Friday, October 26, 2007

California Wildfires II

The grief counsellors have landed in Southern California. The "healing" has begun. The healing. My god. Haven't these people suffered enough?

Apparently the aid, both State and federal, has been very good. Is it terribly evil of me to think that this is directly related to the fact that a lot of rich white people had their homes threatened? If So. California was as poor and as black as New Orleans, what would be happening now? The place would still be burning.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

For a change, I took the glass half full theory and figured they'd worked it all out after Katrina and didn't want it to happen again. (either that or Bush is scared of Arnie....)

cityofmushrooms said...

california will be fixed before new orleans for obvious reasons

Anonymous said...

Please, these people had great insurance. They never show, nor did the President visit, the poorer areas affected in the backcountry or in the South Bay areas.

Frankly all this patting themselves on the back for behaving better than those in Katrina is so self-serving I can't stand it. These people were not trapped for days with no help in sight. Two completley different scenarios.

The politics surrounding this stuff is so awful I can barely take it. We did bettr than we did four years agon, but we could do better still. I don't know if CNN showed it, but there were rich people in Rancho Bernardo that paid for insurance that supplied private firefighters with some high tech foam to coat their houses for them.

The rest of us? Don't happen to have an extra 10 thousand dollars a year to pay for that kind of protection.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Private firefighters? I didn't know such creatures existed. Like Blackwater for fires. What a country.