I assume this is true because a friend of mine evacuated New Orleans before Katrina. He said all the reports were difficult to believe, since the majority of those who stayed actually had autos available, notwithstanding they may not have had enough gas. That said, he said the sales tax revenues in the flooded wards were normal for liquor, lottery tickets, manicures, the night before landing and crack and other drug sales might have been above normal. It seems the poor chose to buy dope instead of gas and then some of them went to Congress and testified that the "poor were left there to die". I don't buy this crap. Many of us who live on the water in hurricane zones and have actually suffered tremendous loses, never looked to the government for relief. Why did we forego crack, liquor, pimp cars, manicures, lottery tickets, etc., so we could pay for insurance.
This is possibly the dumbest argument I have heard in a while....Both places are being torn down by mother nature which has nothing to do with upper class, lower class, rich or poor. Im sorry I actually have no sympathy for the poor people who couldn't move because they could of taken a different path in life and made something of themselves. Instead they are dead beat degenerates who had no where to go because they F*d up somewhere down the line, either way both suck and this is a crazy argument.
