Millions of Katrina Evacuees in Mobile Homes, Mass Urban Blight ©

• Trailers are temporary housing for hurricane Katrina evacuees. Many ask of the wisdom of this move.  Mobile homes cannot endure category 3 storms; and yet, since Katrina there have been two tempests. Each of these was more powerful than a category three. [Photograph By Rogelio Solis. Associated Press]

The Katrina story is a mess, as is all that George Walker Bush touches.  This “muddle” began a natural disaster and while these can be chaotic, to say the least, they are nothing in comparison to what Georgie Boy can, and indeed, does create.  He can take an adversity and make it into a cataclysmic calamity, and, he has.

Yes, George Bush II is King.  However, he does not have the Midas touch. All he touches tarnishes.

This man does not plan and then act; he reacts.  As a businessman, he had many failed ventures, Arbusto and Spectrum 7 among these.  His success as a President is nominal.  He is considered personable, not professional.  Professionally, he is, as he was throughout his life, a catastrophe.  He creates the same.

We know of Iraq.  We see, hear, and feel the devastation his flawed war policy fashioned. 

United States citizens are acquainted with the idea of military readiness and acknowledge, that thanks to GW, America is no longer prepared for the worst. 

Republicans and Democrats alike deliberate on the deficit and debt. Most admit that, under Baby Bush, these have increased beyond belief.

Many recognize that they were told an untruth in reference to the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. Actually, the plan will cost billions more than the administration “predicted.”

However, we did not know that one man, one White House could be so bold.  Who would have imagined that at a time when the rental vacancy rate is at an all time high nationally, 10.1 percent, President Bush would declare there is a need for mobile home ghettos.  Who would think that mass urban blight would be the recommendation, the plan, or the proposed policy? Those that care to watch "W" closely would.

Baby Bush is a product of his environment; the apple does not fall far from the tree.  George W. is his mother’s son.

When asked of possibly assimilating the poor into the greater society, young Bush can proudly say, ‘Mother would not.’  The “white-haired-wonder” knows; there are the classes and the masses.  The two must never mix. 

Barbara Bush does not want the unfortunate in her backyard; she said so during an interview on National Public Radio’s MarketPlace.  The former First Lady, and mother to Junior said the relocation of evacuees to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.  Nevertheless, she continued, "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality, and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."  This statement strongly infers that it is not working well for the wealthy that live in the Lone Star state.

Barbara and those born with silver spoons in your mouths want to help the needy, though only temporarily, and only from afar.  They do not wish to integrate their fair cities; they have no desire to help create a new and better life for the impoverished or indigent.  The well-off want to present a posture of caring and sharing, but only for a moment, a month, maybe two, and nothing more.

Just as the prosperous have done for years, they want to insolate the poor and insulate themselves.  The rich do not want to be reminded of the underprivileged. They want to place them on a reservation, one removed from their own luxurious residences.  Integration may be an idea; however, it is not ideal if you are white, “right,” and moneyed, as GW and his clan are.

Therefore, the Bush boy proposes, Katrina survivors will to be moved from one slum to another.  Mobile home trailer parks will house the evacuees.  They will be given the means to survive, and not the opportunity to thrive.  Why, because the King has spoken. Long live the king and those of his ilk, and they will live long.  For they have power and prosperity.  However, what will become of those that do not have either?

• Please reflect upon Washington Post article,  Critics Fear Trailer 'Ghettos', By Jonathan Weisman
• Please read another opinion on the Bush legacy. Read of his consistent ineptitude. Arianna Huffington, of AlterNet, writes Deja Vu All Over Again

You might wish to access some of the sources separately.
• Poll: USA is losing patience on Iraq, By Susan Page, USA TODAY
• Rand Corporation offers a report on Emergency Preparedness and Response
• The bucks start here: Bush's plan raises questions, Rebuilding costs likely to increase federal deficit, By Richard Wolf and Judy Keen, USA TODAY
• Debt Clock
• Medicare Drug Benefit May Cost $1.2 Trillion By Ceci Connolly and Mike Allen, Washington Post
• Houston, we may have a problem, Monday, Barbara Bush on September 05, 2005, MarketPlace
• Bush Name Helps Fuel Oil Dealings, By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano, Washington Post
•  The Buying of A President, The Center for Public Integrity
• Some call mobile homes inconvenient shelter, Residents fault their access.  Boston.com