Hurricane underscores plight of poor people
We all have been touched and felt the pain of so many people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
It has produced one of the greatest outpourings of help and prayers ever experienced in this country. So many people have given time, money and even their homes to help the many survivors of this major catastrophe.
But this hurricane, one of the greatest disasters this country has ever seen, has brought to light a very distressing situation that always has been present.
This catastrophe has made the underbelly come to the surface — an underbelly that has been known to the government but hidden for many years. This atrocity is what we call poverty.
This president (Bush) has been a cancerous tumor to the plight of the poor and underprivileged. A major example of this is the government's slow response time and its ignoring of warning signs about Katrina.
Another example is his tax cuts for the greedy and for big businesses.
Gregory Bryant
Greensboro
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Gregory, I suppose these people were living in Shangri-la prior to W's tenure? The liberal's "war on poverty" has been a miserable failure and has been brought to light by this disaster. The helpless folks in NO are the picture of what government dependance does to a population.
Posted on September 5, 2006 4:16 PM