posted on August 23, 2006 01:06:57 PM new
WHEN VOTING ON NOVEMBER 7TH 2006. ASK YOURSELF WHAT HAVE THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS DONE RIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY?
I KNOW ONE THING THE NEO-CONS ARE DOING VERY WELL EVERYDAY. THE NEO-CONS ARE MAKING THE RICH RICHER AND THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS AMERICAN POORER.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE PHOTO OPS AND BIG TALK FROM BUSH ABOUT REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS. I SAY THEY WERE JUST ANOTHER "DOIN A GREAT JOB BROWNIE" CON JOB.
Reports Document Post-Katrina Failures
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:09 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — No less than a half-dozen reports on the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort are being released to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the storm — and nearly all criticize the sluggish pace of the response.
The reports document a host of problems, from the still-unfinished levees to the plight of small businesses and the city's continuing racial divide.
"It's a pretty bleak picture," said Minor Sinclair, who heads the U.S. regional office of Oxfam America, a charitable organization.
Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets. Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state.
A report from the Democratic members of the House Small Business Committee found that 80 percent of small businesses on the Gulf Coast have not yet received loans promised by the federal government. The Small Business Administration has approved loans in excess of $10 billion, but only $2 billion has found its way to business owners.
The report also cited massive delays at the federal agency, forcing some business owners to wait as long as 100 days for a decision on loan applications.
"These long delays have not only caused many viable small businesses to fail that would have otherwise survived, but has contributed to the slow recovery of the local economy," the report said.
SBA spokeswoman Anne Marie Frawley said late Tuesday that the agency has approved more than 156,700 loans, 52 percent of them to businesses. Money has been sent to more than 100,000 recipients, she said.
Frawley said that it isn't surprising that all the approved loans haven't yet been disbursed. Thirty-two percent of approved loans remained undisbursed a year after the 2004 hurricanes in Florida, while a year after Katrina, 29 percent remain undisbursed, she said.
Three reports found that the lack of federal aid disproportionately affects black residents and the poor.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, blacks are more likely to be renters than whites, two reports noted, citing census data. Though a large proportion of the dwellings destroyed by Katrina were occupied by renters, only a fraction of the federal housing assistance has been earmarked for rental units, according to several of the studies.
A report by the Mississippi conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said the lack of rental aid will have long-term impacts on places like Biloxi, Miss., where 70 percent of renters were black, and Pascagoula, where 75 percent were black. A report by the Brookings Institution in Washington argued that with rents having risen 39 percent in New Orleans, the need to repair affordable rental units is crucial.
Compounding the problem is the degradation of such services as public transit, which are typically used by low-income residents. A policy paper by the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights found that only 49 percent of the New Orleans area bus routes have resumed. Only 17 percent of the buses are operational.
"Many of the poor in New Orleans do not own cars ... so they are dependent on public transportation in order to work," the paper said.
Several studies said the lack of affordable housing continues to weaken the labor pool.
"If people have nowhere to live or if they can't afford to live where they work, it becomes difficult for them to go where the jobs are. ... The end result is that recovery in the struggling areas is being slowed, sometimes to a near halt," said a report by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana.
Amy Liu, author of the Brookings Institution report, pointed to streets that are still choked with debris as evidence of the failings of the recovery effort.
"These still storm-scarred neighborhoods are a stark reminder of the magnitude of the storm," she wrote. "But they also hang like billboards, advertising that little progress has been made."
posted on August 23, 2006 02:35:41 PM new
Hey stupid, you realize that all this money that isn't getting to "da peeple" and all of the billions in the past that were not used on levees but instead diverted to "other uses" have nothing to do with "conservative Republicans".
The other party's been running things there for many decades.
posted on August 23, 2006 03:20:51 PM new duhsquirrel writes, "Hey stupid, you realize that all this money that isn't getting to "da peeple" and all of the billions in the past that were not used on levees but instead diverted to "other uses" have nothing to do with "conservative Republicans". The other party's been running things there for many decades.
WRONG...
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
The truth is that the "Republican" Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army corp of Engineers for projects specifically designed to strengthen levees. Local "Democratic" officials had been complaining about that for years.
posted on August 23, 2006 04:18:07 PM new
"The truth is that the "Republican" Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army corp of Engineers for projects specifically designed to strengthen levees. Local "Democratic" officials had been complaining about that for years."
