Comments on: Katrina’s Children http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:46:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » New Orleans: What a Difference a Year Didn’t Make http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-64686 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:00:27 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-64686 [...] Yet there are poor people in New Orleans. They aren’t necessarily the same poor who lived there before Katrina, but they’re there. Many are illegal immigrants who were lured to New Orleans, often by federal contractors, to do the hard cleanup work for slave wages so the contractors can pocket more of our tax dollars. And now the city’s fragile health care infrastructure is straining to care for a boom of Latino babies being born to mothers who have no health insurance. [...] […] Yet there are poor people in New Orleans. They aren’t necessarily the same poor who lived there before Katrina, but they’re there. Many are illegal immigrants who were lured to New Orleans, often by federal contractors, to do the hard cleanup work for slave wages so the contractors can pocket more of our tax dollars. And now the city’s fragile health care infrastructure is straining to care for a boom of Latino babies being born to mothers who have no health insurance. […]

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-55300 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:24:36 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-55300 Nuevo Orleans ? Nuevo Orleans ?

]]> by: Doug Hughes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-55230 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:08:13 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/12/11/katrinas-children/#comment-55230 As I look at the Katrina issue, I am struck by how FDR would hava approached the problem. Based on how he tried to address the great depression, I think he would have identified in the first 30 seconds that the 2 key components of a disaster of that magnitude is 1) the amount of work that needs to be done and 2) the number of displaced persons now without employment. Making the 2 pieces fit would have been the centerpiece of his solution. And FDR would have recognized that the workers have to be paid a wage high enough for them to get back on their feet. Sadly Bush saw an excuse to cut wages and line the pockets of the wealthy parasites who feed on government projects. As I look at the Katrina issue, I am struck by how FDR would hava approached the problem. Based on how he tried to address the great depression, I think he would have identified in the first 30 seconds that the 2 key components of a disaster of that magnitude is 1) the amount of work that needs to be done and 2) the number of displaced persons now without employment. Making the 2 pieces fit would have been the centerpiece of his solution. And FDR would have recognized that the workers have to be paid a wage high enough for them to get back on their feet.

Sadly Bush saw an excuse to cut wages and line the pockets of the wealthy parasites who feed on government projects.

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