New Orleans Residents Place an Ad to Plead With Congress

Members of Congress, soon returning home for the holidays, will get a stark message on Tuesday that tens of thousands of this city's people are still unable to do so.

A full-page advertisement - set to appear in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, paid for by former residents of the ravaged middle-class Lakeview section and billed as a "Message From Homeless New Orleanians" - pleads with Congress to pay for stronger levees.

It also reminds the lawmakers that things are far from normal in a city where block after block remains ghostly and dark.

"Since the breakdown of the New Orleans flood protection system on August 29, 2005, we have lived like refugees in our own country," the advertisement says. "The residents of Lakeview and countless other displaced New Orleans communities are sending you this holiday wish in one voice - 'We want to go home.' "



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/national/nationalspecial/13advertisement.html

to do 'what it takes" to help!!

We need to tell the folks on the hill that we understand who the true welfare queens are. If they need more money for their wars and corporate oil, they need to start digging in their own pockets and quit taking from the American people. They cut, cut and cut, while giving themselves raises. Somewhere along the line, we are going to have to stop being nice.