Katrina victims are still waiting for relief. The government failed miserably to help the victims of the hurricane and is still failing.

Thousands of people are homeless, mired in federal and state bureaucracies incapable of handling the aftermath of a natural disaster.

Can you imagine what would happen if the terrorists successfully set off a nuclear device in one of our cities? The government is totally unprepared to deal with that kind of crisis.

The infrastructure of the U.S. government fails the people, and will continue to do so. The large entitlement programs designed to help those in need in America are continually under fire while we increase budgets for the military and the Department of Defense to fight wars overseas.

The war at home against poverty has already been lost and nobody cares. It’s too expensive to take care of our own, but the government is willing to borrow and go into debt to fund foreign campaigns that have little chance of success, and that we will eventually withdraw from — leaving the populations we invaded no better, perhaps even worse as they face protracted civil wars. We will have wasted billions of dollars that could have been better spent on our domestic problems, poverty and the lack of health care, for starters.

Bob Katrin