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Nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, President Bush's lofty promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast have been frustrated by bureaucratic failures and competing priorities, a review of events since the hurricane shows.
Post-Katrina Promises Unfulfilled
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:45 AM EST
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Whose fault is it for building a city below the water level?
And whose fault is it for living in a city that is in prime for hurricane destruction?
Did they force the people to live there?
Common sense, please!
#1 - Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:22 AM ESTI strongly feel you''re posing the wrong questions.
Why are other countries able to protect their cities beneath sea level (e.g. Netherlands) and the US can''t?
CAN it be better protected? Yes, definitely.
Why does the administration refuse to do so?
Who says that everyone can choose their place of living? That may apply to the standard WASP-type of citizen, but does it for each and everyone?
Most of the now-homeless people of New Orleans are rather poor and mostly black as I understand from media all around me (independent & mainstream).
After losing the bit of property they had, how should they be able to build/buy sufficient homes out of nothing, without help from the government?
Why do repairs and clean-up procedures take so incredibly long in one of the best developed countries on the planet?
Why are financial requirements from people at the place, who of course have a better insight in the things people need, ignored (including state-officials)?
I think your arguments are rather superficial.
Can you answer these questions? Or are they all without "common sense", as you say?
#2 - Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:50 PM ESTRepairs and clean-up procedures do take a long time, thanks to the fact that nearly all gov't work is union labor, which drives up the cost of projects, as well as the time it takes to do them. Which is why it takes a year for them to widen a street, but a few days to create a parking lot.
As for Katrina cleanup, it hasn't even been six months yet. Talk about impatient.
#4 - Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:30 AM EST@ March:
You are right when you say these procedures do take their time. But I imagine being one of the now homeless people. I'd say they have a right to a fast as possible clean-up of the city. I don't even talk aboput rebuilding here, but as I recall the mud in the city is toxic, or poisonous anyway. So it is dangerous to people to even walk through the stuff let alone to build a new home in it.
And I think the US would have the potential to clean the mess up much faster and thorough than they are now.
I'm asking myself how things would look like if New York was hit by Katrina...
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