Think of Your Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Movie

"The Road Warrior," "A Boy and His Dog," "Escape from New York," etc.

Now it's Escape from New Orleans. And let's not forget the rest of the Gulf Coast which is also fucked.

We have no government -- at least, no effective government. Here we have an MP3 of an interview with the mayor of New Orleans. He's asking for help. The delay in getting help is killing people, allowing lawlessness to thrive, turning it into a situation where one would have to join an armed gang to survive. It's worse than 9/11, worse than Baghdad. It's a little preview of what will happen if the US government keeps going in the direction it's been going. The rich will be safe, the middle class endangered, and the poor will die or turn to violence.