The levees have been a problem for many,many years.If they had been complaining about it for years,why didnt they request the money from the Clinton Administration? What the hell were they waiting for, the 2nd coming of Christ??
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If you dont want to hear the truth....dont ask the question.
posted on August 23, 2006 05:47:01 PM new
desquirrel,
You can call me anything you want it doesn't matter. You say I am "STUPID". LOL I am glad to say I was not stupid enough to vote for the political movement wacko people like you call "CONSERVATIVE". Truth is even the real Conservative Republicans have turned their backs on you NEOCON CON-SERVATIVES.
Are you going to call the 5 Damming reports "STUPID"? The reports that tell how the present NEOCON CON-SERVATIVE government has failed New Orleans in this last year?
You can just go back to your squirrel hole and hide from the truth all you want. The truth is your form of government has failed and been exposed for its failures.
I FOR ONE PROMISE ALL YOU PHONY,WACKO,LIAR CON-SERVATIVES ONE THING. I WILL NOT FORGET THE HARM YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THIS WONDERFUL COUNTRY WHILE IN THE VOTING BOOTH ON 11/07/06.
BTW is that a new quoit from BUSH when he is talking about "da peeple" of New Orleans? Or should I just stick to the old standby "YOUR DOIN A HECK OF A JOB BROWNIE"?
posted on August 24, 2006 12:04:23 PM new
desquirrel,
Question is the quoit "da peeple" a personal quoit from you as a Christian Conservative Republican?
If not did the words "da peeple" come from one of your Christian Conservative lawmakers?
I just hope THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES turn out in droves on 11/07/06 to defeat people like you that use words like "da peeple" in a mocking way.
It easy to send a squirrel back to their dark hole because like the rat family they come from squirrels are timid and frightened.
posted on August 24, 2006 04:00:06 PM new
And yet, all of the failures in the N.O. area can be tracked back to the Democratic lack of leadership. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
This only goes to show how out of touch the bigdopa and helenw (w standing for witch) and the rest of the demomorons are.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on August 24, 2006 05:37:27 PM new
Don't know what a "quoit" is, but I was referring to the fact that every one of your dumb posts seems like you're typing with one had and holding the Nicoli Lenin phrase book with the other.
I and neither "Christian", particularly consevative, or a registered Republican.
posted on August 24, 2006 07:37:42 PM new
desquirrel,
B.S. you just let your HIDDEN MOCKING RACIST side show.
In case you missed it here is just a few words from my post.
"Many of the reports focus on the failure of federal dollars to reach their intended targets. Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state."
In case you have forgotten for a short while longer our Federal Government is controlled by LIAR BUSH and his LOCK STEPPING CONSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS.
Don't you remember all of the Bush photo ops from New Orleans and LIAR BUSH'S PROMISES. The reports are pointing out that Bush and this NEOCON government has LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAIN. SIMPLY PUT THEY HAVE FAILED TO DELIVER ON THEIR PROMISES END OF STORY!!!
Are both you and stone naive enough to think the American people are going to forget Bush's Blunders in NEW ORLEANS OR HIS BLUNDERS IN IRAQ OR HIS WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.
posted on August 24, 2006 07:45:43 PM new
"Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state."
Can't believe you are so stupid to paste this and then carry on about a Republican Congress and President.
Ever wonder why the other whack packers here never leap to your defense????
posted on August 25, 2006 05:04:30 AM new
"YOUR DOIN A HECK OF A JOB BROWNIE"
BUSH AND HIS CONSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS ARE IN CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT AND NOT ONE NEW HOUSE HAS BEEN BUILT IN NEW ORLEANS.
YOUR DOIN A HECK OF A JOB BUSHY NOT!!!!
desquirrel's, "da peeple" on November 7th 2006 are going to turn out in masses to start defeating people that MOCKINGLY call fellow Americans "da peeple"
"I DON'T GIVE THEM HELL. I JUST TELL THEM THE TRUTH AND THEY THINK ITS HELL" HARRY TRUMAN
posted on August 25, 2006 12:40:06 PM new
Just like the typical demomoron, when the bigdopa gets called on something, he quickly changes the subject.
Oxfam's report points out that although $17 billion has been approved by Congress to rebuild homes in Louisiana and Mississippi, not one house has been rebuilt with that money in either state."
