There is a great quote buried in this article...which tells a magnificent lesson in civics: “I wish I could just write a check, Obama said. If that was his message, he should have stayed home. We now know that our government can make hundreds of billions of dollars available to irresponsible Wall Street institutions within a matter of days, if necessary.”
He is correct. The rush to save Wall Street and the bankers...was turbo powered. The rush to help the Gulf Coast (including Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama)...was a joke. The visit last week...just part of the same joke.
I think what happened in New Orleans was tragic.
There have been many natural disasters that have been handled on a state level, as they should be.
There has been massive amounts of federal funding before and after Katrina sent to Louisiana.
Louisiana has no leadership (Jindal is trying). It is time for them to pick themselves up and move on.
Nagin went to Cuba for training in “natural disaster recovery”. Give me a break..he could have gone to Mississippi or Texas or the Midwest or California.
But I do agree..the visit last week was a joke..a photo op.
The state failed those people, not the federal government.