Posted on 05/30/2007 9:18:40 PM PDT by SmithL
New Orleans (AP) -- Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said Wednesday that New Orleans is a city on the mend, despite broken promises from the state and federal governments.
"New Orleans is coming back, whether you like it or not," Nagin said to applause from the crowd of city workers and community members gathered at the National World War II Museum. "And you might as well deal with it."
Nagin called on President Bush and Gov. Kathleen Blanco to do more to help speed the city's recovery from the August 2005 storm. He said Bush has failed to move federal aid to "the people who need it the most," and said he should forgive millions of dollars in disaster loans that the city took out after the storm to help it to continue operating.
He also called on Blanco to use a budget surplus to help the city.
"Use the $3 billion budget surplus to ensure a strong future for our state and for all our citizens," Nagin said. "Because as New Orleans recovers, and as south Louisiana recovers, so does Louisiana."
A message seeking comment was left with a spokesperson for Blanco. A White House spokeswoman said the city, not the federal government, must be the force behind the recovery effort.
"The federal government has committed more than $110 billion to help the Gulf Coast recover, and we will continue to provide assistance. But the people of the Gulf Coast and their elected leaders must drive the effort to rebuild their lives and their communities," said Jeanie Mamo, a spokeswoman for the White House.
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Dude sounds a bit hostile, but he plays to an audience that eats that stuff up like chocolate.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Scatterbunks! Thwarted again!
I saw the first episode of K-Ville...didnt look like it was mending too well to me!
Did he ever find out why he had 700 ghost policemen on the rolls drawing salaries every month? And where all that money really went? (700 paychecks every month is a LOT!)
Did he ever check into the possibility of missing workers in other city departments?
Did he ever find out where all the BILLIONS given to NO and LA over the past decade or so for flood protection was spent?
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Yeah right. It must mean that the coke supply is adequate. People gotta ease their Jones, or their Smiths or whatnot.
New Orleans is NOT back. The French Quarter is, but the city as a whole is still a mess. They don’t even have money to mow the grassy medians along the avenues in the Garden District.
And they don’t have local leadership capable of solving the problems.
The words “cheap suit” come to mind.
How do you mend chocolate?
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Let me guess! In elected officials' freezers????
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
yep, he’s morphing from school bus Nagin to deadbeat Nagin right before our eyes.
Same song, second verse. Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie.
Instead of them eating the garbage Nagin is spewing at them, they should be chanting, "Step onto the bus... The one that's going to take you back to Be'elzebub..." - lame Soul Coughing reference
The only person I have less respect for than Nagin, is that dimwit Blanco.
“New Orleans is coming back, whether you like it or not,” Nagin said ..... “And you might as well deal with it.”
Antagonistic much? These are not the words of a strong leader who represents a strong city.
The gothman knows NO? Noggin was big in the city not in the state.
New Orleans is a city, and a parish. It has a political history all its own. Separate everything. NO hasn't gotten along with Baton Rouge in a long (a century?). It is almost autonomous. BR really wants nothing to do with NO. That is why there is little or no cordination between state and NO. This thing will never be settled.
The ninth ward was virtually all welfare recipients. Heck 75% who lost a home in the parish probably didn't have title. The ninth ward was virtually built with federal money and no developer will be able to the same thing in this day and age.
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