Travis, I think what’s at work here is the lefty pipe dream that the nation will be so repulsed and shamed by the evident poverty exposed by the hurricane that they will turn over most of the private sector, their incomes and their property to be redistributed to the poor to assuage their guilt. Sort of a New New Deal. This ignores the fact, of course, that the only chance New Orleans has to recover is a vibrant private sector itself.