While Bush is preoccupied with what to do about the mess he has created in Iraq New Orleans continues to suffer. The city of the forgotten has been forgotten again. In September while parts of the city Bush made another of his controlled and staged appearancesand..
and said:We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action." More than a year later the population of New Orleans is less than half what it was before the storm. Very little of the billions of dollars allocated by the federal government actually reached the needest victims.
So while the rest of the country goes on with their holiday plans. While Bush flys off to his dry, clean, warm ranch in Texas the lights are out on New Orleans. Good Night New Orleans...
Good Night New Orleans
Silent night, holy night.
All is quiet on
dark empty street after
street. The
city of saints,
now a town of ghosts.
Abandoned by their
country.
Silent night, holy night.
Round yon virgin mother and
child. Once both were tender and
mild. Now hard and
hallowed out by
their daily battle.
They sleep huddled in
their broken house. No
heavenly peace tonight.
Where is love's pure light
for these meek and
timid? For the
poorest among us
on this night?
When will the dawn of
redeeming grace shine
once more upon the
forgotten souls of
this city that drowned?
Silent night, holy night.
No heavenly peace
tonight.
No heavenly peace
ever again.