I would be amiss if i did not mention the terrible destruction that the hurricane caused down south. I am watching the TV in the lobby through my open blinds and see pictures of flooding, houses covered, rescues of people from the tops of their homes, arial shots of neighborhoods all up to the roofs in brown water. It's horrible. The French quarter in New Orleans is flooded(they escaped the actual storm yesterday but got flooded today), Mississippi's coast is a mess and millions of people are homeless. This is too much.
I am a Republican and an optimist but right now i am questioning how our governement is going to handle all of this. Too many people all over the country feel that if it doesn't affect them then they just go about life---like it was a miniseries on TV, not a tragedy that took lives and homes. This is true with the war, with poverty, with everything wrong with this country and the world. What can we do?