This is because the complete failures of the demomorons in charge that can't get their collective heads out of the azzess and get some homes built. The money is there. Start using it for what it was intended for and not for your narrow minded agenda.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on August 26, 2006 03:12:06 PM new
stone, knows its an old trick of "YOUR DOING A HECK OF A JOB BUSY AND FEMA". This government talks big about helping with money and then doesn't get it to the right places.
It like HOW money is being spend in Iraq a small example is below.
08/26/06 AP: Ex-officer admits Iraq bribe scheme
A former U.S. Army Reserve officer admitted yesterday that he steered millions of dollars in Iraq-reconstruction contracts in exchange for jewelry, computers, cigars and sexual favors.
THIS GUY MUST BE TUNING UP TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AS A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. HE WOULD FIT RIGHT IN WITH BUSHY AND THE BOYS.
posted on August 26, 2006 03:38:41 PM new
stonecold,
Below is a few months worth of information on BUSHY job on New Orleans.
It might just bring you up to date.
MARCH
1st – TAPES SHOWING BUSH BEING WARNED OF A POTENTIAL BREACH IN THE LEVEES ARE RELEASED [Washington Post, 3/1/06]
2nd – UNCERTAINTY STILL REIGNS IN NEW ORLEANS: “Now six months since Katrina made landfall, New Orleans remains primarily in a gut and wait mode. Homeowners have gutted their houses, but are waiting to invest in their homes until they receive greater signs of certainty.” [Brookings, 3/2/06]
5th – CONSERVATIVE CRITICIZES RESPONSE TO KATRINA: Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol said that Bush’s handling of the disaster had become “an emblem of the administration that just isn’t as serious about the competent execution of the functions of government as it should be.” [Fox News Sunday, 3/5/06]
8th – TIM McGRAW AND FAITH HILL, NATIVES OF LOUISIANA, CALL RECOVERY EFFORTS “HUMILIATING”: McGraw specifically criticized President Bush. “There’s no reason why someone can’t go down there who’s supposed to be the leader of the free world … and say, ‘I’m giving you a job to do and I’m not leaving here until it’s done. And you’re held accountable, and you’re held accountable, and you’re held accountable.’” [ABC, 3/8/06]
15th – A STUDY FINDS THAT THE WHITE HOUSE HAS REJECTED HURRICANE DISASTER-RECOVERY LOANS AT A HIGHER RATE THAN ANY OTHER ADMINISTRATION IN THE LAST 15 YEARS [USA Today, 3/15/06]
19th – THE BROADEST COUNSELING PROGRAM EVER GETS UNDERWAY: An estimated 500,000 people need some form of mental health service, but “even people trained to offer solace break down easily and often.” [Baltimore Sun, 3/20/06]
21st – THE LARGEST CHILD-RECOVERY EFFORT IN U.S. HISTORY ENDS: Six months after Katrina, 5,192 children are reunited with their family members. [USA Today, 3/21/06]
30th – BUSH ADMINISTRATION MISCALCULATES COST OF REBUILDING LEVEES: “The Bush administration said yesterday that the cost of rebuilding New Orleans’s levees to federal standards has nearly tripled to $10 billion and that there may not be enough money to fully protect the entire region.” [Washington Post, 3/31/06]
APRIL
4th – MARY LANDRIEU (D-LA) THREATENS TO PLACE HOLDS ON THE PRESIDENT’S NOMINEES: “Mr. President, the piecemeal approach that has marked your administration’s response to providing adequate levee and flood protection for Louisiana has not worked,” Landrieu wrote. “It needs to be replaced by a comprehensive approach that is both more effective and cost-efficient.” [The Hill, 4/5/06]
6th – BUSH NOMINATES R. DAVID PAULISON TO HEAD FEMA: Seven other candidates turned down the post. [CBS News, 4/6/06]
12th – THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ISSUES LONG-AWAITED CONSTRUCTION GUIDELINES FOR KATRINA-AFFECTED REGIONS [WP, 4/13/06]
14th – THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FAULTS ITSELF: “After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, [Homeland Security’s] prevention and preparedness for terrorism have overshadowed that for natural hazards, both in perception and in application,” the report reads. [CBS News, 4/14/06]
17th – “KATRINA KIDS” SING FOR LAURA BUSH: Today at the White House Easter Egg Roll, dozens of children “from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.” To the tune of “Hey Look Me Over,” the kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:
“Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!” [ThinkProgress, 4/17/06]
24th – HOUSING SECRETARY SAYS ONLY THE “BEST RESIDENTS” SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO HOUSING COMPLEX: Alphonso Jackson added: “I don’t care what color they are, if they are devastating a community, they shouldn’t be allowed to return.” [USA TODAY, 4/25/06]
