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Surely you aren't suggesting that the entire population that is still there had means to leave and did not? That everyone there stayed behind to loot?

I already said that the city government is partly blame by not evacuating before the storm."

As I said in my post, there were many who stayed behind to loot. They were not going to evacuate, no matter what. There were others who didn't believe it would be bad ... that they could "ride it out" in their homes. As for those who wanted to get out, but couldn't because of age, health, or lack of ability for some other reason, those submerged buses all prove that the public transportation existed to get them out ... the blame, there, goes squarely on the Mayor's shoulders.

As for cuts in levee budgets ... blame goes to Carter and Clinton too, you know. Besides, the area of the levee that gave was was actually an area that had NOT been in danger of going prior to this event. I heard an Corps of Engineer's officer say that on CNN yesterday. So, budget cuts didn't effect cause this anyway.