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Many issues and questions surrounding this thread have not even been touched upon.

Personally, I don't expect any countries to come to our aid. With that same attitude I don't think we should be aiding other countries until we can take care of our own.

Why in the sam hell are so many people living in a soup bowl of a city in the face of natures fury?

How many dollars have already been funneled into the Homeland Security Act? Are we, as a country, anymore prepared to handle a disaster after funneling all that money into the act?

We can't even take care of our own, yet we are spending untold billions in Iraq and US corporations are raking in a high percentage of those untold billions.

Now the crude oil prices will rise and we will take it in the shorts at the pumps. Makes you wonder if we are more dependant on foreign oil or the oil produced in the gulf. Maybe we are simply at the mercy of the oil barons, regardless of where the bulk of crude oil comes from?

Rest assured the over-taxed citizens of the entire country will foot the bill for the aftermath of Katrina.

I have to shake my head at the thought of rebuilding New Orleans. It is going to be an enormous task, and on top of that, the threat for another natural disaster still exists.