I agree PQ that it comes down to personal responsibility
I guess the kinder side of my heart goes out to these people. Enough is not written in the story to truly understand the foundation, like if he was a disable vet or something like that, or had some mental issues.
Too many times in todays society we argue about taxes, rules, personal responsibility.
This story reminds me of something else that happened and such outrage occurred. These people didn't have to pay any money but were told to leave or something bad will happen. They didn't leave and something bad did happen, then they want to blame everyone else for not leaving, but that was the Governments Fault and the personal repsonsibilty, self preservation, or whatever you call it never came into affect.
What could this possibly be? What people in their right mind would not heed a warning? Why did we just stand here and watch what happened and do nothing?
What happened was called
Hurricane Katrina