Current-HJ

The current event that I have chosen for this topic is the situation of the victims of hurricane Katrina. This is an excellent example of the failure of the United States government in the fact that there was not any protection for the small and independant businesses of the affected victims. This was shown in front of the entire nation when the store owners and other victims wanted to stay where they had been transported to because they were able to find new jobs very easily instead of having to go back to New Orleans and having to start from the bottom for the more major corporations, who had at this time started to move into the area for the huge bloom of job opportunity with the carnage left by the catastrophy of the storm. There was not a huge deal about this because the majority of the country believed that it would be good for both New Orleans and the victims to have the help from the companies and corporations who had taken over the area. It is not only the corporations that are taking advantage of the little guys, it is also the U.S government in the fact that the mayor of New Orleans during the frightning storm found the moment as vulnerability and used the hurricane rebuilding efforts to give him leverage to win his re-election bid and stay as the mayor for another four years. There were some though that were furious with the decision of their fellow citizens and thought that new leadership was needed for the still broken down city. In certain areas the water did not clear out for quite awhile, reportedly three to six months after the storm had hit. A peace that was published online asked an elderly man how long it would take for the water in his neighborhood to drain out, he sayed,"The way we are being run, it'll take another four years."(bbs news article). That was what some people actually thought, that it would take longer than expected because the government was running it and was being run too slowly. They were right, some what, the water did take a little longer than expected but it did not take four years. Still, with the large amounts of industry entering the area and the slow reaction of the U.S government are the main reason that the smaller and defenseless to make it more convinient for themsevles to do whatever they feel is correct in the matter at hand. This is one of the reasons we read Huck Finn, this is what twain was trying to get at in that episode. That the government feels that whatever is the obvious good choice for the country, the trial, or the matter at hand. When in reality, it was not.