Oh please. It has nothing to do with inbred people in New Orleans, and it wasn't just New Orleans where fraud occurred. If the old money residents of New Orleans had their way, the city wouldn't have become what it did, especially on the eastside. The problem is, old money by default is old money, it doesn't have the ability to outvote the ghetto. New Orleans has the oppurtunity to now do exactly what the old money of the city wants for it, and what they want is for the better of the city, no question.
Much of the fraud was perpetrated by people not from the coast who used false addresses in order to recieve aid. There was a story in the paper here a few months ago about a woman who used an address here to recieve federal aid, an address that did not even exist. This person of course, had never spent much time around here. Neither had FEMA, because they automatically approved the request. The burden was on FEMA to make sure the money was distributed in an efficient manner.
I'm unconcerned with however inbred they may or may not be, but it has *everything* to do with the people in New Orleans. You may forget that the rest of the country got to *watch* as New Orleans showed us all what a third-world cesspool it was.
Hurricanes have hit states all throughout the Southeast for many decades. In most cases the rest of us are left standing in awe of the human courage and benevolence that rises from such desperate times. But in New Orleans we got another kind of lesson... one that I won't soon forget.
What happened in New Orleans was embarrassing, but not because of FEMA or the National Guard or the other responders. They did the best they could in an impossible situation. New Orleans was an embarrassment because of the people there. Mere animals would have behaved better.