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protection of 100% of the fascist Republican party.

Some don't care about the increased influence of the corporate elites. Most Democrats do.

Corporate media that acts as stenographers for the powerful Republican elites comes much cheaper for its target audiences of dumbed down GOP voters.

Real journalism has become costly.

vote for Sen Sanders.

Some things in life are more important than who you want to vote for in this primary.

....and continuing the same shit!!

which was on Bush's watch. There is no need to drag politics into a remembrance thread. It is disrespectful and rude.

I had to run after I posted, never had time to respond to the vote for Bernie post.

Disrespectful and rude, yes it was. I would like to say I am shocked, I am not.

I find it all so disheartening.

When I first saw it, I felt the child was playing taps. Or the Saints Come Marching in as a tribute. Yet I got from one response that jazz is still alive and well in New Orleans and they won't be defeated.

I like both of those, brer cat.

We thought we were going to lose the city altogether, and it came close. So much lost. That cover is heart-wrenching.

Continue with Goldman-Sachs and Wall Street taking all the wealth and the poverty level ever rising. But some don't care about the poverty level or the rising infant mortality rate. Something is apparently more important than saving children in poverty. Maybe you can tell us what that is? I am guessing it's profits for Wall Street.

What the hell if we have fracking that destroys peoples aquifers. They can always buy water from one of the billionaires that you think so highly of and the oil companies profits will soar.

What the hell if the TPP sends American jobs over seas as long as the bottom line of Goldman-Sachs grows.

What's a little drone killing that sees 100 innocents killed for every single "suspect". Compared to the I-War that's nothing, right?

There are two sides in this class war and Clinton is on the side of the 1%.

This isn't a political thread.

This is a message board for politically liberal posters. That should mean that we are open to lots of different ideas and not channeled into a thin line of thinking that seems so popular with non-progressives.

Katrina is every bit political. The damage, lives lost, lives displaced should never have happened and politics was very much involved. This is the culture of the billionaires that run Wash DC. Disaster capitalism is part of the current Wash DC culture. Wall Street profits are soaring and will continue if we vote to continue with the status quo that the non-progressives and conservatives love so much.

While the 99% are losing the class war the non-progressives are playing their fiddles like Nero.

....Hurricane Katrina.

the Wash DC culture that allowed the disaster to be as bad as it was? And nothing will be done as long as we support the status quo that sees Goldman-Sachs making the decisions for the country. We need change. We need the change that Obama spoke of as a candidate but forgot when elected.

If you respect those that were affected by the Katrina disaster, support someone that will fight for change and not Goldman-Sachs.

without the presence of various cultures, the spirit of the city is no longer there.

have pocketed hundreds of millions, though. And that is what is important.

After Katrina, they demolished their public housing units with the promise to rebuild mixed communities, and switched to a Section 8 type voucher program. Lo and behold, the new owners of those buildings refused to accept the vouchers, so low income people were pushed out of the city and into New Orleans East.

And appropriate. New Orleans was forever changed by Katrina. A lot of what made it what it was is no longer.

Thanks for sharing, kpete.

Thanks to everyone who helped rebuild New Orleans. And yeah, there were more than a few profiteers. But the people of New Orleans are grateful for the outpouring of help that came from every corner of America and around the world.

And sure, Katrina may have ripped the heart out of many of our neighborhoods. But they can never take away the soul that is New Orleans.

This bumper sticker says it all: "New Orleans, Proud to Crawl Home"

i was upset with the Rs before Katrina, but after I became horrified at them. Shame shame shame on bushes and all their minions, cohorts and abettors.

are what got me. 10 yrs and the house clearly hasn't received the attention it deserves. The foundation in the foreground still stands, but the stairs don't go very far up.

My husband's aunt's house looked like that after Katrina.

so that starving/dehydrated victims could not escape.

new orleans would be gone when I awoke. the reality was horrifying enough.

I thought the city would be lost forever.

"I'm the President of the United States, and I'm here to help you" was one of his, and the Presidency's, finest moments.