[pterional]

I agree. I spent three months there and you really couldn't walk around outside the french quarter north of rampart street without getting mugged or worse. The area along the garden district was safe but majority of NO was like inside eight mile perimeter of Detroit.

I think this event had two disaster the storm then the wrath of the criminal element. Clearly the first is easier to accept.

This is also the first time the US taxpayers have seen the enormity of a population that is extremely dependent on government handouts. A population that has no skills, no education, and is growing rapidly. What are we going to do????

[wagglebee]

My brother-in-law was mugged there a couple of years ago coming out of a bar in the French quarter (he was a graduate student at Tulane at the time). The night he was mugged, there were over 20 muggings and four murders.

These criminals are just acting the way they always have, but this week the whole world got to see it.

[zipper]

This is also the first time the US taxpayers have seen the enormity of a population that is extremely dependent on government handouts. A population that has no skills, no education, and is growing rapidly....

Exactly. They're dependent on the government for everything-- is it any surprise that they are incapable of preparing for a disaster in advance? Now, the government is providing everything for them again-- after relocating them. They will never be weaned from government dependence, and will probably spawn a whole new set of Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons throughout the South where they are relocated; opportunists who exploit their dependence on government handouts.