$85 Million in Katrina supplies is only the beginning.

As federal funds are finally pouring into New Orleans, don’t you feel that, somehow -over time - we’ll see even more complaints of ineptness, incompetence, ignorance, and just plain BS that’s taken place since Hurricane Katrina, just as we’ve seen revelations of the same during and immediately after the storm and ensuing floodwaters that devastated Louisiana, Mississippi, and other areas.

In contrast, oversight and accountability is in demand as another American tragedy unfolds. Disaster survivors in Iowa, Missouri, and other parts may be only just beginning to feel it.

Along with the hurt, the sense of abandonment, fraility of life as you know it, despair, hopelessness, anger, depression, and instability that all come with life after a natural disaster in America.

Yet, how much worse off would we be if we had not even a hint of stability, no government able to even eventually offer proper and necessary help, no oversight and accountability, no compassion among each other, and no hope for help?

$85 Million in Katrina supplies could very possibly help more disaster victims now than were helped in 2005, simply because there may be less disaster victims that need it. But it’s still symbolic of many things - both bad and good - that make America the great country that it is.