Nice comment from Sean Penn. He was interviewed by the ITV reporting
team in New Orleans where he has been doing real voluntary work not
camera shoots as certain politicians have seen fit to do.

Sadly they will not be showing the interview until I am at work. They
did show the clip where the actor was asked to compare the efforts of
the president and he lost his cool saying that the dolt was a disaster
like the one that had just hit the area.

Having said my fill of political nefarious deeds there is a similar
problem with inertia over here where a tornado struck a town in the
centre of England.

5 weeks later housing authorities are doing nothing about their houses
or for the tenants who are still living in premisses deemed
uninhabitable. The teneant meanwhile, having nowhere else to go are
still living in these storm damaged houses.

Having a social service like ours there is no neighbourliness that the
US is famous for where after a tornado everyone in the area chips in to
help. Swings and round abouts I suppose.

Which is OK where the social services are up to the job. Apparently
apathy and criminal negligence is not confined to the US federal
government.