One of the most despicable examples of social darwinism at work in the history of this great nation.



Just look at the pictures.  Call it bigotry, racism, class warfare, whatever.  If the pathological apologencia can ever get it's head out of it's collective ass long enough to ever want to identify what's wrong with this society instead of justifying its shortcomings, we might, just might see some progress in this country.

Like any addict -- recovered, untreated, or not --, the first step is admitting you have a problem.  When your ideology permits you to believe that the primary role of government is to promote the power, wealth and growth of the powerful and wealthy, then you lose cities and leave those most likely to suffer and die behind. Those who had resources in New Orleans now have little or nothing, but those who had not suffered more, and longer -- unless their suffering came to a quick and (hopefully) merciful end.

I'm reminded of Words like those of Mahatma Ghandi who said, "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."

Churchill said that you measure the degree of civilisation of a society by how it treats its weakest members.

Truman said a society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members.

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members -- the last, the least, the littlest."
~Cardinal Roger Mahony, In a 1998 letter, Creating a Culture of Life

It is said that the worth of society can be measured by the manner in which it treats its weakest member.

"The greatness of any city can be judged by the way it treats its weakest member." You can judge the character and quality of life in a community by how it treats its weakest members

It is said that a civilization is measured by how it treats its weakest members - including, of course, it children.

The greatness of America is in how it treats its weakest members: the elderly, the infirm, the handicapped, the underprivileged, the unborn.
~Bill Federer

"The test of any society is how it treats its weakest members."

"The moral test of any society is how it treats its weakest members."

"A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying,"
~Pope John Paul II

If one considers the observation that the worth and dignity of a civilization is judged by the way it the treats its weakest members, we cannot help but look back in shame at our past.
~Social Justice Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow, A Critical Reflection, By Rudolf Rickes

If what we are going through, and will contiue to go through for years to come in Katrina's aftermath does not once and for all expose the moral depravity of our current political regime of clueless indifference and inequity, nothing will.