Giving Kafka A New Meaning!

Personal Opinion:

The Levees, Symbol of Our Concern
And A Metaphor for the Government's Response

Les Aaron

There are 11,000 mobile homes sitting around gathering dust while
folks in New Orleans go homeless; this is a stark metaphor for the
injustice that is being perpetrated on people whose only mistake was
being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
This situation is being exacerbated with the recognition that many
of the local residents have seen no improvement in their quality of
life since the hurricane.

What makes matters a case of smoke and mirrors, is the fact that
over three billion has been allocated as congress pushes New Orleans problems
to the background.

But while the US Army Corps of Engineers goes
about its job of fixing the levees and homes downtown are being demolished,
the irony is that on probing deeper, we discover that the engineers are following
a guideline that goes back to the fifties and the rebuilding they are doing is to bring
the levees up to the standard they were just prior to the last hurricane.

What we have building here is an updated version of Ground Hog Day where all of
the players are condemned to repeating the past seemingly forever.
Will the media go deeper and uncover what's really happening or will we
be destined to see the levees failing over and over again.

As we approach hurricane season, it won't be long before we find out...