The Mayor of Dallas has started an initiative to raise $3 million to get apartment homes for the victims of Katrina sent to Dallas. She notes that FEMA is months away from providing a solution for these people, so the city wants to act now to help these people. She notes that the very poor, on welfare and unemployed, have already found places to live through HUD, but the working poor, who were renters, have no such assistance and are living on the floor of the local area and convention center. The working poor are who this initiative wants to help.

Sure, we want to help everyone, but isn't is somewhat dysfunctional to put those on the dole first in line, when those who are working and struggling have to take a back seat? This seems to be very common in our society, not just in dealing with this disaster.