National Crisis

Are we a nation divided? Between the haves & the have nots? Between the Americans who "get it" & the ones who don't?
OR is it the ones who "get it", the ones who don't and the ones who just plain don't care? Don't care because they don't NEED to "get it", they already have everything they need, so to hell with everyone else.

Take New Orleans, for example, a city devastated by a weather disaster. The "haves" had to struggle to get out of town, clean up the mess, try to rebuild their businesses. But, the "have nots"? Hurricane Katrina only exacerbated their plight.
They didn't struggle to get out of town, they struggled to get out of their houses alive. Wikipedia shows a death count of 1,836 people from Katrina, most of those were indigent & poor & minority. They have not rebuilt most of their homes, if they had them. Most people were bused far away and do not have the resources to return and those who are, have no resources to rebuild. In addition, there are no FEMA trailers set up for these people to live in, so they can stay there & try to rebuild; no shelters. However, there IS a plan to bulldoze those homes. They are being sought under eminent domain by the "powers that be".

This is NOT new! The elite have ALWAYS, since the beginning of money, been trying to make more of it at the expense of those who have none, or are uneducated.
And when disaster hits, the elite bounce back; the poor get screwed even more.
New Orleans Defendants Lost in Legal Swamp -- In These Times discusses some of these issues.

This is just one city. Every city in America has poor and uneducated. And every city there are people who have the resources to help with that.

We are the richest country in the world. What we do with that fact is what will define us long after we are all gone.

Peace,
Deanna