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