25th – BUSH ASKS CONGRESS FOR ADDITIONAL $2.2 BILLION TO REPAIR LEVEES: The move comes after the government announced it had initially underestimated the amount needed to repair New Orleans’ damaged levees. Bush, however, said that this request should come out of FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund. [Bush, 4/25/06]
27th – SENATE RELEASES 800-PAGE REPORT: The only national bipartisan inquiry in the country faults the Administration for “bungling the storm response by neglecting warnings, failing to grasp Katrina’s destructiveness, doing too little or taking the wrong steps before the Aug. 29 landfall.” [hsgac.senate.gov, 4/27/06]
27th – BUSH MAKES 11TH TRIP TO DAMAGED GULF COAST SINCE KATRINA LANDED: “If you are interested in helping the victims of Katrina, interested in helping them get back on their feet, come on down here.” [Washington Post, 4/28/06]
MAY
2nd – FEMA CLOSES ITS LONG-TERM RECOVERY OFFICE IN NEW ORLEANS [AP, 5/2/06]
8th – 7.2 MILLION TONS OF DEBRIS YET TO BE REMOVED AS LANDFILL DEBATE RAGES [New York Times, 5/8/06]
10th – LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS APPROVE $7.5 BILLION AID PROGRAM FOR HOMEOWNERS [Boston Globe, 5/10/06]
18th – DEATH TOLL OF LOUISIANA REACHES 1,577: “A continuing rise in reports of out-of-state deaths” has increased Louisiana’s official Katrina toll by 22 percent. [The Times-Picayune, 5/19/06]
20th – NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN IS REELECTED [ABC, 5/20/06]
JUNE
1st – FEMA CLOSES THE LAST FOUR CAMPS THAT HOUSE AND FEED RECOVERY VOLUNTEERS [The Times-Picayune, 5/31/06]
5th – THE FIRST CRIMINAL TRIALS SINCE KATRINA OPEN [Fox News, 6/6/06]
15th – PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNS ADDITIONAL SPENDING OF $19.4 BILLION FOR KATRINA RELIEF: $4.2 billion goes towards housing. The package brings the total allocated by the federal government for recovery efforts to around $107 billion. [Brookings, 7/1/06]
16th – DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SAYS THAT NEW ORLEANS IS NOT PREPARED FOR ANOTHER DISASTER [DHS, 6/16/06]
19th – NEW ORLEANS CONVENTION CENTER REOPENS [mccno.com, 6/20/06]
26th – $2 BILLION IN TAX DOLLARS FOR RELIEF LOST TO WASTE AND FRAUD: “The estimate of up to $2 billion in fraud and waste represents nearly 11 percent of the $19 billion spent by FEMA on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as of mid-June, or about 6 percent of total money that has been obligated.” [New York Times, 6/26/06]
JULY
3rd – SEXUAL ASSAULTS AMONG KATRINA EVACUEES CLIMB ALARMINGLY: “We have families doubling and tripling up in substandard housing, families living with extended family members they wouldn’t normally choose to live with,” said Alisa Klein, a public health and violence prevention specialist with the nonprofit National Sexual Violence Resource Center in Harrisburg, Pa. “We’re seeing this increased vulnerability to sexual violence…” [Women eNews, 7/3/06]
11th – DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT APPROVES $4.2 BILLION FOR LOUISIANA’S REBUILDING PROGRAM [USA Today, 7/11/06]
21st – NEW ORLEANS RESIDENTS FACE HIGHER ELECTRICITY PRICES AMID BLACKOUTS: “Ten months after Hurricane Katrina, the city still does not have a reliable electrical system. Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of repairs are still needed on a system devastated by flooding, the local utility is in bankruptcy and less than half the system’s prestorm customers have returned.” [New York Times, 7/22/06]
26th – MAYOR RAY NAGIN OUTLINES 100-DAY PLAN TO REBUILD NEW ORLEANS [BayouBuzz.com, 7/26/06]
28th – U.N. CRITICIZES THE U.S. FOR FAILING TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR: A panel of 18 UN poverty experts said it was concerned that the poor, especially African-Americans, “were disadvantaged by the rescue and evacuation plans implemented when Hurricane Katrina hit the United States of America.” [Mississippi Sun Herald, 7/28/06]
AUGUST
3rd – GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION OF NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPTARTMENT IS LAUNCHED: Law enforcement officials from Gretna prevented the evacuees, most of them black, from crossing a Mississippi River bridge into the predominantly white suburb. [Los Angeles Times, 8/4/06]
7th – FIRST WAVE OF NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS OPEN: Eight new public schools open giving 4,000 students an early start on the school year. [CNN, 8/7/06]
8th – NEW ORLEANS STILL NOT BACK ON TRACK: One year after Katrina, New Orleans is showing signs of early rebirth…but the majority of indicators are troubling, pointing to much-needed progress in basic city services, infrastructure, and affordable housing for workers in order to boost market confidence and move the region’s economy affirmatively forward.
