New Orleans poor on a madcap lark

[astro]

Yes I know it’s human tragedy , but (IMO) this columnists comment was both biting and funny as hell.

Mr. Brown also spoke glibly of the flood victims left in New Orleans in Katrina’s wake as “those who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city,” as though the flood victims in one of America’s poorest cities stayed home on some sort of madcap lark and now had to own up to the consequences of their poor individual judgment.

[marky33]

From the article:

But now [FEMA] has been folded into D.H.S., and it’s forgotten its real mission. Actually, that mission has even been pulled away from it. That whole component has been ripped out.

In its place is a single agency mandate to structure all agency efforts to address the terror threat.

In a roundabout way, then, Katrina represents another successful strike by terrorists on the US mainland.