2005 - 09-01-05

Let's shuck right down to the cob: If there were
a contest for the two most corrupt cities in the United States,
New Orleans and Miami would be duking it out for top position.
The governments of both Miami and New Orleans are both so incredibly
corrupt, if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. But,
as corrupt as the governments of those cities are, there are
hundreds of thousands of other people who live in those areas
who are honest, decent, God-fearing people, who do their best
to do whatever they can to make the world a better place.

So, how do we help the people of New Orleans,
Biloxi, and Gulfport? Do we send a check to the Red Cross and
allow them to spend it any way they choose?

Even if any governmental agency did want to send
a check to the afflicted people, it was pointed out on the news
this morning, there are no banks within a number of miles where
they could cash those checks. There are no ATM machines. There
are no supermarkets. There are no check cashing type businesses.

Even if those people could get a check... and
even if they could cash those checks... there's not even any
place to spend the money. No Wal-Mart's, no K-Mart's, no Home
Depot's, no Lowe's, no Publix's, no Winn Dixie's, no Chevron's,
no Amoco's, and by the most recent estimate of the mayor of
New Orleans...

There Will Not Be Enough Electricity

To Illuminate A Single Light Bulb

In That City For At Least

12 To 16 Weeks!

What should we do? How can we help these people?
The truth is, I don't know.

At least I don't know yet.

If any of you have any ideas about this, I'd like
to hear them. I personally feel the pain of the people who are
suffering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I, too, would
like to help to the best of my ability. But right now, I just
don't know how.