What exactly caused this gap? Only technology, which eliminated many jobs, and the rich getting richer? America seemed to have it all. But then, we have a brand-new, big idol to admire: China.
Katrina was one occasion that clearly exposed this gap.
In a way, the US poor suffer more than the European ones. People here can live without a car.
Of all the states in the Union, Louisiana is by far the most corrupt. It is also worth nothing that Louisiana has also been run by the Democratic party for roughly the last 100 years, the party of the working class and poor no less yet, if Katrina exposed anything, it was that government handouts on a massive scale do little to improve the lives of the recipients.
I am all supportive of government aid to the less fortunate, however, our system of welfare has devolved into system that perpetuates complete dependency on the goverment and creates generation after generation of a class that counts on the government for its sustenance. Then again, some would argue that was the point all along. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke
