Katrina's homeless

[allalone]

In 1906 when San Francisco had the big earthquake, the government build what were called earthquake cottages in GG Park and 16000 people were housed there as the city recovered. Not fancy and I think the bathrooms and showers etc were in common buildings. But it worked. Or is that too simple for this bunch of greedy bastards?

[efhmc]

1. I have heard that land speculation is already afoot. How is that possible?

[zalinda]

2. Many people will not be able to pay

their mortgage, and will forfeit their homes. A better solution for them is to get what they can for it, or so that is what is probably being told to them. So the disaster real estate ghouls are descending on NO.

zalinda

[applegrove]

3. I don't think American children should spend one day longer in "camps"

of any kind. It is considered wrong when it happens to homeless kids with their faimilies - why would this be any different. They got rid of orphanages too.

[Hidden Stillness]

4. It Was a Society Then; It is All Corporations Now

The difference between then and now, though, was that the disaster then was approached commonsensically, as a terrible suffering of people that we now know about, and can partly solve. We are all together, we can all pitch in to help, etc., like a small town where some are needed, and some have needs.

The situation nowadays with the neo-con cabal, of course, is that they do not want to help, they want to rip apart everything that might have helped you, and give the tax savings to rich people; they have no intention of ever responding. It is not a "mistake" that they did not prepare beforehand, or help you now--they would tell you to fuck off if they could. After all, when Gov. Blanco begged Bush to declare a Federal Emergency and help Louisiana, Bush then took a nap, and then, the next day, went out guitar-strumming, as we saw.

Earlier Government responses to disaster were heartfelt and common-sensical; this disaster-upon-disaster is neo-con fantasy-world-driven, and corporate calculation of costs and effects on "the base," etc.

[OneBlueSky]

5. I saw a newsclip of how military on duty for Katrina are being housed . .

in tent cities composed of those half cylinder shaped tents (I used to know them as Jamesways years ago, when my dad was in the Army) . . . they're large, roomy, and -- get this -- air conditioned! . . .

a logical question would seem to be why can't survivors be housed in multiple tent cities, just like the military? . . . and closer to New Orleans? . . . that would undboutedly be preferable to thousands of people crowded into a mega-shelter, or to relocating New Orleans natives to places like Utah . . . families could live together with a modicum of comfort and privacy, and the whole thing would have less of a diaspora feel to it . . .

the more they separate the African-American community of New Orleans, the less chance it will ever recover as a community . . . if that's even possible now . . .