The new "option for the poor"
From an e-mail exchange with a friend whose daughter escaped New Orleans the Saturday before the hurricane:Him: Isn't the govt. response a national disgrace?
Me (ever the cynic): Disgrace? Naw, poor people are expendable . . . and think of the economic development projects that will be possible when they're gone. Just call it "Bush's preferential option for the poor."
As Jim Wallis of Sojourners wrote before the rescue of those stranded at the Superdome:
The final irony of New Orleans is that the people who normally fill the Louisiana Superdome are those who can afford the high cost of tickets, parking, and concessions. Now its inhabitants are the poor, especially children, the elderly and the sick - those with nowhere else to go. Those with money are nowhere to be seen.
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Sunday, September 04, 2005
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