Letter: Response result of bad policies

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005 | 9:22 a.m.

In the letters section of your Sunday paper, William W. Moreland wrote that liberals are playing politics with the hurricane disaster. Please tell me how the devastation in the aftermath of Katrina was not a result of the political policies of the Bush administration.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was downgraded from a Cabinet position and placed under the control of the Homeland Security Department, where it could more easily be gutted financially. I believe that was done by politicians. Michael Brown, an incompetent and a buddy of President Bush's, was appointed to lead FEMA. I believe that was done by a politician.

The fact that these types of agencies are gutted financially in the first place is also a result of political policies that are put in place by politicians. Just about everything you do in a given day is possible as a result of political policies -- clean drinking water, paved roads, safe food, protected home, electricity (need I go on?).

So, yes, this post-hurricane devastation and the government's lack of response is, indeed, political. Everything that cognitive people are waking up to as wrong in this country is a result of bad political policies put in place by politicians. I would presume the best way to correct these ills is to work toward removing these politicians through the political process. You know, the process we think is the cure for everyone else's country.

So, yes, let's play politics.

TERESA KROLAK-OWENS