You may be right about the scumbags. But not everyone who is a refugee is a scumbag. And some are just, I guess the best word is inadequate. Some are sick, some are old, some are having bad times. And some have been going to work every day of their lives doing menial work. Some are barely making it working class. Any who have families and a place to go will make out okay. But some of those people have never been outside of NO and haven't the slightest chance to adapt.
But some will want the lottery. I was asking why that mattered. They aren't going to get it.
True. Some of the heartlessness I have read on this thread and others has me shocked. You are so right. These people for the most part are poor and tried to get out. New Orleans has a very good public transit system, I used it when I was young and had no car or money to purchase a car. It would have been difficult for me to have gotten out of the City if that hurricane had hit in the 1970s instead of this past week. What happened to "There but for the grace of God go I?
I have read the most outlandish things about New Orleans police since that video of two cops looting. Right now my nephew is facing very real looters with guns. Probably drug addicts who can't get their usual fix. I'm sure he has little ammo, not much chain of command, and little help. His mom who just got out of New Orleans is worried sick about him. I sure hope no one on FR ever has to go through what any of the people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have had to go through. I doubt some of these windbags could handle it.