>>>because it breeds an addiction to government which leads crowds of mostly healthy people to sit around and wait for the government, their savior and God, to come to the rescue.>>>
The thing is, we pay taxes for this reason! Otherwise, it would be anarchy and the situation in NO would be all over the place. So you can't take a no government mentality either. Do I manufacture my own electricity? No, I pay a company to do that for me. Does that make me a nanny dependant? No, it makes SENSE. Same for paying the government taxes to be there in a disaster. THAT'S WHAT WE PAY THEM FOR. I am not expecting the government to keep me or anyone else up for a lifetime. I do expect them to help me when I need them. Like insurance. I pay for a policy to be there when I need them.
Government did a pretty good job warning the area about the imminent disaster. And now government is attempting to cope with this unprecedented natural disaster. It turns out that government is not God after all. And God help us if we ever want government to be God.