I never knew there was a Gulfport, Illinois until the levees failed there too. We all heard what good ol' Rush Limbaugh had to say about the comparison of the flooding in the midwest with what happened in New Orleans three years ago. The man should be deported to Siberia and denied access to any media input. In a less divisive way, Mark Folse writes that the backbone of America is the Mississippi River basin in more ways than one.
"I want to believe that the people of Iowa and Illinois will make common cause with the people of Louisiana and Mississippi, will insist that things change, will demand that the United States once again be about its people, will be a nation and not just an economy: of the people, by the people, for the people, never to perish from the earth.
People in the Midwest with flooded out lives have no time to think of this right now, but the eyes of the nation are upon them. Those of us who have walked that path must tell this story, must demand on their behalf and for all of us–even as we reach out to help our brothers and sisters in the baptism of the flood–that the levees must not fail again somewhere else, that the slow motion, disaster-without-end lived in New Orleans and the whole hurricane coast from Cameron to Gulfport should not be repeated there or anywhere."
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