EXTRA POST: Hurricane Katrina

After spending the last week focused on Hurricane Katrina I have found that my views on the matter have completely switched. I was extremely disappointed seeing how America handled the situation. It is absurd that it took five days to get help. Our government chose to deal with the politics of the matter before taking action. This resulted in far more deaths, mal nutrition because of the lack of food and water available in New Orleans and an increase in crime. Their primary concern should have been saving lives. I hope that America has learned from this situation for the future. The whole event was very poorly planned and executed. Although the government issued a mandatory evacuation, they didn’t offer ways for the poor and elderly to evacuate. Evacuation can be very costly and because there are a large percentage of underclass residents in New Orleans there should have been buses available for these people. It really disappointed me that America offers aid to many other countries but when our own citizens are in need they weren’t there to help them.