Some friends of ours, Anna and Josh, are moving from Seattle, Washington to Mississippi. Josh is in a coast guard man and got to choose 40 places he would like to be stationed at including Puerto Rico, maybe it was Puerto Rico, definitely somewhere tropical sounding...but Ole Miss was not on that list but he was apparently "the most qualified" to be stationed there. Cool now we have an excuse to go to Mississippi for whatever reason someone wants to go to Mississippi. That's the background for the upcoming rant.
Mississippi is close enough to the gulf to have been severely effected by hurricane Katrina and Anna and Josh are explaining that if you look their house up on Google maps that there is a FEMA truck right next to their soon to be residence. A FEMA truck. Hurricane Katrina happened in 2005. I understand that Google maps is not always super up to date, so I got to researching the aftermath and it turns out that indeed the Gulf cities are still being rebuilt six years after the hurricane. I have a point to this rant; wait for it.
If after six years America, the richest nation in the world, cannot rebuild one coast of the nation, what possible hope is there to achieve any of the Millennium Development Goals in a timely fashion? You want to eliminate poverty and hunger ALL AROUND THE WORLD but you can't help the East coast rebuild after almost a decade? The joke is on us I guess. Good one.
Mississippi is close enough to the gulf to have been severely effected by hurricane Katrina and Anna and Josh are explaining that if you look their house up on Google maps that there is a FEMA truck right next to their soon to be residence. A FEMA truck. Hurricane Katrina happened in 2005. I understand that Google maps is not always super up to date, so I got to researching the aftermath and it turns out that indeed the Gulf cities are still being rebuilt six years after the hurricane. I have a point to this rant; wait for it.
If after six years America, the richest nation in the world, cannot rebuild one coast of the nation, what possible hope is there to achieve any of the Millennium Development Goals in a timely fashion? You want to eliminate poverty and hunger ALL AROUND THE WORLD but you can't help the East coast rebuild after almost a decade? The joke is on us I guess. Good one.
Jeff,
ReplyDeleteyou have a funny snese of humor, i love a good sense of humor! I find myself saying dumb funny things all the time...it's just great when you find someone who isnt afraid to laugh back! :)
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Excellent point! However....It may sound a bit cold but I can't believe that "we" are even rebuilding in an area like New Orleans. It's below sea level for crying out loud. The ocean WILL win that battle every time and this will happen time and time again.
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