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Ok, so what you see from across the Atlantic about New Orleans doesn't even begin to describe what happened. I was in Mississippi when Katrina came through. I saw what was done firsthand. I heard Mississippi's Governor in a news conference 2 days after the hurricane saying that the fact that the state had a lot of our National Guard deployed to Iraq was not a factor in response time. But of course the national media didn't air that. The didn't show Governor Barbour praising President Bush for immediately making relief funds available, and personally promising to provide the state with anything needed to deal with the crisis. They went with Ray Nagin screaming like a ***** and blaming George Bush for all of it. The fact of the matter is that about 90% of the roads were completely impassable for about 100 miles north of the Gulf Coast. I don't care how many people you have working on it, that kind of debris is going to take days to clear before you even get close to the real destruction. There were countless aid efforts going at the time to get food and water to the coast. As a result, casualties were minimal. As for the reconstruction, you cannot expect to see immediate results. I have personally seen the billions of dollars provided by the government at work and businesses are returning and bringing jobs. Tourism is almost as good as it was before the storm. As a former resident of Mississippi, I am satisfied with what the government has done about Katrina.