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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama hails “entrepreneurial” transformation of New Orleans
Obama hails entrepreneurial transformation of New Orleans
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Obamas remarks paid little heed to the solemnity of the occasion, the worst natural disaster in American history, with more than 1,800 killed in five states, and one of the countrys iconic cities, a historical center of both culture and commerce, virtually destroyed.
Instead, Obama used the occasion to celebrate, in an unseemly, even grotesque fashion, the supposed successes of the capitalist system, both in America as a whole, and in New Orleans in particular.
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Obama cherry-picked a few statistics in an effort to present conditions in New Orleans as improving, or even as better and stronger than before the storm. Here are some figures that he neglected to mention:● In the Lower Ninth Ward, where he gave his speech, only 36 percent of the pre-Katrina population has returned.
● An estimated 100,000 of the citys poorest African-American working class residents have not returned, unable to find jobs or replacement housing.
● Half of all working-age black men in New Orleans are unemployed, and a quarter of all working-age white men.
● Half of all black children in New Orleans live in poverty.
● Rents in New Orleans have doubled from an average of $488 a month before Katrina to $926 today, making the city increasingly unaffordable for working class families of all races.
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Obama hails “entrepreneurial” transformation of New Orleans (Original Post)
Mika
Aug 2015
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Hydra
(14,459 posts)1. Bushco tried to remake NO into some sort of capital paradise
Amazing how the Capitalists continue to lie about how great their crap is. Forcing people out of the system and calling it cleaner and more efficient.
Mika
(17,751 posts)3. Not just Bushco. It continues, and POTUS provides a smiley face sticker.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)4. I get flak for it, but I consider the Obama Admin to be part of Bushco as well
They couldn't have asked for a better defender, as well as someone keeping their policies going for them.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)2. K & R
I know it's not what the Party Faithful want to hear but it needs to be said.
Thank you for the thread.