New Orleanians heap most Katrina blame on US govt

[UpInArms]

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NEW ORLEANS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - To hear Agnes Ferrell tell it, the only reason that U.S. President George W. Bush has mustered federal hurricane aid for New Orleans is that Mayor Ray Nagin would not leave him alone.

"The president wasn't doing anything until this man (Nagin) go up to him," she said recently while picking up some groceries at what appeared to be the only convenience store open in the Lower Ninth Ward.

A year after Hurricane Katrina swept through, killing more than 1,300 along the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center, and flooding 80 percent of New Orleans, many in the city blame the federal government -- and its slow response to the disaster -- most of all for their woes.

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Only about half of the city of New Orleans' residents are back and more than 100,000 families along the Gulf Coast live in government-issued trailers. Meanwhile, many fear the levees will not hold if another monster storm hits.

"If the levees had held, none of it would have happened," said David Fein, pouring daiquiris at a bar on Bourbon Street.

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[texpatriot2004]

1. The Federal Gov FAILED! Katrina came with a 5 day warning

not to mention the work they failed to do to prepare long before the storm was named Katrina. Then The Federal Gov failed again with that bungled, disaster of a rescue that IMHO was an intentional Cluster F___ on the part of this Administration.

[Double T]

2. On Monday of this week, at bush's press conference,.........

bush blamed Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco for delays in cleaning up and rebuilding New Orleans and Louisiana; what a ball-less low life loser.

[Acadia Blue]

3. Randi Rhodes read a very good article about Katrina just a second

ago. I think its posted at her site. I am in the Katrina area, and I blame the Federal government. When you believe that everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, what you get is the type of response Bush gave to N.O. The monkey moron was playing guitar while our city drowned. His mother pig thinks the people stuck in the Astrodome were better off than being in their modest apartments. How I wish these folks had to spend one day in the shoes of an ordinary underpaid American worker. How good it would be.