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THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS!

Once a magnet for tourists, conventioneers, music fans, sports freaks, and damn near anyone could always find something going on 24/7.

For over two yeawrs this doomed city has been inundated by the filth left from Hurricane Katrina. In a city of about a million peoiple pre-Katrina, Now about 150,000 live among the breezes that come some afternoons from the Mississippi, carry the waffling stench of death and political abandonment.

While the French Quarter and some of the Garden District still retain an eerie element of dignity, the city continues to rot with indolence, filth, frustration, ignorance, and political ineptness.

COME! See the CITY THAT FORGET TO CARE in its death throngs, despite the best efforts of some brave, dedicated, sincere people as Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Sheriff Henry Lee of Jefferson Parish, and many New Orleanians who have strugggled to rebuild their lives in a city the is mostly still without power, with inadequate water and sewerage, where streets are filled with abandoned cars and refrigerators, blocks of land lie filthy and fenced off, patrolled constantly by police to roll by to guestimate the amount of criminal activity.
Katrina continues to kill daily--Post Katrina Stress Disorder--with suicides, murders, illnesses, hopelessness.

Post-Katrina New Orleans will long be a very visible legacy of the nature of leadership by George W.Bush.

The legacy will be that of ray negin who has done nothing to rebuild a once great city.

You cannot blame the President when the local government does not want to do anything about the problems in New Orleans. There are jobs and monetary aid to assist with the re-development of the the city, it seems that no one wants to do the labor and expects others to do it for them or to sit back and blame someone else. We are the only ones that can make a difference.

I remember back in 6th grade (1991), when my teacher told us that the levees (he called them dikes) in New Orleans were old and in need of repair before a big storm or other natural disaster came along to wipe the city out. This isn't a case of any one administration, local or otherwise. This is about simply ignoring a problem until it's too late and a lot of people get hurt or worse. I wonder what the reaction of those million people would have been 10 years ago or so if the govt had proposed a tax increase to repair and maintain the levees before a specific threat to them came along.