posted on August 27, 2006 07:37:45 PM new
stonecold and desquirrel caught in NEOCON lies again about Federal money BEING SENT TO NEW ORLEANS. Its very sad NEOCONS can't stop being LIARS. NEOCONS talk big but deliver little.
"YOUR DOING A GREAT JOB BROWNIE"
"Only $117 million in at least $25 billion in federal aid has reached the city, while federal investigators determined that roughly $2 billion in taxpayer money was wasted in no-bid contracts and disaster aid to people who did not need the help."
Most Say U.S. Isn't Ready for Major Disaster
By HOPE YEN, AP
AP Only a third of those questioned thought President Bush did a good job handling damage from Hurricane Katrina.
WASHINGTON (Aug. 27) - Their confidence shaken by Katrina, most Americans don't believe the nation is ready for another major disaster, a new AP-Ipsos poll finds.
Poor people are more likely to fear becoming victims of the next disaster.
The survey, conducted one year after the devastating hurricane and with much of New Orleans still in shambles, found diminishing faith in the government's ability to deal with emergencies. It also gave President Bush poor marks for his handling of the storm's aftermath.
The region could get an eerily timed test of preparedness with forecasters concerned that a storm system named Ernesto could be at hurricane strength as it crosses over Cuba and heads across the Florida Keys this week.
Fifty-seven percent in the poll said they felt at least somewhat strongly the country was ill-prepared - up from 44 percent in the days after the storm slammed ashore on Aug. 29, 2005. Just one in three Americans polled believe Bush did a good job with Katrina, down from 46 percent a year ago.
"Nobody actually realized soon enough what the scope of this thing was," said Frank Sheppard, a 63-year-old retiree in Valrico, Fla., who considers himself strongly Republican. "The day after, people were actually celebrating."
"They didn't realize that the levees were deteriorating and breaking at that time," he said.
One year after Katrina, large areas of New Orleans remain virtually uninhabitable with piles of debris and wrecked cars.
Only $117 million in at least $25 billion in federal aid has reached the city, while federal investigators determined that roughly $2 billion in taxpayer money was wasted in no-bid contracts and disaster aid to people who did not need the help.
Norma Guelker, 55, of Bay St. Louis, Miss., still lives in a FEMA trailer after Katrina flooded her home with seven feet of water. She says there's no way the government is ready.
Blaming Bush, she said: "There's no reason for him to be concerned about the people who live here. They're not the people who vote for him."
Bush, who visits the recovering storm zone Monday and Tuesday, has sought to deflect the torrent of criticism, saying that rebuilding takes time.
Democrats are hoping to capitalize for the November congressional elections, such as among black and poor people, many of whom were unable to escape Katrina and the flooding it caused.
On Monday, Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee planned to release a fresh report that summarizes instances where small businesses in the Gulf Coast region were hurt as limited- or no-bid contracts were awarded to politically connected large firms in the weeks after the storm.
YOUR DOIN A LOUSY JOB BUSHY.
REMEMBER NEW ORLEANS WHEN YOU VOTE ON NOVEMBER 7TH 2006.
posted on August 27, 2006 09:55:58 PM newREMEMBER NEW ORLEANS WHEN YOU VOTE ON NOVEMBER 7TH 2006.
