US president George W. Bush suffers from PVS while New Orleans drowns

This is happening in the most powerful country of the world, a country that spends $5.6 billion dollars a month invading Iraq and sells $12.4 billion dollars in arms in a year.
But this is also the United States that does not have resources to help all those affected by the hurricane Katrina.

In addition to this, they have a president who is permanently on vacations (more than 100 days a year!) … which does not allow him to react suitably. We suppose that he is at the moment going through PVS (post-vacational syndrome) … the time that it takes for a person to resigning him/herself to mediocre destiny and let him/herself succumb to the anesthetic effects of daily routine.

At the beginning of August, the Louisiana National Guard complained publicly that most of their equipment was in Iraq?

ABC news local affiliate said that tens of amphibious vehicles, jeeps Humvee, airships and generator units were outside the country … with particular emphasis on these facts as the reason for their low participation in the prevention and performance activities in the Katrina hurricane crisis.

Meaning … that the US government was very much aware of the situation and, even so, failed to plan for contingencies that have since befallen the stricken areas.

The (US) National Guard has participated in rescue operations and maintenance of order in the disaster zone … but about six thousand members of the Louisiana and Mississippi Guard had to watch the catastrophe from 11,200 kilometers away … in Iraq.

40% of the Mississippi National Guard and the 35 percent of the Louisiana Guard are in Iraq … isn’t the current emergency sufficient excuse to bring them home?

Most definitively, I do not understand how this is happening in such a rich and powerful country … and I do not talk here about an act of the nature, but about a US government that was not prepared to face the consequences to reduce the disastrous effects on human lives in their own back yard.

In my humble opinion, what is worse is that the US government is putting greater emphasis on materials lost instead of the amount human lives lost.

Well, we already know that the outcasts from society are those who have always suffered … and will continue to suffer while we do not understand that their pain is also ours.