Something Other Than High Gas Prices
I felt that a domestic issue other than high gas prices should get some attention. Since I haven’t heard anything about the clean up efforts in the south after hurricane Katrina I decided to look into it. While the message seems to be a little mixed I feel that the clean up efforts should be receiving more attention, especially because the hurricane season will eventually start again. I think we should put more focus on our domestic issues, while it may seem selfish, they are continuing to grow in number and refuse to back down. Or we should focus our attention on global issues that are more important in life than gas like the lack of food and fresh water.Here’s the link for the most recent Katrina article I could find.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/washington/28bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
posted by Anonymous @ 4/30/2006 01:13:00 PM
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We should be focusing more of our attention on domestic issues, despite the growing number of foreign issues that are still alive in our world today. Hurricane season is coming and I've heard that this season could be even worse than the last. It is important to start getting prepared for this and make sure that cities that are in a possible line of impact are ready and have a plan. NBC Nightly News actually did their broadcast from New Orleans this past week to focus and cover the recovery efforts that are still going on (nearly a year later). On one of their broadcasts they read some e-mails that stated reasons why NBC shouldn't be in New Orleans and that the media as a whole needs to drop the story and move on. The number of people who were grateful to the coverage outweighed the negative however, so it is clear that hurricans, Katrina in general, is still a strong domestic issue. I did also hear news that there is the possibility that FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Association) may be abolished in the near future. There was a lot of controversy surrounding the organization and the government's "timely" response during Hurricane Katrina. Hopefully the United States government will come up with a solution to make sure we have plans in place when the next federal diaster hits so we can avoid "the politics" behind it next time.
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