Reply #2: Paul Krugman makes the infinitely damning argument...

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that America's unique savagery toward the poor (and thus by extension all of its other socioeconomic viciousness including its refusal to build adequate mass transport) is an expression of white America's racism: less obvious than Hitler's, but every bit as calculatedly murderous.

This essay of Krugman's is the most important critique of the American people ever written and is a Must Read for anyone who wants to understand why Bush is president and how horribly close we are to overt Nazism (note in this context both the aftermath of Katrina and Bennett's call for genocide):

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/091905.html