the wrong end of the telescope

You know, if you let New Orleans get flooded and stay that way just long enough to have to transplant thousands of poor black people to new cities and new states and to have to bulldoze hundreds of square miles of ruined property, you are suddenly left with a shitload of valuable ready-to-landscape Gulf-front real estate to develop.

Sometimes I wonder if George isn't actually a HORRIFYING success. Just not in the ways the average person expects him to be.