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The poor were left behind. There was and is no plan to get them out of NO, either before or after the hurricane. I STILL have heard of no coherent plan. Incredible. They are desperate. In their situation, I would be helping myself to what I need to survive.

This is so much fertilizer. These people didn't have feet? They couldn't catch any of the hundreds of buses that left the city? What happened is that folks that don't have a lot of energy for effort waited for some magical carpet to arrive and transport them away. They didn't even bother to get up and take the shuttles to the Superdome.

There was zero reason for anyone who could walk in the city to have remained in their homes. They had options of safety, they didn't take them, and now they're 'taking what they're owed' from those who actually worked for a living.

If there is any desperation it is because the liberal dependency machine didn't drop it in their lap. And you've see the same videos I've seen. They weren't taking what they needed to survive, they were taking what wasn't nailed down.

From the people who are making it out of the city, the situation is getting pretty clear. The looters are fleeing the flooded regions and looting the areas that survived, sometimes shooting those that get in their way.

They couldn't catch any of the hundreds of buses that left the city?

What hundreds of buses? Bus service stopped on Saturday. The rest of you ideological comments about the evils of liberalism, and that is why these folks are poor, and don't have car, and are not self sufficient, is all quite fascinating, but the word I would use for bringing it up now, would get me banned, so I will just say, the comment is what causes "conservatives" to sometimes get a bad name, due to those with diplomatic skills of the level that you exhibit.