Classism at its best?
Cash at its best!
Actually it makes sense. The tourists have homes to go to and once out of the city won't require support. If they stay in the city they have to be supported by the already strained resources.
but let's blame bush for all our faults it is easier as sharpton was yapping it up on MSNBC about bush being in a sense uncaring the very mayor of New Orleans forgot his own people
The guy sure 'yells' a different game, doesn't he?
Those people would have been murdered.
Nagin did the right thing.
If by that you mean treating the "rich" differently, you are probably wrong. People form NO may have some support from relatives and neighbors. If you are tourist, you have nothing, whether you are "rich" or poor.
It's a biblical admonition to take care of the strangers, widows and orphans in your midst.
While Rome burned, Nero fiddled,
While NOLA flooded, Nagin diddled.