Right now, the US national unemployment rate is 4.9%. New Orleans is quite a lot higher than the average.

Bill D. has pointed out, once again, that we simply have too many people. The US population went up by 40 million just since 1990. The people pouring in from Mexico are at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder in their own country, lower here. They come here with no doctors. That alone is a huge problem, one that is highlighted in a disaster when doctors are badly needed.