How Would the US React?

Calling the earthquake, tsunami and looming nuclear disaster his
nation's "worst crisis in the 65 years since the war," Japanese Prime
Minister Naoto Kan attempted to reassure his people: "If the nation
works together, we will overcome
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14japan.html?hp> ."

Which got me thinking... how would America respond to a near-nationwide
crisis of similar scale? Judging from 9/11 and Katrina, I'm guessing
with tax cuts for the rich, the elimination of labor rules and rights,
and the suspension of civil liberties.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/03/13/how-would-america-r
espond-to-a-japan-scale-disaster