A Turkey Down in Tornado Alley

You thought Katrina was bad? How much do you know about last week's tornado down south?

Look at it theoretically for a minute. In Katrina there were two main forces at play:

1. Katrina was one hell of a storm--ripped up New Orleans like Satan himself.
2. FEMA's paralysis and the Federalist bullcrap of American politics

Now if we look at what happened down south recently:

1. Again, one hell of a storm
2. ravaged multiple states, so there's no fuss--it is a national issue
3. budget, budget, budget...with the government shutdown averted by an 11th hour
    "compromise" there are still huge gaps in programs...FEMA included
4. military budget is soaring...especially with us fighting not one, not two but three wars (remember
    when Obama told us in 2008 that we would get out of Iraq and won a Noble Peace Prize for it, JOKES!)

Man, I would NOT want to live in that Missouri-Alabama-Tennessee hellhole! (No offense to the wonderful
people of those three states.) It definitely looks bad...and there may be no avoiding it. Either the rebuilding effort is going to affect the entire country or the country is going to affect these states. So it comes down to one question: sacrifice of the whole for the few or the few for the whole? A classic dilemma that will not end good either way from my understanding of the past 300-some years.

The cleanup and the tally from last week’s devastating tornadoes across the South continued over the weekend as federal and state agencies moved quickly to help the thousands of people left homeless.Skip to next paragraph

Aware that this was the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – and of the criticism former President Bush felt for an inept federal response and what seemed to be personal disinterest – President Obama dispatched top administration officials following his visit to the area Friday.
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills were all due to visit devastated areas in Alabama and Mississippi on Sunday, according to FEMA. More>