late Sunday night, Monday morning. Since the time that the hurricane hit, it looks as if nothing has been done.

I purposely did not watch any news for a couple days - one, because I didn't think I could bear to see the suffering of these people, so I kept my watching of the news to a minimum. Then Wednesday night I finally watched a CBS news 48 hours special and I was surprised to see what was going on in New Orleans. We have switched our priorities from picking up bodies and rescuing citizens to stopping the looting. What kind of s#$% is that. The whole reason that people are looting and acting so violent in the first place is because they feel abandoned by their the country that is supposed to care and protect them in these kinds of situations and they are doing what they have to do to survive - get food, clothes, and water. There are some people who are stealing for the wrong reasons, but look at the situation they are in (similar to Iraq - but I will leave that alone). These people are surrounded by death and disease and you ask them to be patient. Anyone under these circumstances would be frustrated and angry. If I was stranded on a bridge, with no food, water, clothes (except for what I have on my back), and saw helicopters flying over me or trucks driving past me not picking me up, that would piss me off too. If we start some type of rescue effort for these people then I am pretty sure some of this looting will stop. They could at least try to get some type of communication to these people that help is on the way. But that leads to my next question - when will help get there?

It is really hard for me to believe that President Dumbass (sorry Mary) can't deploy troops in helicopters to take these people to dry land where they can have food and water and be treated for what ever disease most of them probably have now. I grew up on a military base and I know we have the resources, so why are we not using them?

This is a sad situation and it is hard for me to believe that we as a country cannot do more than what we are currently doing. True, the people there were warned to evacuate and now they are in a horrible situation. But when you tell a child not to go to far into the water in a pool and he does and starts to drown, do you leave him there? No, you jump in and help him. These people need help, and the government should be the ones to do that - they have the power and the resources. Many people have lost the faith and respect of our government - if they are to ever restore order and gain the respect of many American citizens they better act fast. We do rescue missions and help other countries around the world everyday, why is it taking so long to help the people in our own home? I'm out!