“Blah-blah-blah-’Whitey’s out to get us’, blah-blah-blah-’Bush hates black folks’, blah-blah-blah-’Insert Katrina-and-other-completely-unrelated-and-inappropriate-comparison-here’, blah-blah…”…

Over 90% of the residents from all affected areas DID evacuate, only to come back to find unlivable conditions. Also expecting that everyone was going to leave is just a bit unrealistic don’t you think? The Mayor could had made it mandatory and loaded up the city busses, but he decided to do some politicking (kinda order the Feds to get it done and played chicken with the Feds at the expense of his own citizens).
St Bernard’s Parish (County most other places) had over 98% of ALL of their buildings destroyed completely, along with the fisheries and other industry. About 60% of all residents in N.O. were also uninhabitable, my guess is they 30-40% still cant be. You see it was the residential areas that were flooded. Where would you have these folks go/do? Most folks don’t want hand outs, they want their representatives to clean up the mess so they can put the pieces back together, just like N.Y did after the attacks, just like Miss, Fla, and Texas are doing.
Sure lumping all of us as (a bunch of undeserving freeloaders and fraudulent crooks) is easy to say, but it simply isn’t reality. Most of the resident haven’t come back because their is no place to live, the rest were not property owners and probably aren’t coming back. We were descended by crooked contractors and Illegal immigrants who have under cut our skilled labor so badly that our already depressed wages have fallen. We used to have about (I am guessing) 1-3% Hispanic folks here, now they must be at least 15-25% of the population of N.O and surrounding area. I have way too many horror stories to know that what you said simply isn’t reality. We don’t want your sympathy, but we really could do without your insults as well. The folks in the affected area did not ask for this, the failing and fraud has little to do with the majority of folks down here.

Bush wasn’t alone in this either. Congress was giddy with the outflow of taxpayer money to the region – especially New Orleans. The problem is the Federal Government HELLO! Our government is incapable of reasonable use of resources and is incompetent at doing anything efficiently.

Here’s what should have been done: do everything possible to rescue the irresponsible and the unfortunate from the aftermath of the storm. Then let charities, and the free market do what’s necessary for the recovery.

I guess I just don’t like my income being forcibly diverted from me and given to a bunch of undeserving freeloaders and fraudulent crooks.

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ajmontana
The residents did not reelect Mayor Nagin or Congressman Jefferson. In both cases the out of state vote was as big as the instate vote. Add Gov Blanco in with this group and you have our States worst set of politicians, and the biggest cataserfy These guy did very little campaign here, believe me they are not very popular either. Most city residents are appalled by having these crooks represent them.

PierreLegrand
I feel for you and your mother. My SiL and Daughter also lost their place, they wanted to rebuild but cannot secure insurance because of the cities refusal to clean up and start up other city owned municipalities. The housing market was predictable, unfortunately it is affecting all areas that had a spiked population.

msplitt
Those folks you mention are chicken feed compared to the out of state contractors and Government officials and other business type fraud. The Bush administration was so ridiculed in the news that they virtually paid anyone asking for a check, believe me they had FEMA folks trying to give out Visas in Baton Rouge and other areas that were not even hit. They even passed them out at the hospital on the north shore were my wife works, yea their is fraud but it was equal opportunity fraud. And if your counting the cash, I don’t think that the Race was won by who you think. The feds made the fraud too easy, folks that should not had accepted probably did not even realize they shouldn’t had. You have to remember, many of us were with out Elec, Water, for many weeks, (17days where I live), plus fuel went up and stayed up for weeks. I had 21 trees and half of every other one on my 4 acre property blown down, but just 20 miles west they never lost Elec. So let me tell you the half’s and the have-nots were on a thin line and the feds were not taking chances.

Not all residents of New Orleans are entitled to aid. Only thise affected. There were many who weren’t

Realy, how does that work? Trust me everyone was affected. Most property owners still are!

Wow, how politically incorrect was that statement?

Not all residents of New Orleans are entitled to aid. Only thise affected. There were many who weren’t.

We’ve had 3 or 4 cases here in Denver of Katrina fraud. All were residents or had ties to residents in New Orleans. All were charged with fraud and all were black. I’m not saying all 11,000 cases of fraud were by the black community. But I would like to see the statistics, and then I would like to hear Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton comment on those statistics.

My point is libs will put race labels on everything. And if 9,500 of those 11,000 fraud cases were commited by whites, believe me, it would be front page news.

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http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4130

I spent an additional 60+ days in MS as tthe Operations Section Chief. MS was hit hard, much harder than LA. In many places along the coast there was nothing standing for 5 blocks. Yet, we did not encounter many of the problems in LA. The basic reason being, the mayors, town councils, police, fire dept personnel were there.

One of the major mis-understandings concerning FEMA is, FEMA is basically a support agency. They bring in talent, equipment, supplies and ‘assist’ the local government with recovery. When there is no, or a hostile, local government, it just doesn’t work. FEMA has neither the local knowledge, or trust, to take the place of the local officials.

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Oh, don’t you mean the JESUS party? Little hard for an American Hindu to support it…

Though the housing prices have plummeted as of late.