I’ll never forget this, either. I know I’m probably overloading on Hurricane Katrina today, but I think for many people it was the first time they actually got a good look at the Bush family and how they operate. Everything they do is to benefit…..THEM. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten the Gulf coast, and the horrendous incompetence of the Bush administration in handling the crisis. I have to wonder, though…..is it incompetence, or is it that they really just don’t give a shit about these Americans? Maybe both……

From the Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2006

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.

Since then, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight area schools that took in substantial numbers of Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

“Mrs. Bush wanted to do something specifically for education and specifically for the thousands of students flooding into the Houston schools,” said Jean Becker, former President Bush’s chief of staff. “She knew that HISD was using this software program, and she’s very excited about this program, so she wanted to make it possible for them to expand the use of this program.”

The former first lady plans to visit a Houston Independent School District campus using the Ignite program today to call on local business leaders to support schools and education.