Here's a crazy idea....

Instead of everyone blaming everyone else about who is at fault for the hurricane unpreparedness, why don't we all just work TOGETHER to get everything back to the way it was. Like they teach you in kindergarten.

Oh wait. That would require maturity and putting aside party lines and doing what is best for The People. Well, F that.

Stupid politicians.

Not everyone hates the US

Anonymous Donor Thanks America for Rescue

The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 7, 2005; 3:03 PM

WASHINGTON -- The anonymous donor turned up at a U.S. diplomatic office and presented an envelope with 1,000 euros (about $1,240) for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

It was a way of repaying a debt to the United States for being liberated by American soldiers from a concentration camp and treated more than 60 years ago, Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, said Wednesday in relating the incident.


The donor was 90 years old, but that is all McCormack would say by way of identification. "This is a person who is not seeking any publicity for this act - which in the time we live makes it even more extraordinary," he said.

"This is a selfless act by somebody who is repaying what they felt was a deeply felt debt of gratitude to the United States," the spokesman said.

This is one of many stories from around the world of individuals being very generous with the American people at a time of need, McCormack said.

"It's extraordinary," he said.

I have been saying this for a while now

As a matter of social policy, the catastrophic lack of response in New Orleans is exceptional only in its scale and immediacy. When it comes to caring for our fellow countrymen, we all know that America has never ranked very high. We are, of course, the only democracy in the developed world that doesn't offer health care to its citizens as a matter of right. We rank 34th among nations in infant mortality rates, behind such rival superpowers as Cyprus, Andorra and Brunei.

But these are chronic conditions, and even many of us who argue for universal health coverage have grown inured to that distinctly American indifference to the common good, to our radical lack of solidarity with our fellow citizens. Besides, the poor generally have the decency to die discreetly, and discretely -- not conspicuously, not in droves. Come rain or come shine, we leave millions of beleaguered Americans to fend for themselves on a daily basis. It's just a lot more noticeable in a horrific rain, and when the ordinary lack of access to medical care is augmented by an extraordinary lack of access to emergency services.

-Harold Myerson, OpEd for washpost.com

You can read the whole story here: The "Stuff Happens" Presidency