Government of the people, for the people, by the people redux

Earlier I did a post juxtapositioning the plight of military widows/widowers attempting to navigate the complex web of bureaucracy to gain survivor benefits after losing a spouse to the war in Iraq against the amazing amount of waste and outright theft and fraud involving federal relief funds for Hurricane Katrina victims. Here's another side to the Katrina story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/opinion/05fellowes.html?th&emc=th