I got an email from someone who put it this way:
"This guy's wife figured it out first - best summary I've seen yet of what
really has been going on down there. Helped me put the pieces together."
What she manages to say is from watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel:
"There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and
wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves."
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.
The entire article:
http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
Not the fact that Dept of HS was supposed to help with this, not the fact that there is a problem NOW and the administration is trying to spin blame away from Bush Co....
Makes me want to puke..