Proud American?

The title says it all. For the first time in my life I'm questioning whether I'm proud to be an American citizen. For the better part of the last two nights I've been watching Spike Lee's documentary on HBO about Hurricane Katrina and its affect on the City of New Orleans and its residents. The people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have been put through the worst kind of hell imaginable. Losing their homes, friends, families and everything they've worked for for most of their lives. And what has our government done to help? Not much. The levees around New Orleans were not built properly and it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. The Army Corps of Engineers has had chances over the last 40 years to do something about the levees, to rebuild them properly and yet nothing was done. What did they think was going to happen in a city surrounded by water? When you build a protection system that can't stand the worst storms it's like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound.

Our government has failed the City of New Orleans. It will never be the same. Shame on them.

What happened to the government of "By the people, for the people". When did it become so complacent? We can't go on like this as a country. The political process in the country of ours needs to be blown up and started over.

Something needs to change.