My next door neighbor (Philadelphia area) drove to Mississippi last week when she found out that four out of five family members' homes were wiped out by Katrina in the Biloxi area. She loaded up an SUV and a trailer with supplies and started driving south.
I get a whole different picture in my mind when I think of New Orleans and the hordes of wards with their hands out, waiting for "the government" (aka, half my paycheck) to come save them. And feed them, clothe them, "take care of" them....
You just KNOW that the next step, after $2,000 debit cards are issued to each of the New Orleans "refugees", that demands for new houses with A/C and plasma screen TVs will come next. Their martyrdom in the press, and therefore with the whore politicians, will go on for years. We all may as well bend over and get ready - - here comes "the government".
I am terribly worried about this as well. I just don't know what we can do about it. I'm feeling helpless and think that you are too. I am in Houston, and though I feel that we have absolutely done the right thing to help, I am worried about the results in the long run.
God Bless your neighbor.
JJ has said the NO victims should get what the 911 TT families got, one MM bucks.