Mostly Cajun, All American and Opinionated is written by a guy from southwestern Louisiana and actually lived in a FEMA trailer for several months. He has a great blog and I try to check in at least once a day. He has a post up titled: "Final word on New Orleans and Katrina".
In a passionate and coherent rant, Mostly Cajun lays out who dropped the ball in Louisiana.
The fact is this: New Orleans is mostly a disaster because of decades of neglect. It isn’t a lack of money. Enough money has gone through New Orleans to encapsulate the city, but after being siphoned off by corruption and being diluted by silly spending on frivolities meant to buy votes, the money wasn’t spent on levees, and instead of intelligence in city planning, construction was allowed on ever lower “land”, land kept dry only by the forces of man. and with Katrina, man’s forces failed.
Read it all. It's not long, but well worth your time. And while you are there, check out the rest of his stuff. You'll have him bookmarked before you're done.
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