# Katrina; It's All Part of the Plan (by the political Right) (ed. title) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-its-all-part-of-the-plan-by-the-political-right-ed-title/320595 "2005-09-08T00:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-its-all-part-of-the-plan-by-the-political-right-ed-title/320595/41 "2005-09-10T01:06:41Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Every flood has a silver lining.](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05251/567892.stm) This specifically: > [@](#): > > Rep. William Jefferson, a sharecropper’s son who was educated at Harvard and is currently serving his eighth term in Congress, points out that the evacuees from New Orleans already have been spread out across many states far from their old home and won’t be able to afford to return. “This is an example of poor people forced to make choices because they don’t have the money to do otherwise,” Mr. Jefferson says. This was a good article, Elvis and I’m glad you posted it. I’m really not sure what Jefferson is getting at. **My** choices in life are limited by my financial wherewithal, as I’m sure are yours, unless you happen to be an NBA star or Britney Spears. It seems to me that he’s simply pointing out the incredibly obvious. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-its-all-part-of-the-plan-by-the-political-right-ed-title/320595/42 "2005-09-11T16:37:04Z")
The next time you’re forced out of your house NOT because of financial reasons, with no possibility of returning, you can discuss the subject. Have you anything to say about the subject of the cited article, the concept that these poor black Democrats might not ever be allowed to return to their own city, finances notwithstanding, because of a faction of people displaying the same attitude as yourself? You have the ability to \*add \* so much to this forum if you really wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-its-all-part-of-the-plan-by-the-political-right-ed-title/320595/43 "2005-09-11T18:55:18Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > How exactly do the mega-rich benefit from the destruction of the middle class? So they can lower wages? Yes, each individual business wants to pay employees as little as possible. But they also want to sell their products for as much as possible. The vast majority of goods are services aren’t consumed by the mega-rich but by the average citizen. If the average citizen were an impoverished serf then who would the corporations sell their goods and services to? > > You know, there’s a much simpler explanation for why the rich don’t like to pay taxes. It’s not that high taxes help the middle class, who the mega-rich hate and fear. Rather, the lower their taxes are, the more money the rich get to keep. Bill Gates doesn’t give a rat’s ass WHY you want his money, he just wants to keep it. Why exactly is this so hard to understand? Warran Buffet doesn’t like giving the government his money, not because he hates you, but because he likes money. > > Reminds me of the old Captain Planet cartoon. In that cartoon polluters ENJOYED polluting the environment…they created pollution for fun. And the solution therefore was to just smash their pollution-creation devices, problem solved. Except in the real world no one creates pollution just because they like pollution, they create pollution because it’s cheaper than cleaning up after themselves. > > When you completely misunderstand the problem then your proposed solutions will be completely inappropriate. Rich people want to be rich, they don’t particularly care whether you are rich or poor. Bank robbers don’t rob banks because they hate banks, they rob banks because that’s where the money is. See the difference? Ah yes, now I see! They are greedy _and_ without ruth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/katrina-its-all-part-of-the-plan-by-the-political-right-ed-title/320595.md?page=2)