The people who lived in New Orleans have suffered and 
    they will continue to suffer, but the suffering doesn’t 
    end there. The “Food Chain” of suffering doesn’t end 
    until the last lawsuit is settled out of court. Our 
    children will have kids of their own before that happens. 

    Remember, everything is just "a problem" until someone 
    checks their tires one day and finds dioxin, asbestos, or 
    PCB’s and someone else discovers that its been driven all 
    over town, then it’s "a real BIG problem". Every miscarriage,
    every cancer victim, every case of autism in the lower 
    Mississippi will result in a lawsuit against the City and 
    State. 

    For those of you who find yourself mystified at the 
    attitude and behavior of the Governor and Mayor as of 
    late, this little problem might help you understand one 
    reason why they are acting so odd (besides the fact that 
    they were odd before the Hurricane). The real problem we 
    now face isn’t the potential decontamination costs its 
    that there isn’t enough money in the world to cover all 
    those lawsuits and the threats of lawsuits. Do the 
    words "Federal Superfund" spring to mind? Yeah, it does 
    to me too. 

    Add to this ‘witches brew’ of lawyers and potential 
    lawsuits is a history of political corruption that goes 
    back centuries in Louisiana. This corruption was 
    overlooked and in some cases downright tolerated so long 
    as it was kept within the family but what Katrina has 
    done is bring attention to the outside world of a true 
    American shame, the plight of the people who previously 
    lived below sea level on the lower Mississippi. What the 
    Mayor, The Governor and every official in Louisiana 
    above "city dog catcher" is looking at is the one thing 
    they have rarely seen in their careers and that is 
    scrutiny by the press, by lawyers who will be crawling 
    through every transaction looking at every relationship, 
    trying to find every bit of corruption they can find. 
    Insurance companies as well as a whole host of Federal 
    agencies are about to lose a great deal of money. And 
    it's always been my experience that people will leave you 
    alone so long as you don’t mess with their money, but if 
    you mess with their money, they will make it their life's 
    work to see that you pay for your error. 

    Once the Lawyers start finding corruption it will be very 
    much like the effects of a second flood only this time, 
    it’s a flood that will sweep away the Democrat political 
    machine that has run Louisiana since the Civil War. 

    To the Democrat party, it's as if they just lost a capital 
    city in their domain during wartime. Think of it like the 
    impact of the fall of Atlanta on the Confederates during 
    the Civil War. Louisiana just lost its last solid 
    Democratic voting districts, and any part of the existing 
    Democratic machine that is still standing is about to be 
    tied down in a Gulliverian web of lawsuits and Federal 
    corruption charges which will surely come as a result of 
    the floods. 

    Katrina didn’t just end a way of life in the lower 
    Mississippi, but it has brought an end to a way of doing 
    business in Baton Rouge. 

    In the end, It wont be 'conservative values' that will 
    have beaten the Democrats, it wasnt the "Reagan revolution"
    and it wont be the Bush family. 

    It will be the lawyers.