[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!

[zzen01]

Civil War anyone!

[CBart95]

Repeating a large part of what has just been posted to add one content-free sentence is stupid.
More so when the reply is so empty.

Chavez's article is mainly a holier-than-thou preachy piece that coyly sings "Money can't buy Poverty"...all the more tiresome by being penned by a latino surnamed author.

[cynicom]

Your post was correct. Disregard rantings of the members of the left.