Summit becomes a pain for locals
The trade summit taking place in New Orleans seems to be getting under some peoples’ skin. The closed roads and traffic jams have been quite the incovienience to those who live and work here.. I have managed to avoid downtown and everywhere else that has been disrupted by the visit of the president. Which is good since my mood today would probably have me MF’n all over town.
I found this quote by Bush on the recovery to be uninformed.
“You can see hope in the fact that people are absolutely determined to make it better than it was before,” Bush said. “For all of you who contributed to the resurgence of New Orleans, I want to thank you on behalf of a grateful nation.”
Number one I don’t see the city being rebuilt better than it was before, we have managed to maintain most of the bad qualities that the city had before the storm. The other thing I don’t believe is that the nation is grateful to those of us who have returned. If you read or listen to the opinions of many around the country when they speak of New Orelans they are resentful.
With all of the federal aid that has come to New Orleans, it hasn’t been enough to fix police, or firestations, The roads continue to disentegrate, every federal dollar that the city has received has been a torturous process that is a kin to pulling teeth with a pair of pliers. While parts of the city have recovered fairly well, mainly the parts that weren’t hit that hard. The hardest hit areas are still a disaster area.
Tags: rebuilding
