Posted on 08/28/2009 6:36:42 PM PDT by Ebenezer
Dear Mr. President,
Tomorrow we will mark the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which claimed the lives of 1,400 Louisianians and nearly killed a great American city. We will miss having you in our midst.
We know you don't lack passion for our community and its recovery. Though you haven't been here as president, as a senator you visited five times after Katrina. We remember well the fervor of your speech at Tulane University on your last visit, a year and a half ago.
"I promise you that when I'm in the White House, I will commit myself every day to keeping up Washington's end of the bargain," you said then. "This will be a priority of my presidency. And I will make it clear to members of my administration that their responsibilities don't end in places like the 9th Ward; they begin in places like the 9th Ward."
We await the fulfillment of many of these promises. We are grateful for the federal aid that has flowed our way, including $14.7 billion in improvements to levees and drainage and other storm protection measures. And under your administration, the federal recovery bureaucracy has been eased, as even Republican officials here acknowledge.
But much remains to be done.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Pelican State ping
I’ll bet the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana still haven’t filled out the forms for aid from the Federal Government.
They might want to talk to city and state officials and ask about that relief money.
LOL
That’s a keeper.
Thank you. ;-)
Though you haven't been here as president, as a senator you visited five times after Katrina. We remember well the fervor of your speech at Tulane University on your last visit, a year and a half ago. "I promise you that when I'm in the White House, I will commit myself every day to keeping up Washington's end of the bargain," you said then. "This will be a priority of my presidency. And I will make it clear to members of my administration that their responsibilities don't end in places like the 9th Ward; they begin in places like the 9th Ward." We await the fulfillment of many of these promises. We are grateful for the federal aid that has flowed our way, including $14.7 billion in improvements to levees and drainage and other storm protection measures. And under your administration, the federal recovery bureaucracy has been eased...
OK. That’s about the funniest thing I’ve seen ALL YEAR!!!! LMAO!!!!
What city do you reside. I hope it never goes under water.
Looter Guy truly is everywhere! ;)
Hahahahhaaa ... I’m stealing this image :)
Katrina was a crisis of a a sub-culture totally bereft of personal responsibility and initiative, more than anything else.
It's been four years since Katrina. I have no more sympathy left.
Next question?
Did LA overwhelmingly vote for this guy based on those hollow promises? Somehow, I’m thinking they did...
LOL! Great one!
What about those hard hit people in Mississippi?? Katrina hit just about on the border of the two states, and many people there were in just as dire straits as LA. Why don’t we hear about them? And isn’t Obama going to fix things up for them too? Or have they perhaps just gone ahead, doing what they needed to do?
Actually, McCain carried Louisiana as a whole, while Democrat stronghold Orleans Parish (County) overwhelmingly voted for Ohbummer.
Did you have 11 feet of water in your house?
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