I couldn't agree more. Vote out all those incompetent demomorons that have completely failed the people of N.O.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on August 30, 2006 12:04:41 PM new
hey stone,
Did you see Spike Lee's film on Katrina? If not you really should to bring yourself up to date on what really happened in New Orleans last year and today.
NO MATTER WHAT LIARS LIKE YOU SAY. NO ONE CAN COVER UP FOR THE FAILURES BUSH AND HIS REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED CONGRESS MADE IN NEW ORLEANS!!
Yes WHEN VOTING IN NOVEMBER REMEMBER HOW BUSH AND HIS CONGRESS FAILED NEW ORLEANS LAST YEAR AND TODAY.
LIKE THE MESS IN IRAQ. I AM SURE BUSHY IS SAYING IN PRIVATE OH WELL SOME OTHER PRESIDENT CAN CLEAN UP THE NEW ORLEANS MESS.
WHILE BUSH PLAYED A GUITAR AND VACATIONED PEOPLE DIED.
WHILE CANDI RICE BOUGHT SHOES,WENT TO A BROADWAY PLAY AND PLAYED TENNIS PEOPLE DIED.
posted on August 30, 2006 08:31:13 PM new
Hey bigdopa,
Have you been watching any reputable source at all? If so, you would see the complete failures of the local government especially at the state level. And it continues.
Did you see Spike Lee's film on Katrina?
Everything that loser has done in the past ten years has been garbage. So consider the source.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on August 31, 2006 05:40:21 AM new
Don't worry classic. Every time bigdopa speaks, he exposes what an idiot he really is. He always tries to push the attention away from himself when he has been proven wrong time and time again. Just like in this case. He can't handle his own short comings and feels the need to push it my way.
Sad thing is, I don't have to post anything of any substance with this guy to send him into a quivering rampage. He's sort of like a fish flopping around on the shore line. And he can't even get his facts right. But that's another story.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on August 31, 2006 11:15:01 AM new
All you 2 NEOCONS (STONECOLD & CLASSIC) are showing me is a feeble attempt at COVER UP. Yes a COVER UP for the failures this CON-SERVATIVE MOVEMENT'S President and Congress made and is still making in New Orleans.
The failures are so UNDENIABLE that even BUSH ADMITS THEM AND TAKES CREDIT FOR THEM IN HIS SPEECH JUST A FEW DAYS AGO. NOW STONE TRIES TO DENY THESE FAILURES. PATHETIC
THE MINORITY OF AMERICAS THAT STILL FEEBLY SUPPORT BUSH AND HIS LOCK STEPPING LAWMAKERS CAN'T PROVE A STATEMENT OR FACT WRONG THEY START CALLING NAMES.
IN MY OPINION THESE POOR PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED AND UNINFORMED.
HEY AMERICA JUST REMEMBER THIS QUOTE WHEN VOTING IN NOVEMBER.
"BROWNIE YOUR DOIN A HECK OF A JOB"
OR HOW ABOUT THE PHOTOS OF THOUSANDS OF TRAILERS THE TAX PAYERS BOUGHT SETTING IN A FIELD.
HEY CLASSIC YOUR RIGHT I AM THE "POT" AND STONE IS THE "KETTLE". I DO THE COOKING AND ALL THE KETTLE DOES IS BLOW HOT AIR AND WHISTLE.
posted on August 31, 2006 02:21:07 PM new
HEY BUSH NO MORE NEW ORLEANS PHOTO OPS,NO MORE BROKEN PROMISES AND LIP SERVICE. GET THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS THE FEDERAL MONEY PLEDGED TO REBUILD THEIR HOMES NOW!!!!
HEY BUSH NOT ONE NEW HOME HAS BEEN BUILT ON THE GULF COAST ONE YEAR LATER USING PLEDGED FEDERAL MONEY, NOT ONE!!!!
HEY BUSH GET OFF YOUR AZZ, GET OFF VACATION AND DO YOUR JOB OR RESIGN!!!
