In a further display of total disregard for human life, 12,000
Katrina survivor families are being evicted from hotels today. FEMA is
ending payment for hotel rooms for almost 40,000 people. Lawyers are
fighting to stop the evictions, and have been for months.
After being left to die despite early warning of the levee breach
(which the Bush regime lied about), and then being dispersed throughout
the country with little means of survival, this is the latest in a long
line of callous neglect for Katrina survivors. The problem is not
simply “incompetence”, as Congress would have it, but a deliberate
program spelled out by Congressman Baker: “We finally cleaned up public
housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”
(source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/12/katrina.evacuees.ap/index.html)