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The situation is awful, but it has only been made worse by hesitation, cutbacks, and lack of action on the behalf of the government. People may not want to talk about how and why the situation got as bad as it did, but something needs to be said, because like it or not, people did not receive the help that they rightly deserved. A lot of people are saying it's out of place to talk about politics surrounding Katrina when so many people are suffering, but that's a circular and illogical argument when politics is the very mechanism that could have saved so many lives in New Orleans. If you want to get angry at something or someone, don't get all huffy puffy at the people discussing the problems and politics of this situation, rather, get pissed off that the problems existed in the first place. People are not bringing politics up to distract attention away from the magnitude of heartbreaking stories or to stop people from donating their efforts to the hurricane victims, they're discussing politics because we shouldn't ignore the people who have died pointlessly, because people need to be held responsible.
On a side note, this situation reminds me of the movie The River's Edge.
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