Aug. 29, 2006, 10:57PM
New Orleans remembers Katrina with style
NEW ORLEANS — The first anniversary of the biggest calamity to befall this city was marked Tuesday with a moment of silence, wreath-layings, the tolling of bells and, in true New Orleans fashion, a wailing jazz funeral through the potholed streets for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Jazz musicians marched ahead of a horse-drawn hearse, a symbol of the city's watery death. They played a dirge for the more than 1,800 people killed when Katrina came ashore. But the ensemble soon exploded into a joyful rhythm, the marchers opening colorful parasols and hoisting them toward the hot sun as they danced the city back to life.
Sandra Brown has made a point of wearing a black skirt or top since the hurricane, but she was shimmying behind the musicians on the roughly one-mile procession from the city's convention center to the Superdome _ both scenes of the storm's misery.
"I mourn for the lives lost. I still cry when I see the footage of last year," she said. "But you have to be hopeful."
Residents held vigils in pockmarked neighborhoods choked with weeds, in church pews and in gutted community centers. They rang bells to mark the collapse of the city's biggest levee and laid wreaths at the site of each successive break in the cement structure protecting the city.
They bowed their heads and closed their eyes in prayer, both for those no longer here and for the city's rebirth.
At a midday interfaith prayer service, Mayor Ray Nagin told the city it was time to take responsibility for rebuilding.
"If government can't get you your check on time, it says you need to do something," Nagin said. "It says your neighbors need to come together and all you need to do is cook a pot of red beans and they'll bring over the hammers and the nails."
Nagin met with President Bush, who bowed his head for the dead in St. Louis Cathedral, the city's mother church, and made an impassioned plea for the living.
"I know you love New Orleans, and New Orleans needs you," the president said. "She needs people coming home. She needs people _ she needs those saints to come marching back, is what she needs!"
On his way out of the city, Bush's motorcade drove to the shattered Lower Ninth Ward, where water from the buckled levees tore homes from their foundations and spit them into the street. He stopped at the destroyed home of New Orleans rock 'n' roller Fats Domino.
Not far away, people danced, sang and wept at the new concrete levee that replaced one that had split open on the Industrial Canal in the Lower Ninth.
Cedrick Johnson, 25, wiped away sweat and tears as he talked about the death of his grandmother, a longtime resident of the neighborhood.
"Look around. Look at all these empty lots. Why us?" he said. His shirt bore his grandmother's picture and the words: "Why Geraldine. Why?"
In Mississippi, where Katrina left 231 people dead, workers and families gathered for tearful remembrances, but there was also celebration. The $800 million Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi, one of more than a dozen casinos battered by the storm, reopened with 3,800 employees _ 400 more than before Katrina.
In Gulfport, Miss., two unidentified victims of last year's storm were given symbolic names _ "Will" and "Strength" _ before their bodies were laid to rest in a city-owned cemetery.
"God knew who these people were. He knew their names," said Chris Chavers, 38, of Lucedale, Miss.
At a memorial erected outside New Orleans' convention center _ where a year ago thousands of haggard refugees waited on the pavement in the sweltering sun, begging for food and water _ relatives of the dead came bearing flowers. They laid white carnations in front of the monument, one by one, reciting the names of lost loved ones.
Joyce Brulee was there to remember her 99-year-old father, Benjamin Francois, who died in a New Orleans nursing home. "He was so looking forward to his 100th birthday," Brulee said, adding that she was not able to claim his body until January.
The reminders of the destruction _ and how far the city still has to go _ are everywhere. White trailers still line driveways in neighborhoods where debris is stacked up in piles. Only half New Orleans' population of a half-million has returned. Emergency medical care is doled out in an abandoned department store, while six of city's nine hospitals remain closed. Only 54 of 128 public schools are expected to open this fall.
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Associated Press writer Stacey Plaisance and Becky Bohrer in New Orleans, Mary Foster in Buras, La., Michelle Roberts in Chalmette, La. and Michael Kunzelman in Gulfport, Miss. contributed to this report.
posted on September 1, 2006 01:29:20 PM newHEY BUSH NO MORE NEW ORLEANS PHOTO OPS,NO MORE BROKEN PROMISES AND LIP SERVICE. GET THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS THE FEDERAL MONEY PLEDGED TO REBUILD THEIR HOMES NOW!!!!
Hey bigdumbazz,
The money is there. What they need is for lazyazzes like yourself, to get up off of them and get to work. Stop waiting for everyone else to fix your own problem. We all have our own problems and we deal with them. It is time for N.O. to start dealing with the problem for themselves. It has been over a year since Katrina, get over it and start rebuilding.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on September 4, 2006 10:23:57 AM new
If anyone missed Spike Lee's HBO documentary about Katrina lenin has copies of Part 1 and 11 here and parts 111 and 1V here.
