Im going to come right out and say it-Katrina was a big scam. It covered up corruption in the state of Louisiana, allowed the media to blame a sitting President for a natural disaster, and bought a lot of TVs, tattoos, and ipods. Were people hurt by the storm? Absolutely. But honest and resonable people moved on with their lives, while a multitude are still scamming the system. But anyone who points out the scams, is labled insensitive..
cardina,
Just one problem with your hypothosis: lots of hard-working people, liberals and conservatives, lost everything they had. Most of them are working hard still to come back but it's hard. Contrary to your thinking, Katrina exposed the corruption in LA. This much is true.
The biggest thing Katrina did was show America (and the rest of the world) the failure of the welfare state. We had large numbers of people (not everyone) there who were incapable of taking care of themselves and/or their families.
How could ANYONE live in a hurricane zone below sea level and not have the desire (or ability) to get their children out of that place before the storm hit?
I will never forget the MSNBC interview of the woman with three kids who (while smoking a cigarette) told the reporter that they did not have enough money to pay for the gas to evacuate in their car.
There was a news story tonight about some of them getting thrown out of their apartments. Talk about *itching. I say TOUGH!
They have been living off the government their entire lives. Why expect them to change now?
Or racist.
And a wheelbarrow full of crack.