The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

Box:
There Are None so Stupid as Those Who Will Not Remember

May 19, 2008

The First Lady, Laura Bush, waxed indignant against the Myanmar junta–that it was late to warn about the cyclone and it didn’t help the population to face the terrible consequences.

She practically said it–that the same thing could never happen in the United States. Apparently she has no memory of what happened as Hurricane Katrina approached the area of New Orleans. Nor did the First Lady seem to remember the way the government ignored experts who had warned about the fragility of the levees holding back the Gulf waters.