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Cry the beloved New Orleans

Read and weep for the New Orleans kids left to fend for themselves in the devastated city. Then ask yourself if the Bush administration would have done more if this disaster had happened in South Florida or a Dallas suburb.

Comments

Isn't it obvious?

They're black. They're poor. They're not a Republican demographic.

It's ironic that the very people who don't believe in darwinism are the ones who exercise social darwinism: survival of the fittest.

Religion is the stupidest thing in the world.

I guess I'm a bleeding heart liberal becaue I can hardly type through my tears.
I have a teen and cannot imagine how terrible this whole experiance has been for them. They must feel at times like they truly have been forgotten by their goverment and the rest of the country.
How horrible it must be to be a teenager in this type of enviroment. When they need love, support, care and mercy what they get are rules, guards, zero-tolerance "tuck in your shirt" adittudes.
They get the message though no doors on the restroom stalls and no tex/library books that they do not matter.
No wonder some are reacting in violent ways...and I'm willing to admit that some may have been problems before, but really there is a breaking point for folks and some of them may have reached it.

Oh please. Do you really think Jeb and G.W. give a rat's ass about the underprivileged people of Texas and Florida? Maybe the middle class and lower middle class, but people like these kids? Hell to the no!

I just wanted to say that 80%of the city went underwater. That included all classes. Insurance rarely played straight so regardless of class, most of us were left behind.

My white, middleclass, republican mother finally got a fema trailer yesterday so things are looking up. It's only been a year.

As far a politics goes... Individuals care - party's don't!

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