[sammyg2]

Maybe if they got off their lazy a$$es and did something for themselves instead of crying and b!tching about having to wait for someone else to do something for them they wouldn't still be in this situation.
I have no sympathy for them at all. Eventually they have to put in some effort of their own. Everything I have I earned. If I want something bad enough I work my butt off to get it. If I didn't know how I learned. I suggest they do the same. Of course if the knew how to work hard they would have never been in this mess in the first place.

As far as New Orleans is concerned, they should not have spent a penny rebuilding it. The entire city should have been condemned and plowed under.
Not only is it a modern sodom and gomorrah, it is built below sea level with only dirt walls to protect it from the sea. Stupid design, stupid idea, rebuilding it so it can flood it again is absolutely moronic. Unless they can figure out an economic way to raise the entire city about 40 feet it should be wiped off the map.

Since we had to throw Iraq into this conversation the poor people of New orleans will not attack us, all they will do is try and bleed us dry through welfare and hand outs.
The middle east is a different story. The instability over there is a threat to our national security. The president's number one responsibility is to protect the country and it's citizens from threats internal and abroad.
Apples to oranges.