Guest: I am talking about the USA's karma and not the individuals.

I believe that the USA has not sufficiently lived up to its words and potential with regard to race and poverty. IMO, we have allowed corruption to flourish in our government, and in our mass media.

As I see it these failures can result in karmic occurances such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina {more than the Hurricane itself}. The coverage of the 'shit' that has literally and figuratively happened in that aftermath has [to use a 1960s Black power expression] "pulled the covers off" of things many Americans would prefer not to think about. As a result of a mass media which [at least initially] appeared to grow some balls, we were emotionally confronted with horror and death and destruction, and malfeasion in high places. We witnessed or read about the horrendous treatment of the poor in New Orleans' Superdome and convention center. And we saw the dead floating in the streets, and the dead laying on highways, and alligators eating bodies. And hopefully it digusts us and makes us angry enough to do something about what our nation has become.

Pluto in Sagittarius describes death, and shit uncovered. And Pluto {which rules Scorpio} also symbolizes the phoenix rising from the ashes.

Can our nation become better as a result of this catastrophy whether it is karmic or not? I hope so. I know that it has indirectly struck me hard and made me more determined to do what I can to look inside myself and work outside of myself to make a difference in the world.