FEMA's ass be draggin', where the poor be concerned at least

This just in, federal officials have now determined that trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for use as temporary housing for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, have been emitting high levels of formaldehyde indoors. This is making people really sick, and making them so sick of the bullshit and just being in poor health, that they've lodged complaints with at least seven different law firms that are now suing the federal government for damages. The really sick part about all of this? FEMA was getting complaints about high levels of formaldehyde close to two YEARS ago! Goddamn, if that doesn't show how little the fucking government cares about poor people in New Orleans and the Gulf States - who more than likely don't have any other choice to living in the fucking death traps than sleeping rough, like that dude to the left - then I don't know what else would illustrate the point more forcefully.

Well, except for the farce that is Bushenomics (which is the younger, more retarded brother of Reaganomics), and what happens to many veterans of the Iraq War and the conflict in Afghanistan when they come back to the U.S. What's worse is many of them have to contend with the difficulty of adapting (or maladapting) to their wartime experiences (PTSD).

Not to mention first responders to the impact sites on 9/11; five years later, and Charlie Giles of Barnegat Township, NJ was reduced to fundraising in order to afford to keep his house from foreclosure just a little while longer. The guy's a fucking hero, for fuck's sake! Put himself into harm's way because it was his job to do so in those circumstances, and he's getting pissed on worse than that homeless dude in the photo. (And, hey, if you want to see more outrageous stuff, you should see SiCKO; Charlie Giles isn't the only one who got fucked up the ass by governmental institutions that were supposed to help.)

Anyway, that's enough from me. The point is, while the middle class might feel like it is being systematically destroyed by forces that seem almost completely out of our control, the poor are getting it even worse, and the rich benefit from all of this misery. And you can thank the present Administration in the White House for this. Unfortunately, it looks like their unique legacy will be the gift that keeps on giving. Here's to hoping Obama or Clinton are strong enough to counter this, and get our once great country on the right path again. Thanks for sitting still while I get my rage-on. Peace out.

Edit: Just resized that trailer picture, in the hopes that it's large size will not choke the RSS feed (2/16/08).
Edit #2: Had to remove that large trailer picture; it was slowing down the loading of the blog's front page and seriously slowing up the RSS feed.