America CAN sink lower

Apparently, there are now "Katrina bus tours." On said tour, according to CNN.com, you can for $35 (or $28 for children) tour the devastated areas of New Orleans:

The three-hour tour, called "Hurricane Katrina -- America's Worst
Catastrophe," takes passengers down Canal Street, where many businesses remain
boarded up after the floods that hit 80 percent of the city and the widespread
looting that followed.

You can also get a fascinating glimpse of the wreckage of the Superdome, where people starved and died and were raped and murdered just a few weeks ago! You can also see the convention center, where more of the same happened, and some of the badly hit residential areas. This is the ultimate in capitalism I suppose... but to me it's like a tour of a concentration camp two months after liberation. Gruesome. Though I doubt those tours would be led by survivors.

It seems that the actual Katrina victims are not enraged by this but have been telling people to take the tours and take pictures and spread the word that things are still horrible for them; they are living in tents inside their ruined homes, or, if they're lucky, mobile homes; there is little hope for rebuilding. After all, a whole $3 of every ticket sale is donated to "Katrina relief." So, I can't really blame the people there for making money. They're doing it for survival. And if the people whose homes on display are the ones encouraging the tours, then what the hell.