Where's MY money?

I don't mean to sound insensitive, but wasn't Hurricane Katrina almost six months ago? I wasn't aware that we were paying for hotel rooms in the first place, but I can't believe that we're still paying for hotel rooms almost six months later.

Katrina was bad. So was Rita. Maybe it's a good idea to have Big Brother help people out for a little while after something like this comes along. But, at what point do you pull the plug on the Federal ATM Machine and expect people to live responsibly and take control of their own lives?

In my mind, six months is plenty of time to move somewhere else, find a job, and start taking care of your family.

Finally (this is the part for which I'll probably get called an insensitive jerk and other such things), did it ever occur to any of these people that they should have considered what would happen to their wicked little city-below-sea-level if a hurricane like this came along?

Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting. George Bush doesn't care about black people, and he was definitely the primary cause of Hurricane Katrina. That's why these people still haven't begun to take care of themselves yet.

Anyway, I better get back to work. Apparently I've got some hotel rooms I need to pay for. Then again, if I get fired I can always get some money from the government to cover my bills. Which raises an interesting question: Why am I working so hard when I could just get free money from the government? To quote "Pete" from O Brother, Where Art Thou?, "That don't make no sense!"