Why is New Orleans 'still struggling to recover'?

[spanone]

While spending 9 billion a month in Iraq, one of our major port cities has still not recovered from a hurricane two years ago.

bu$h* SHAMES America.

[jobycom]

1. Rebuilding a major city would have provided a huge boost to the national economy.

So naturally the Republicans refused to do it. It's the War on Prosperity, you know.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I've seen several news reports in the last few days that spotlight

New Orleans as we get closer to the anniversary of the storm. The entire Katrina affair has been mishandled and the money that was promised is still not available to many homeowners who want to return. The NewsHour had a segment last night about this. This is just a part of Bush's shameful legacy.

Our local PBS station is airing "Storm That Drowned a City" tonight which focuses on New Orleans. I'm pretty sure this one has aired before, but was very informative as I recall.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

[underpants]

3. Incompetence, corruption, fraud, waste, abuse

by many of the partys involved.

[Selatius]

5. You summed it up perfectly.

I live on the Mississippi coast whenever I'm not in school up in north Mississippi, and reconstruction has not really moved forward. The only businesses that have the capital to rebuild are the casinos and maybe a few high-rise condos, but that's generally it. Small business, the lifeblood of the coast economy, has not really survived.

[dbt]

4. New Orleans is the WRONG COLOR.

It ain't lily white, so it don't matter to the Regime. Besides which, it' such a sinful place with all that wicked ol Jazz and people having the fucking nerve to do as they please. Truly, a modern day Sodom which must be destroyed in order to save it!!!!!1!

And it ain't bu$h who shames America, it's the Congre$$ that keeps his sorry ass out of The Hague.

[Romulox]

6. They've spent well over $100 billion in New Orleans

A good deal of the graft, greed, and incompetence is home grown down there.