The people on the streets of new orleans were practically left there. All are minorities, all are poor. They were left for dead. Military ships that left from norfolk will take days to get there, the USS Comfort a week; it will be too late.
There have been countless studies that showed what would happen to the city in a major hurricane, there were plans for decades to build up the levees, install more flood walls, etc, I guess the few billion for that wasnt worth it (after all, we have to spend 100k on a traffic light in CA ,250million for a bridge in alaska*, and give the oil companies tax breaks), now the gov't can spend 10 billion dollars to clean up the mess + the billions and billions in the private sector to rebuild the city. Everyone else in the nation can pay more in insurance rates as a result. Meanwhile the white houses friends in the oil industry are having no problems exploiting the situation to make even more money.
*And another 3 billion to make a documentary on how alaska is spending their money! This is in state with no income tax, no sales tax, and its citizens are actually PAID to live there (again because of the oil!).
Fucking ridiculous.
