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Originally Posted by filburt1

OK, this is getting ridiculous:

• It was a natural disaster, thus caused by no individual, political party, group, or nation
• People were told to leave the area
• Many people had no means of leaving the area
• New Orleans was not so intelligently founded by locating it below sea level, thus making it so vulnerable to storm surge
• A person is smart. People are stupid and this is where the looting and eventual "shoot to kill" order for looters came from.

I can't comment on the political state of the recovery because I haven't been closely following the situation (news is so ridiculously infused with bias and emotion instead of factual information that I don't bother anymore) and I do not debate politics online.

I agree with all of your statements filburt1. My statement regarding the welfare class didn't include the criminal class, of which New Orleans is inundated with (highest murder rate in the country). The welfare class (for the most part) is a whole generation of people who don't work, don't want to work and are perfectly happy to let someone else take care of them (we the taxpayers) and have very little sense of self-responsiblity. Welfare was designed as assistance, but too many in this country suck it for all it's worth and it does a great disservice to this country.