Originally published September 23 2005
Lackluster response to Katrina to be expected after military spending, columnist says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
According to Intervention Magazine columnist Stewart Nusbaumer, the poor response to Hurricane Katrina was to be expected as a result of the diversion of massive amounts of funds toward the Iraq conflict and tax breaks for the wealthy.
"It's come home to roost," my mother used to say.
That was her way of explaining the unexplainable.
Well, it has come home to roost in America -- mostly in New Orleans.
And in all this horrible mess, where is the finest medical system in the world?
They are not in New Orleans -- I suspect they no longer are in America.
When a nation dramatically increases its military budget and slashes its taxes for the wealthy which drives up the federal deficit, someone has to pay.
In this America, those paying are military veterans, poor folks, senior citizens, and regular workers.
In Iraq we unleashed horror and destruction on a country suffering under despotism, and Americans turned a blind eye to the nasty wrong being done in our name.
Just the other day, with nearly a thousand dead Iraqis, Americans barely gave it a thought as they sat glued to their televisions in total absorption of Hurricane Katrina.
When a nation goes to war on lies and deceptions, when morality is pushed aside for political advantage, when honorable veterans are thrashed by Chickenhawks who never served, when poor Americans are told Iraqis are more important, when education is reduced because more bombs must be bought, when hope is too expensive except for the wealthy, don't be surprised that morality is scarce.
When injustice flies all around, anger is sure to follow.
And when anger whirls in a nasty storm, violence erupts.
The corporate media was busy stalking the Martha Stewarts of celebrity, the politicians were all at fundraising dinners, and the preachers were busy building ego mega-churches.
But the poor were battered by America's raw, unforgiving capitalism, then soaked and blown around by Katrina, so they took advantage of a nasty situation.
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