I totally disagree with the article! It was probaly written by one of those "welfare is 100% evil" conservatives! Yes, there are people who abuse welfare, and are chronicly on it.....but they are the MINORITY....the MINORITY! CC Sinned, this descirption of the disaster could have been written about almost EVERY and ANY disaster..... It's just that THIS disaster was so collosally HUGE.
Yes, there was violence (eg rape and looting and stuff like that).....but you know what? Looting happens ALL the time in disasters.....and not just *bad* disasters....I remmeber hearing that during a blackout....a BLACKOUT!!!! NYC experianced looting! There was rape...and that is too bad. Whoever did that should be locked away in a deep dark hole and left to rot until all eternity....BUT the majority of people behaved themselves....Painting everyone with one brush, is just the same as the bum rap that, for an example, the Irish experianced during the early years of the last century.(dirty Irish, No Irish need apply....God, everyone thought that the Irish were more prone to violence...and one of the worst parts of NYC was an Irish ghetto, that made the violence seen in NO seem like NOTHING!
The welfare benifits didn't cause the mentailty....It was the fact that most of those poor people did not have a way to get out of New Orleans privatly....Not too many poor people can take advantage of privatization things.....b/c GUESS WHAT? Stuff like that costs MONEY! Something that poor people don't have!