In America

by Joy-Ann Reid:

...We, who spend less than 1 percent of our gross national product on the world's poor, and dwindling sums on our own, with every budget and every fat corporate tax break, seem not to have enough money to save 15,000 Americans in New Orleans. Congress has offered $10 billion -- two and a half weeks' worth of war in Iraq. Is this who we are? Is this America?