[stopem]

"New Orleans has one of the highest poverty rates in the nation. Nearly one-third of its citizens live below the poverty line. But as Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, points out, the federal government has given billions of dollars to New Orleans' poor since George W. Bush took office. Tanner estimates that the Bush administration has spent some $10 billion in welfare assistance in Louisiana, including $1.2 billion in cash assistance and $3 billion in food stamps, as well as public housing, Medicaid and more than 60 other federal anti-poverty programs. But all that money did not buy self-sufficiency, the commodity that largely differentiated those who escaped the deluge from those who got stuck at the Superdome and Convention Center.

And all the money, $200 BILLION taxpayers money, that will be poured at the problem will not buy SELF-SUFFICIENCY!

[mtbopfuyn]

Ok, it was well known NO would have a distaster one day. Why weren't the racemen there seeing to it that their people were protected and shelters were stocked? Better yet, why didn't these "leaders" lead their people out of the ghettos decades ago?

[cynicom]

As long as there is a dole, the poor will stay. That is true of any city.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Democrats are the party of the downtrodden and hopeless. The Republicans are the party of those with hope for their own future.

If the Democrats were to help the downtrodden and hopeless succeed, then the ranks of the Republicans would grow. Therefore, the Democrats want very much for the downtrodden and hopeless to stay downtrodden and hopeless.

It's not rocket science.

[squirt-gun]

All races have evolved to intellectual equality.....?

[Ed_in_NJ]

"The race men are at it again"

Should read: "The race PIMPS are at it again"

[WasDougsLamb]

The race men are at it again


Who cares what a bunch of ignorant racists say? Quit giving them media attention and they will go away.