Wrong.
You won't even deal with the facts of the matter, which means everything else you spout is based on a false premise.
Which means you ain't worth the trouble of debating.
I'm wrong, huh?
I'm sure you're an intelligent person and if someone told you that in two days a 300 mile-wide storm that was expected to dump double-digit amounts of rain, accompanied by high winds was about to pass through your hometown, would you stand around and wait for someone to pick you up, mollycoddle you and take you away or would you take the initiative to save your own friggin skin?
Where, tell me, in all of this tragedy, do you see people who were concerned for their own personal safety until it was clear that such was impossible to guarentee?
We're not talking about infants, cripples, and people in comas here, we're talking about people who had the means and the cunning to pillage Wal-Mart, but who couldn't apply that brainpower and intiative to the (potential)saving their own lives.
I'm sorry, but I've seen this attitude all too often here on the Carolina shores or in Florida: people board up and hope for the best. I actually recall one pre-storm interview with a NO public official who complained that every year they're told to board up and hunker down and then nothing happens. It never enters anyone's mind that this MIGHT BE THE YEAR IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
That's not a failing of government, by the way, that's a failure of the individual to do what is necessary to protect life and property, in that order.
If New Orleans is ever rebuilt, I hope they do it 50 miles inland and on top of a hill, and repopulate it with Irish Setters, because at least a dog has the sense to get out of flooded house.