Katrina victims still suffer

The Bushy administration's inaction to help victims of Hurricane Katrina is well documented, but they haven't been idle. They immediately made efforts to ensure that corporations and donors were able to make obscene profits from the suffering of others and allowing them to further loot the treasury. Rather than moving to give hiring preference to the the tens of thousands of out of work victims who have lost everything and desperately need employment and income, they instead waived rules to allow companies to hire illegal immigrants, and waived the law that required any federally funded contractor to pay the prevailing wage of the area they work in. They let no-bid vastly inflated, name your price bids to corporate cronies, and as if making 5 or 10 times the normal profit they'd usually make wasn't enough, they had to allow them to take advantage of desperate workers and pay them peanuts, thus inflating their profits even further.

The death, suffering, and loss of thousands and thousands of predominately poor people has turned into a field day for the greedy, aided and abetted every step of the way by Bush.

What sort of business, in response to such suffering in the country that has allowed them to thrive and prosper, goes into the situation grabbing with both hands as much as they possibly can, seeking to make a killing out of a national disaster? Is that the patriotism they so loudly crow about?