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'In declaring Wednesday a day of prayer in the state of Louisiana, Blanco asked residents to ask "that God give us all the physical and spiritual strength to work through this crisis and rebuild." '
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina/index.html
Is it me or...shouldn't the governor have something a bit more practical to offer residents?
There's a cynical side of me that is thinking, ah, now the US will get more of a sense of how the 3rd world lives, and how people can be refugees in their own country - have homes that they can't return to, have water that they can't drink, and have gangs looting their businesses.
I wouldn't wish any of this chaos on anyone. But it's hard to conceive living through it (as people do regularly in poor countries) until it happens at home.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina/index.html
Is it me or...shouldn't the governor have something a bit more practical to offer residents?
There's a cynical side of me that is thinking, ah, now the US will get more of a sense of how the 3rd world lives, and how people can be refugees in their own country - have homes that they can't return to, have water that they can't drink, and have gangs looting their businesses.
I wouldn't wish any of this chaos on anyone. But it's hard to conceive living through it (as people do regularly in poor countries) until it happens at home.
