Obama’s Education Secretary: Hurricane Katrina Was “Best Thing” To Happen To New Orleans Schools

Another iteration of the broken window fallacy for the Obama administration, though perhaps the most insulting one.
How many people had to die to justify New Orleans getting better schools in Duncan’s view?

ABC News’ Mary Bruce Reports: Education Secretary Arne Duncan said today that Hurricane Katrina was “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans” because it gave the city a chance to rebuild and improve its failing public schools.
In an interview to air this weekend on “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” Duncan said “that education system was a disaster. And it took Hurricane Katrina to wake up the community to say that we have to do better. And the progress that it made in four years since the hurricane, is unbelievable.”
The Education Department confirmed the quote to ABC and Duncan released the following statement in response: “As I heard repeatedly during my visits to New Orleans, for whatever reason, it took the devastating tragedy of the hurricane to wake up the community to demand more and expect better for their children.”

We should perhaps not be surprised that big-government liberals such as Mr. Duncan view disasters such as Katrina (or the financial market meltdown, etc.) as a net positive for them. Because as another Obama administration member put it, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
Meaning that every bad thing that happens to the country is an excuse for government take over. Whether it be schools or banks or auto companies.
Once you’re locked into the view that everything should be run by the government, then everything becomes an excuse to expand the size and scope of government.
But, as Bastiat taught us with the parable of the broken window, there is nothing good about disasters.