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I finally have an answer I can accept as to why our administration waited days to respond to the crisis in Louisiana: Profit. What we see as a national disaster, the Bush administration sees as a way for make more money. As is happening in Iraq, companies with strong ties to our pathetic administration are being handed lucrative contracts for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Over $60 billion is in play here, and the faithful are all set to reap the benefits of hanging with the big boys.

I am sickened by the blatant patronage. While good Americans were in shock at the lack of response, our elected officials were indeed hard at work on the crisis - figuring out how best to make another monetary killing our of the mess.

The priorities of Our Favorite Shrubbery are there for all to see: to destroy in order to let select companies with financial ties rebuild. Has anyone though to look at the stock portfolios of George, Dick and Karl lately? I’ll bet my best cowboy hat that the very same companies reaping the largest government contracts will be represented. Everybody knows that what’s good for the shareholders is good for the company. To my escalating horror, what’s good for the company is killing people.

Where is society going? What is a realistic assessment for the future of our children’s children? What needs to be done to affirm a positive future of this shrinking planet?

Such are the turns of philosophical morosity I experience as I ponder this Fourth Anniversary of That Nameless Event Currently Known As… 9/11

In attempt to answer – or to at least purge my troubled mind – I create yet another wandering philippic. Left of Center: Happy Birthday, 9/11!