Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/peter_king/05/02/mmqbte/index.html" target="_blank">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c om/2006/writers/peter_king/05/02/mmqbte/index.html</a>
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I'm so frustrated and ashamed over this I can't even articulate my feeling well. It's disgusting, wrong and sad.
Originally Posted By DlandDug It is frustrating. I can only imagine how personally viewing the situation brings it into such sharp focus. But, to be blunt, what do the people of New Orleans want? The claim was made that if it had been New York or Los Angeles, all effort would be made to help. But (and here's the crux of this thing), people in new York and Los Angeles wouldn't sit around and wait for help. This writer wondered why only Michael Brown lost his job over this debacle. (And it's been a debacle on all levels, don't get me wrong.) Yet, he quotes Ray Nagin, the man who presided over this calamity at a very personal, very local level. Millions of dollars have been expended to help the beleagured people of New Orleans. And we now know that vast sums of this money was squandered by the very people who now claim they are being ignored. The hard truth is that it is difficult to drum up sympathy for people who are sitting on their hands, except when it comes time for a hand-out. I, too, have no idea what can be done about this. It's just... frustrating.
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Originally Posted By wahooskipper Agreed...if this were New York or LA the people of those towns would be doing more to help themselves than New Orleans is. Michael Brown should have been fired, no doubt. But the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisana should also be held accountable.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Well, after 9/11 New York sure didn't sit around waiting. Yeah, the WTC site is just now starting construction, but everything else had to go back to some semblance of normal downtown. This is not to say that the Katrina cleanup should be ignored, but it takes more than government funding to rebuild...
Originally Posted By Beaumandy If Nagin is re - elected then the people of New Orleans will officially be the dumbest people in America.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The Lower 9th Ward should be bulldozed and made into a park or wetlands area. The place is a disaster waiting to happen. Very few of the residents intend to come back from what I've read. They had very little to come back for, and most have found lives as good or better elsewhere. Sorry folks, but I get tired of people rebuilding in the same damn place after hurricanes and floods. Anyone rebuilding in a high-risk are should not get one dime of insurance or public assistance in my opinion. New Orleans TRIED to start clearing out the Lower 9th Ward area but had to stop because a few community activists threw a hissy-fit. The quicker that area is bulldozed the better off the city will be. Nagin needs to show some guts and send the bulldozers back in.
