Who's to Blame for State of New Orleans? - Forbes.com
Yes, indeed; who is to blame?
This is a fairly good piece about what went wrong and what has not gone right in New Orleans since Katrina.
The parts about the condition of the city now are true. I have confirmation from friends still there. The statistics are astounding! 70 million gallons of water leak every day from the water system, about as much as gets delivered to the homes and businesses of New Orleans.
There are less than two hundred doctors in New Orleans; before the storm there were over six hundred. There are 27 doctors left that specialixe in mental health in a city where people are suffering from incredible stress.
And the politicians in charge were never much good at solving any problem at all before the storm. After, they still seem to suck.
It's no suprise to me and that's why I took to the road with a great sadness in my heart. I miss what used to be my home...
durlx
Yes, indeed; who is to blame?
This is a fairly good piece about what went wrong and what has not gone right in New Orleans since Katrina.
The parts about the condition of the city now are true. I have confirmation from friends still there. The statistics are astounding! 70 million gallons of water leak every day from the water system, about as much as gets delivered to the homes and businesses of New Orleans.
There are less than two hundred doctors in New Orleans; before the storm there were over six hundred. There are 27 doctors left that specialixe in mental health in a city where people are suffering from incredible stress.
And the politicians in charge were never much good at solving any problem at all before the storm. After, they still seem to suck.
It's no suprise to me and that's why I took to the road with a great sadness in my heart. I miss what used to be my home...
durlx
posted by durlx at 8/19/2006 11:54:00 PM
1 Comments:
"I guess probably in the old Stalinist regime, everybody would have been sacked and sent to Siberia," Kemp says. "But we don't do that."
yes, there are a number of things they don't do. the author may say what he will about stalin or any personality, but this scenario would never have been allowed 2 play out in the soviet union nor in any other industrialized nation. the work of fortifying the levees was contracted out to a crooked private sector which maximized profit over protection without any serious oversight from anyone. it is a symbiotic relationship precisely homologous to the nationally prevailing incest between pentagon and industry, and thus a paradigm.
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