Reply #33: You are so right. I went to NOLA recently and our cab driver said

[Laura PourMeADrink]

"Please tell everyone to come back, we are dying here." And it's not just the poor - they are mostly all still displaced. It is the average middle income people. They had homes destroyed and insurance couldn't cover. So they are having to pay rent (which has risen) and a mortgage (which for some has risen). People we talked to said that if tourism doesn't pick up they may have to leave their beloved city. Even those who rebuilt find their homes in a war zone of abandoned homes because their neighbors could not.

I actually loved what Edwards said about Nola - when he was president he would appoint a cabinet level position and every day he would ask that person, "what have you done for NOLA lately."

I wish Obama would pick up on this. Katrina was my second biggest beef with AssHat.