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Originally Posted by saltwn
One thing's for sure. If the people who didn't want to leave their homes were one can short of a six pack, that mining disaster in the east showed us white people can act stupid on T.V. too.
I've met several "displaced" Katrina people across the country while traveling with my husband. All of them said they were better off. And that includes some whites and some blacks.
If I had had the luck and grace of God to escape such a storm, I would not set my foot back into New Orleans till officials burned every scrap of everything and started COMPLETELY over. That's what should have been done. But greed and "the tourist trade" wouldn't allow that.
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Most people have never been through a hurricane and the recovery and have no knowledge of New Orleans then or now. The MSM spun it in order to attack Bush rather than dealing with the failures of the state and local government, and the people who simply refused to take responsibilty for themselves. We are into the season now and I no more expect the federal government to be the source of rescue and recovery now than I did 5 years ago or 10 years ago. I don't expect the President to come down and direct such efforts nor any federal official, they don't have the knowledge nor the training to do so in my city or state. NOLA is slowly coming around and my last visit could really see some of the change. Unfortuniately lots of things aren't changing and that includes a large part of the population which still waits for government to take care of them.