It has been revealed that post-Katrina New Orleans is desperate to recover from the tremendous damages that city suffered nearly two years ago as a result of Hurricane Katrina. With the admission by Ray Nagin, the city's mayor, that New Orleans is now seeking aid from five different nations (which it refuses to identify at this time), some are joking New Orleans has become "Third World."
But is that funny? It would be a hilarious fucking joke if New Orleans wasn't still part of the richest nation on Earth. But is it? While the estimated damages to the Crescent City exceed $1 billion, it has received only slightly more than half of the paltry $320 million dollars promised it by FEMA.
Dada confesses curiosity as to the sources for outside aid New Orleans is seeking. What if it's from Venezuela that thumbs its nose at Bush? Or France, whom we denigrated for lack of support of our war plans for Iraq? Maybe it's from one of the co-owners of the United States, Japan or China? Or--God forbid!--what if it's from one of the poorer nations in the western hemisphere--like Cuba? Or, the absolute worst nightmare, it's from all five of these!
Could you imagine the laughter and humiliation that would trigger in all nations of the First and Third Worlds? Now that would be a fucking joke. Perhaps that's why New Orleans prefers to keep its aid sources anonymous. Because rather than being hilariously funny, it would be a sad-assed comment on the "greatest nation on Earth," wouldn't it?
3 comments:
Didn't both Hugo and Cuba volunteer NOLA aid the day of, or the day after, Katrina & were refused? As in: you gotta lotta nerve trying to foist your filthy furhin aid off on the world's greatest damn democracy & if you don't believe us, we'll send Kissmyassinger down there to explain it all to you commies.
Hmmm, one of the 5 secret nations has gotta be France, what with their ancestral ties to NOLA culture. And now that they've got a brand-new god-luving bush-suck-up leader over there, we may even deign to recognize their efforts. ya think? ~~ D.K.
Yes, you are correct. In fact, I think FEMA was the third to offer its wonderful "aid" to NOLA, just behind Cuba and Venezuela.
Thanks for the correct spelling BTW. All these years I've been spelling it "Kissinger" and knew somehow that just didn't look right. But it not only looks better, it sounds perfect too. (Geez I wish I'd had that back on campus in the 60's!)
I suspect sarcasm in your campus comment. You mean you never held (or beheld) any 60-70's signs that said, "Tricky Dick can Kissmyassinger" ?!! Could it possibly have been a local phenom in my neck o'ta woodz? ~~ D.K.
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