Houston is doing a wonderful job. The people are generous and we have
lots of apartment space evidently. We have a good mayor who has a
successful business background. The plan is to move everyone out of
shelters by next week. Will that work, I don't know. The mega and
smaller churches are chipping in.
Houston has its own poor and people
need to remember them. The Houston Chronicle's editorial today was
about Texas providing a month of free medicine to PWAs and birth control
and family planning for women, prescription drugs to any one from the
Katrina zone. It asks about why we aren't providing those benefits to
our own citizens and why there have been so many cut backs in mental
health. Services are set to be restored December 1, but what about now.
None of this is any good if it is just short term. How much of the
country really realizes the extent of this disaster. Will there be a
movement to make the whole country more people friendly. I read where
the Republicans are pushing for school vouchers to be given out so
parents can get their kids into better schools. As in faith based. As
in what? White flight, religious schools are exactly what hurt the
public schools of New Orleans. No, correction destroyed them. All of
you parents who are so determined that your children have the best
chance in the world had better start asking, "At what child's expense?"
Close every private school in this country. Demand that they turn over
their facilities and faculty, administrators to the public sector.
Also demand that reporters be allowed to travel with the body recovery
teams in New Orleans and Mississippi.