As usual, the libertarian misses the point. You are such a closed-minded group you seem unable to read and understand simple essays.
The point is that capitalism caused the poverty that Katrina revealed, and that the GOP's laissez-faire pro-capitalist ideology is revealed as bad for nearly everyone.
Certainly the Democrats are awful too, just less so.
Let's see, capitalism caused Nagin not to use the buses he had. Capitalism caused 80,000+ not to attempt to get out and 10,000 to still stay there. Are they waiting for the power to come back on so they can get the latest market quotes?
No, I said capitalism caused the poverty that Katrina revealed. I said absolutely nothing about the 'disaster response'. Please try to actually read posts before responding, J.J.
Of course it was poverty which prevented persons from leaving.
What, that people in cities don't own cars, or that they don't have flood proof houses? The classic case case is Fats Domino, who lost his late model Cadillac and his mansion in the flood. He wasn't to poor to leave; he didn't want to leave.
You had 9,000 people before the storm hit who went to a public shelter (they should have been on buses). After they got flooded out, you have 21,000 people who decided, "Hey, we should get to a shelter." They didn't stay because they too poor to leave, they stayed because either they couldn't physically get out (disabled) or they didn't want to leave. You still have about 10,000 that are saying, "Hell no, we won't go!" That's not poverty.
