As most Americans were, I was horrified at the destuction Katrina caused in southern parts of the U.S. I'm EXTREMLY mad about how long it took the govenment to assist victims... anyone else agree?

Yeah it sucks that it happened, but I live in Houston, the biggest recepient of evacuees. Since Katrina happened, our city's crime rates have risen drastically. Can't these people do something besides steal and kill? Like maybe look for a job.

Hurricane Katrina has hurt many people, I am glad that they are still going to celebrate Mardi Gras even though they are having hard times. I don't think its because they are like they have to do it but more that it will lighten people up if they do. Hopefuly it will bring revenue to New Orleans

Well if Bush put his plan about the tested hurricane into action we could have saved more people and been more prepared.
There is no way to summerize the tragedy, the best thing is to learn from it, and help survive from it.

well i feel so bad that happened and i feel bad for the people that had to go tho it... but i do feel that bush could have done more and alot faster too...i mean come on...there was to many people that needed help all at once but of course they had to wait but not just a couple of dayz but for awhile...i mean hello thier r people that r in wheelchairs and people that need meds but no instead bush decides to take time i mean come on bush look at this...and also look at the war that is usless total...but i know if it was people with alot of money oo thats a different story all together

i wish there was more that our nation could do to help rebuild the damage. i can only imagine the devastation of the people who went through the ordeal. i mean a lot of people lost EVERYTHING and rebuilding a new life is incredibly tough.

We keep having too many diasters and there was barely any help in my opinion when Hurrican Katrina blew up!

Lesson 1: Stop building in areas unsuited for permanent inhabitance by humans. DUH.

Lesson 2: Treat all people the same. You can't run to the aide of rich white people during California mudslides and fires, or run to the aide of New York and DC during attacks, and not run to the aide of a city full of lower-income black people. Run to the aide of no one or everyone, you can't choose.

Lesson 3: Humans are overpopulated. Deal. Embrace these major losses as the checks and balance system we need in order to maintain some form of balance in nature. More people need to die. Less people need to be born. It's that simple. And there is no profile for who should go. It's everyone. We need a large scale cutback in the human population.

And if you think I'm being mean? Deal.

ya it was really sad so many people lost thier lives

The gov't responded so slowly because they didn't have much incentive to help them. In the gov't's eyes they were a group of people that didn't contribute much to the national economy and just didn't want to deal with the problem.

I think that it is amazing that we can raise hundreds of millions of dollars for natural disaters that happen overseas but we can't do anything for our own country. It really sad and says alot about the state of our government