Posted on 08/29/2006 11:23:34 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear Friend,
It's been one year since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, leaving unprecedented devastation in its wake. The nation watched with horror as floodwaters filled the streets of New Orleans. We saw residents breaking through to their roofs to get to safety and crowding into the Superdome just to survive.
And we wondered how we could leave so many people up on those rooftops, wading through toxic water, and waiting in their homes to die. How could we have failed them so completely?
I remember traveling to Texas with my husband soon after the storm to visit with many of those who were evacuated. As I listened to their stories, the pain in their eyes was unmistakable. These were our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans -- and our government failed them.
A year later, the results are still unacceptable. Contracts for rebuilding are going out to big corporations with ties to the administration while the people who live in the Gulf Coast are being shut out of opportunities. We saw people evicted from hotels and clamoring for housing while 10,000 trailers sat unused at an Arkansas airport. FEMA has already wasted $1.4 billion, with much of the money it spends still not getting to those who need it most.
Our government needs to step up and do a better job.
Katrina must be more than a tragedy -- it must be a call to justice. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." As we remember Katrina a year later, we must remind all Americans that justice matters, equality matters, the truth matters, and every single American life matters.
We need to build a better nation from the destruction left in Katrina's wake, one where we no longer leave our fellow citizens behind, not only when disaster strikes but from the everyday tragedies of poverty and injustice, from a lack of opportunity and the absence of hope.
We have much to do -- you and I -- to make sure those in power do what needs to be done. Let us make sure that there is hope, that there is a future out of the destruction. No one should ever be left out or left behind, so let us remember on this fateful anniversary and help build a better nation for every American.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barf!
How many did you take in at your New York mansion??? Here in texas, we have middle class families who are struggling justto get by take in refugees!
Where were you, HILLARY????
"Our government needs to step up and do a better job."
"We have much to do -- you and I -- to make sure those in power do what needs to be done."
She obviously fails to realize that SHE is the government, and she has power. Not all that she thinks she should have, but she does none the less. And she also gives a quick preview of the fact that, like Bubba, she cannot comment on anything w/o mentioning herself.
"Our government needs to step up and do a better job."
Is she from New Orleans?
From Louisiana?
She's from Illinois and has always been a NY Yankees fan, by way of Arkansas.
Especially since she and her co-President husband did such a great job with Floyd.
"Come on...Let's all give ole Dad a real warm welcome with the Monica Shout Out!"
"Mom, This is what a "Gimme a Monica" means!"
What about the people in Conklin, Endwell, Hancock, Walton and the rest of the Susquehanna Basin in YOUR STATE?
Huh?
NOW 2.9% unemployment in LA.
Yeah,I hear tell she moved to New York State about a half hour before the polls opened on election day !!!
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