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Survivor: New Orleans
I was gonna blog yesterday about the one-year “anniversary” of Hurricane Katrina, but I’ve had trouble finding time enough, so it took me until today to get this one finished.
The storm didn’t touch me personally, nor did it affect many people I know. So I view it from an admittedly detached point of view. That said, it’s not hard to see the extreme levels of tragedy and loss associated with the damage left behind by the hurricane. And the incompetence of the government at all levels.
President Bush was back in New Orleans yesterday, accessing the progress and apologizing for the government’s sloppy reponse.
Yet Mayor Ray Nagin continues to shoot off his mouth and ignore his own ineptitude.
Like, um, remember this?
255 buses left abandoned and unused in New Orleans:
… we count 255 buses in that one lot. That means at a capacity of 66 on board, 16,830 New Orleans residents could have been evacced out in one trip. Even if you have a lower capacity per bus, say 50 per bus, you’re still getting nearly 13,000 out in one run. In an emergency mandatory evacuation, you could probably get away with putting more than 66 on each of those buses.
And that’s without even getting into how his Martin Luther King Jr Day speech said that it was God’s anger with America over the Iraq war that caused Hurricane Katrina and that New Orleans should remain a “chocolate city.”
“We ask black people: it’s time. It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.This city will be a majority African-American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way; it wouldn’t be New Orleans.”
Yeah, folks. That’s some gooooood leadership there! And no racism, either. (Can you imagine the response if the comments were reversed and made by a white mayor about building a majority-white city?)
But why should we focus on local government, who has immediate responsibility for its citizens, when it’s so much easier to criticize President Bush? One year later, it’s still easier to just stick it to Bush.
In spite of the fact that Bush was there in New Orleans accepting responsibility in person, Liberals like Senator Ted Kennedy wasted no time in renewing their attack on the Bush administration (some of his comments quoted in italics below). For them, nothing is ever good enough. (h/t: Crush Liberalism)
One year later, hundreds of thousands of families from New Orleans and the Gulf are still without jobs and unable to return to their homes.
Still without jobs? I know there were lots of great people who were displaced by the catastrophe, but from what I see here in Dallas, there are plenty of Katrina refugees that are content to sit on their asses and NOT EVEN LOOK for work. Oh, but they do seem eager to commit crimes or trash the apartment complexes which took them in. Nice.
One year later, the administration has used less than half of the $110 billion in federal aid approved by Congress to help people rebuild their lives.
No big shock here, Democrats complaining that federal money isn’t being spent fast enough. Maybe the government just isn’t buying sex changes, football season tickets and tropical vacations fast enough for Democrat tastes.
One year later, families in New Orleans are still waiting for trailers to live in and for demolition and clean up crews to clear their neighborhoods so they can rebuild their homes.
Why are these people still waiting ONE YEAR LATER? Are they truly waiting around, or have they moved on with their lives and are simply waiting their turn at rebuilding? If my family was stranded there, you can bet your ass I’d be doing something to provide for them. Either he’s lying, or he’s denigrating the efforts of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, as if they are helpless puppies who need to wait on government assistance.
One year later, half of the city’s hospitals remain closed and less than half of the New Orleans public schools plan to reopen this fall.
Which also means that one year later, half the city’s hospitals are open. Is half the city’s population back in New Orleans yet? Do they need more hospital rooms or public schools than what is currently available? Is the need greater than the current capacity? That seems a more relevant question.
One year later, the levees are no safer than the day Katrina hit.
Yes, folks, that’s right. The Bush administration is unable to remove every aspect of risk that exists in life. President Bush doesn’t have unlimited godlike powers, but apparently the Democrats do. And they’re holding back their abilities until they receive enough votes, I guess. Then they’ll swoop in and grace us with their plans for hurricane-proof levees.
Even if Bush had a magic wand and could wave it and restore everything in New Orleans back to perfect condition, Dems would find a way to complain that he didn’t transport every family back to their homes, too.
One year later, there are still plenty of problems in New Orleans. Some are of its own making. Some are due to federal bureaucracy. But the infrastructure of the city is slowly coming back to life. Which is not bad considering how widespread the devastation is. Still, many areas remain untouched so there’s a lot to be done.
One of the biggest challenges for new New Orleans will be in living with their choice to re-elect a racist incompetent as their mayor.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
