You do live in America, don't you. You understand that we just can't cut off this region just cause you don't live there.
Wherever it is MRMEAN lives, I'm sure the area where he lives has never received any benefit whatsoever from any oil, natural gas or products shipped into any port along the portion of the gulf coast affected by Katrina. Any petroleum based product, steel, produce, etc...never, ever has his area received any benefit.
Let's see, New Orleans is the 5th largest port in the world if I'm not mistaken which even if MRMEAN has never actually used any product to come through the port, he also has never benefitted financially from the impact of the US having that port.
(Do I need to use my sarcasm tag?)
Here's the link to the Port of New Orleans website. Quite a bit of information on the impact of the Port. (In pdf format)
http://www.portno.com/