There’s no money to be made in disaster preparedness, no billions generated by the military industrial complex…why should they care?

They’ve been exposed.

Luke posted this comment in response to mine in his article lambasting the President for the inept handling of Katrina. Well, they’ve been exposed all right, but in that commercial interests can be served in non-military areas as well.

It’s funny and amazing (in a terrible way, as always) that the Bush Administration is so transparent about these things lately. It’s as if they’ve fully accepted their bastardliness and have no qualms about being completely out in the open about it. Never mind the constant barrage over Cheney and Halliburton. We’ll not only continue kicking money their way in Iraq, but we’ll enlist their “aid” for Katrina contracts too!

At least the GAO will be conducting some audits of the Katrina contracts. Whether those audits will lead to anything is another matter.