Senator Mark Pryor writes on his website that there are thousands of FEMA trailers sitting parked hundreds of miles away from New Orleans in (HOPE – Yes – HOPE!), Arkansas because President Bush refuses to sign the papers to deliver them. Why – because FEMA will not deliver trailers to a flood plain and New Orleans is in one. Senator Pryor is asking for a one-time exception to the rule, and hasn’t gotten it. Instead the citizens for whom the trailers were made are still living in tents 6 months after Katrina. It is my understanding that 4 and 1/2 million dollars had already been spent to prepare the area to receive the trailers.

What utter ridiculousness!

I say, don’t ask for a one-time exception. Instead, ask that the rule be dropped. New Orleans isn’t the only city in a flood plain. Heck, we can’t even up-date our railroad infrastructure - as has the rest of the West and Japan - much less move entire cities and their populations to higher ground.

This situation proves but one thing. We are increasingly a self-satisfied and pious, heartless and stingy people, and this president is the perfect example of our niggardly behavior.

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