the neo cons did a good job of destroying New Orleans

http://counterpunch.com/quigley08182009.html


Katrina Pain Index - 2009


0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant – compared to 116,708 homeowners.

0. Number of hospitals in New Orleans providing in-patient mental health care as of September 2009 despite post-Katrina increases in suicides and mental health problems.

1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in murders per capita for 2008.

1. Rank of New Orleans among U.S. cities in percentage of vacant residences.

2. Number of Katrina cottages completed in Louisiana as of beginning of 2009 hurricane season under $74 million dollar federal program.

33. Percent of 134,000 FEMA trailers in which Katrina and Rita storm survivors were housed after the storms which are estimated by federal government to have had formaldehyde problems.

35. Percent of child care facilities re-opened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

35. Percent of child care facilities re-opened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

35. Percent increase of demand in 2009 at emergency food programs in New Orleans and surrounding parishes, “an increase pinned on the swelling ranks of under-employed and rising food, housing, and fuel costs.”

50. Ranking of Louisiana among states for overall healthcare.

52. Percent increase in rents in New Orleans since Katrina.

52. Percent of federal rebuilding money allocated to New Orleans that has actually been received.

60. Percent of children in New Orleans public schools who attend public charter schools.

88: Percent of the 600 New Orleans residents who will displaced by proposed new hospital complex who are minorities.

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the neo cons are still smirking over their job well done

Goddamnit, this statement pisses me off. As if we should not care about people fucked by mother nature and by their fellow man because there is another town somewhere where they have no jobs? Have you ever been to NOLA? I hardly think there was ever a competition between her and Detroit for poorest, worst off city.

Then gentrified by MURDER.

"As if we should not care about people fucked by mother nature and by their fellow man because there is another town somewhere where they have no jobs?"

Turn your statement around:

As if we should not care about people fucked by our national economic policy and by their fellow man because there is another town somewhere where they suffered a storm?

Cuts both ways.

After all, part of DU tells me Obama is now responsible for everything Bush did. And they're the same anyway.

Why won't there be an investigation into the emails Brownie was talking about, where Homeland Security wanted to make the female, Democratic governor look bad?