Katrina: We Won’t Forget

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/11/04/katrina-we-won%e2%80%99t-forget/


Katrina: We Won’t Forget

by Mike Hall, Nov 4, 2006

The people of New Orleans and those throughout the entire Gulf Coast haven’t forgotten about the deadly and devastating Hurricane Katrina that killed nearly 1,700 people, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and caused some $80 billion in damage over 90,000 square miles more than a year ago.

So how can the Bush administration push Katrina and its victims out of its mind? The Center for American Progress’ report, Katrina: The Forgotten Disaster, explores the still monumental task to rebuild Gulf Coast lives and towns more than a year later. It also examines the Bush administration’s failure to mount a credible, thorough and sustained recovery and rebuilding effort.

During the White House media blitz marking the one-year anniversary, the Bush administration used photo ops and a laundry list of rebuilding promises to assure the public that it was deeply committed to rebuilding. Too bad the follow-through is lacking.

Click here to read the report: http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1331575&ct=3216377

Find out more here about the AFL-CIO’s $1 billion Gulf Coast Revitalization program and here, here, here, here, here and here for James Parks’ series, “Katrina One Year Later.”

[Redstone]

1. BILLIONS for Iraq, NOTHING for Louisiana and Mississippi.

Our government is broken. Where did my America go?

Redstone

[rodeodance]

2. i do not think i have heard the word in a the last few months.

[BayouBengal07]

3. Oh, don't you know?

There are tourists back on Bourbon St. That means New Orleans is back on its feet! We don't need government money; besides, that's communism!

[Skittles]

5. YES

y'all had a PARADE - that means all is forgiven!!! :o

[partylessinOhio]

4. Remember the victims of Katrina - vote to clean house on November 7.