I contributed to relief for victims of Katrina

I contributed to Catholic Charities to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Now it’s your turn. Or you can contribute to one of the fine charities that Glenn has linked to.

Click on the letter to read about what Catholic Charities is and will be doing in this emergency. Their niche is long-term recovery and, believe me, the Gulf Coast will be a long, long time in recovering.

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  • Chuck You Farley Link

    No way. they had warning. They are in that mess because they didn’t bother moving when they had advanced warning. They are below sea level and it has been expected that New orleans would get flooded due to that fact.

  • Here’s what I think about it, Chuck. I think that compassion requires a response during the emergency regardless of whether the people were stupid or just unfortunate. I suspect that most of the folks in the Superdome are the people who were in very difficult straits: the sick, the old, the indigent.

    There’s also going to be a middle term period after the first week or so when things will be very, very tough. And that’s the period I’m looking at.

    After the emergency—maybe a different story. That’s where the hard thinking will come in.

  • Very noble, Dave! I gave thru the Red Cross’ National Disaster Fund, hope that’s effective!

  • From Glenn comes this quote:

    “This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that everybody who had their health, had money and had a car, they left.”

    Donations are not just a hand out to victims. This money allows other sources of money to be freed up for other uses. If the argument is that New Orleans shouldn’t be helped because it was (and I use that word advisedly) between a river and a lake in a hurricane prone region and thus on its own, should we abandon relief operations to anyone living on a fault line? Evacuate Florida?

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