New Orleans mayor gets an earful ("we're being neglected")

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/29/neworleans.townhall/

New Orleans mayor gets an earful
Residents complain of response three months after Katrina

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Frustrated New Orleans residents appeared before Mayor Ray Nagin Tuesday with complaints about the response to Hurricane Katrina, with two speakers asking why a nation fighting to stabilize Iraq can't resolve a crisis at home.

One woman suggested that New Orleans residents board buses and travel to Washington to complain to Congress, which has approved billions of dollars for relief efforts.

"If they can destroy a country and build it up again, why can't they fix this state?" the woman asked. (Watch mayor get an earful from citizens -- 1:27)

A man added, "It's a hard thing to believe that the United States of America is spending nearly one billion per week in Iraq, and here, in New Orleans, the United States, we're being neglected."