It has been four years since the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the wounds have yet to heal. The reaction to those who battled the rising waters still haunt those who survived. Sarge Phelps, who hosts Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge still describes the horror that is continued to be inflicted by the right-wing. The politicization of Katrina needlessly demonized those left behind... the poor, the sick, the elderly.So, I must ask, at what cost do we put our political affiliation before the American people? The price tag, $89.6 billion and folks are still displaced. Between WQRZ ,Sarge, and random reporters we hear little on the progress in Waveland, Mississippi and New Oreleans. The right-wing fringe would rather criticize those stranded than be critical of those in power at the time. Within the $89+ billion, were contracts that were handed out to the likes of Halliburton and Blackwater among others. There is little news on how doctors sped up patients deaths to prevent inevitable drownings and eventual deaths. Dr. Anna Pau has described the horror of being abandoned, and the decisions doctors made on "who goes first?".
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Update: more coverage from Amy Goodman at Democracy Now
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