Katrina a year later.

By Bill Horton
8/28/2006

Katrina.

That name evokes emotion with people today.

It conjures up memories of politicians breaking their necks to get money flowing to their states. It flashes images of poor people sitting huddled in the Superdome in New Orleans. It makes us remember how the national press had been duped into printing falsehoods about rapes and suicides in the Superdome.

Mississippi lost a great deal of her history when Katrina came ashore. Fortunately, many folks evacuated the MS gulf coast.

New Orleans has the mentality that it will pass so pass me another drink. They had dodged so many bullets up to Katrina that they thought they were off the hook again.

The entitlement mentality also has a strong foothold on New Orleans. The folks down there seem to have forgotten all of the people and property lost and destroyed during the myriad of storms that have hit Florida. I suppose there was not enough poverty to cover there, no real tearjerker in Florida.

Not all of Florida is Boca Raton! Granted, not all of New Orleans is the Garden District either but the whining in New Orleans never seems to stop. Ray C. Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, calls everyone else out when playing the blame game but he gets a pass when the bill comes due. His city left ALL of the 500 busses required to evacuate folks locked up below sea level!

Sure, he ordered a full evacuation, mere hours before the storm made landfall! Yippee! Nagin is to blame for the loss of life that did occur. President Bush runs the national government, where is the responsibility of the city and the state? Governor Bush of Florida does not play during hurricanes he is out there telling folks to get out and come back after the storm. Blanco and Nagin patted one another on the back until they nearly broke their arms and in the end when the truth hit the street they pointed at each other! Then collectively they pointed at the President, as good Democrats would.

The one-year anniversary of Katrina means that I am watching a period of growth in Slidell, LA. It means our neighbor to the South is still the Big Easy and the people there are still looking for their handouts!

If you feel your pocket, moving around it is the congress stealing more of your money to send to the whiners in New Orleans!

Ernesto will likely give New Orleans a pass, too bad they could get more money out of Congress if they cried even louder!