70 years of "the dole" in NO has produced generations of "YOU GOTS--I WANTS!" folks.
It's like these folks have never been told: "Get up off your arses and get a job." Happened to this poor dumb boy at age 15. Been pluggin these 50 year.
This whole Katrina thing, (above and beyond the obvious catastrophe), has been a really big WAKE-UP CALL to America. Can any country survive with hundreds of thousands of bitchers and moaners, who produce nothing and consume everything? Like locust! Lookit any history--Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome, did fine as empires until the consumers got the best of the producers. BINGO! Down they go like a ton a brick. ? We any different?
Last I heard, the SuperDome in NO had about $7 million in damage to it by 20,000 "refugees."
Think about it! The SuperDome would host 70,000+ for a rowdy game, no problem. BUT, put in these low-lifes for a few days, and the place is totally trashed!
About time this country got pissed off enough to call this attitude what it is: a mind-set of criminality of the worst type. Always conniving for "Something for nothing." Crooks! Folks: even in physics--something never comes from nothing!