Jonah Goldberg at NRO's the Corner:

. . .what I objected to, and still object to, is the reflexive playing of the class card. Is it really true that some middle class retirees who heeded the advice of the government to leave town, only to watch their homes be looted after a lifetime of hardwork for a better life are suffering less than a poor person who lost his rented apartment? What's the metric for measuring this sort of suffering? What about the small businessman who worked his entire life to build something he's proud of? What about the families who lost loved ones, but had the poor taste to make more money than the poverty line?

Jonah gets property values messed up with human values.  Let's face it, the tragedy facing New Orleans' poor has very little to do with the loss of their "rented apartments" and a lot more to do with the loss of their lives.  I've seen very little out there about the "loss of apartments" or even homes (Trent Lott's excepted) and very much about the destruction of human life. 

And that's where the poor are getting victimized.  Because they do not possess the same resources as those better off, they could not flee the city when Katrina approached.  Therefore, many died from drowning, lack of medical care and perhaps violence.  This isn't about the loss of rented apartments.  Its about the loss of life.  Jonah needs to know that the "metric" for measuring that is the same for each one of us.