Why was New Orleans left on the wayside?
And that brings us to Katrina. Why reconstruct the poor areas of New Orleans destroyed by the flooding and bring back ‘the leeches on society’? Why not instead, as it is being done now, create middle class housing where the poor people used to live? ‘Upgrade’ the city at the expense of the lives of the poor families who used to live in the low income housing that now needs renovating. Poor people have no voice and so they don’t matter. The fact that these same people are actually the basis of production seems immaterial to the capitalist and his world view. Humane notions are foreign to those who put the blame on the poverty stricken people themselves. Compassion is an unknown. Everyone should be able to pull themselves out of ghettos and out of their lives in poverty by their own bootstraps. If they can’t, that’s just too bad. The fact that the free-market economy has rendered the poverty problem so much more acute than it was even six years ago is immaterial to the high and mighty. A
