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On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:17:43 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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They were on a generator for 2 months. They called it "feeding the
monster"

I didn't realize you can afford a generator on a minimum wage income.

Maybe those people should not live in a hurricane zone. Fortunately
the price of the real estate usually precludes most minimum wage
people. New Orleans was just an aberration, perhaps the most dangerous
city in the country ... but we all knew that. It had been a recurring
warning for many years before Katrina. They just lived, and continue
to live in denial. There won't be any significant difference if a Cat
3 hit them next week. The only thing better will be that 100,000 of
those people did not come back. It will still be a disaster.

The poor people living in NOLA are not living in denial. They're living the
"American dream" (according the right-wing).