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The thing that irritates me the most is the "Disney World" mind set of Americans. Things should be perfect, and if not, then we get free passes.

This is not a perfect world. Governments, like people, take the path of least resistance. A storm like this has a probability of hitting a place like New Orleans of about .05 percent, or about one in 200. No one would foot the bill for such a small chance of it happening. Thats reality. Katrina did hit Category 4 strength, thats reality too.

The individuals in New Orleans should have had enough personal responsibility to have at least three or four days water and food onhand. After all, they did know Katrina was coming. The local government, with the Super Dome marked as a shelter, should have had it stocked and managed.

I do not blame the US Government. There is not enough tax money in the world to have every city prepared for every worse case scenerio. Again, reality.

As Ben Stein said yesterday, the President's job responsibilities do not include a, making sure every American is mobile, has a car, has common sense.

Its getting tiresome to hear Kennedy, Action Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al, making this into another race issue. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people too, for that matter.

Hurricanes happen too, as do earthquakes, impacts from Meteors, and volcanos. We have to just deal with it.