"If anything, the second half of this documentary is even more overwhelming than what preceded it. In the first half, you see the blocking of aid, the refusal to help, the police repression, the racist lies told, the planning that didn't help the poor, the shittiness of the levees that were supposed to protect people, the history of disasters striking New Orleans, the way the government dynamited the levees in 1927 and 1965, the suspicions of local residents that the government blew them up again, the hideousness of Bush, the pandering of Nagin to the local business class before anyone else, the imposition of martial law (demanded by Bush), the pretense by FEMA not to know that people were in the convention centre. Okay, this was bad enough.
Take what happens next. The families are dispersed and broken up across the country (literally, families split up among different states with no communication between mother and son, brother and sister etc), and while they're away, the local elite figures they'll bulldoze the houses of the poor and reconstruct the city as a leaner, gentrified place for largely white rich people. Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers isn't sent in to clear up the rubble for months. The FEMA trailers don't have any electricity, and you'd be lucky even to get one. The insurance companies are ripping people off, refusing to pay a penny to people who were assured they had full flood and home protection, and the city figures it will do nicely out of this since nothing will be rebuilt, so they send in the bulldozers. What's more, because of their insistence on cancelling the rights of the poor to their homes, the local residents who are still around have to mount a fight to protect their right even to the lot of land they purchased to build their house on, and spent decades working to build up and pay for. The city doesn't bother rebuilding local schools unless they can get them on a privatised contract. In townhall meetings, residents put eloquent complaints forth. Nagin looks shifty. Then tells the camera that he always intended to rebuild all of New Orleans. Te Army Corps admits that their lousy work on the levees led to the disaster, but it's all okay for them because you can't sue those guys. FEMA decides its sick of paying for the dispersed survivors to live in shitty hotel rooms, so it announces in the small hours that the funding is being stopped. People are turfed out onto the streets in the middle of the night. Those who have gone back to their houses find them marked by FEMA spray paint indicating that no bodies have been found. They enter, only to find dead relatives lying amid the toxic sludge and strewn rubble. Turns out FEMA haven't been going into buildings they've marked as checked. The debris and garbage and smelly waste still lines the streets, to this day. Bodies are still being found. There are people dying of illnesses, of depression, of what people used to call a broken heart. The most shattering aspect of the whole documentary is the raw grief, and the sense of violation. There is, of course, huge hope and anger, and a drive to return and rebuild and scupper the plans of the old bluebloods who run the city. But there are many people who see nothing to come back to, and don't fancy waiting around to see what else the city has in store for them. No matter how strong the bonds to the city, and the uniqueness of it is delved into at some length, the history, the struggles of past generations - the fact is that no matter how much people feel for all of that, because the city has been ripped off along with the entire state of Louisiana in terms of federal funding for generations, there was hardly an infrastructure to start with. Schools were dyusfunctional, poverty was widespread and the consequent crime rate was making life unliveable for many. Many people see that and think they'd rather stay in Atlanta and send their kids to school. But the trouble is, where they aren't relying on local generosity, the federal funding is extremely limited and prone to sudden cut-off because the American state doesn't give a damn. So, there is a movement to protect the city, stop it from being turned into a themed gold course with some condominiums, hotels and tourist spots. And the anger is incredible, and it affects everyone. They are particularly incensed at being called refugees when they are citizens, who have paid taxes to the government and worked and lived and held American passports. Everyone keeps saying "I thought we lived in America". They do - but not the America they thought they lived in. Chavez was more interested in helping the poor of New Orleans than Bush was: what does this tell you?"
posted on September 4, 2006 01:56:02 PM new
Yeah, that terrible Bush, diverting money appropriated by Congress for levee repair for more than 30 years.
And imagine Nagin "catering" to people who actually pay taxes.
Those people "dispersed" to other states have been shown to be absolute gems that should be encouraged to return.
And to top it all off, they re-elect Nagin and crew!
Thanks for posting on how few death's we have had in this major war. It only proves how many lives have been saved because of this action.
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"Unfortunately there are levels of Stupid that just can't be cured!!" The new Demomoron motto.
