Enquiring minds want to know

Why are people who got out of town in cars being put up at motels, courtesy of the Red Cross and other services? Why are people without cars condemned to endure day after day in a foul and fetid stadium? What buses are taking them from the stadium? Whose? Where did they come from? Why weren't they available before the storm struck? Why isn't every military conveyance in the country on its way to storm-disaster sites? Why doesn't the government offer to pay commercial bus services to reallocate their equipment and dedicate it for a few days to transporting people from the stadium in New Orleans to some more decent temporary housing? Why are people who have already spent days in a foul and fetid stadium condemned to spend additional days in yet another stadium? In Houston? Why aren't these poor people being given first priority for decent temporary housing with showers somewhere? Will people observing all this draw any comparisons between life in United States disaster zones and life in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan? Will all the reported rapid restoration of services in Iraq be a pattern for rapid restoration of services in United States disaster zones? What are the home states of the guard and reserve forces now embodying a military presence in New Orleans? They seem to be Caucasian; on the one occasion when we watched some television footage, we observed that the people left behind appear to be of African descent in the greatest numbers, with some elderly Caucasian people and a few poor younger Caucasian people, poverty-stricken if one is to judge by the number of missing teeth. Why is that so? How many refugees can be housed at the "ranch" in Crawford? Just wondering.