One Year Later, Who's to blame for state of New Orleans?

[leftchick]

This is just terrible. Where the hell are the cable news shows about this now?



Dorian Johnson (L), 16, cleans up garbage with family members near his great-grandmother's house, destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans August 19, 2006. REUTERS/Lee Celano (UNITED STATES)

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But the roll of those accused of failing New Orleans is a long one: State and local officials who had no good plan for the disaster, and now preside over a languid recovery. A president who at first seemed remote from the cataclysm, and then made promises that have not been fully realized.

So many did not live up their responsibilities, says G. Paul Kemp, a Louisiana State University engineer and member of Team Louisiana, a group of forensic engineers examining how the flooding occurred. Every time anyone points that out, "people say, `Oh, we don't want to play the blame game. We've got to get things moving.'"

But things are moving agonizingly slow. Piles of debris and wrecked cars are everywhere, and astonishingly, searchers were still finding bodies in ruined homes just weeks ago.

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Kroloff, the dean of Tulane's architecture school, thinks the federal government could easily have doubled or tripled the amount already committed to New Orleans. And he doesn't buy the excuse that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or other national priorities should prevent it.

"The rebuilding of this place neither taxes the imagination nor the resources of this country in any way," he says. The amount sent to the city so far is "ludicrous when you think of the relative value of this area to the rest of the country."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060819/ap_on_re_us/katrina_who_s_to_blame

[davidwparker]

1. still the * administration's fault

[leftchick]

2. kick

for New Orleans

[Dr.Phool]

3. I hate to tell you, but.....

New Orleans is a city.

[MisoWeaver]

4. State , as in 'condition'.

[Dr.Phool]

5. Welcome to DU

After you're here a while, you'll notice that some of us have a warped sense of humor.

[leftchick]

6. it is sad to have to clarify that

thank you for doing it for me and welcome to DU.