Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime : Indybay

As nearly every media account admits, substantial sections of New Orleans remain in ruins; 40 percent of the population has not returned; only a fraction of those who have applied for federal house-rebuilding grants have received it; the murder rate has doubled; suicides, domestic violence and rape have increased sharply; the homeless population has also doubled, and many of those are living in the city’s estimated 80,000 abandoned dwellings.

The Atlanta-based Southern Education Foundation released a report August 29 that decried the federal response. It noted, “Not since the Great Depression of the 1930s has the United States witnessed so many of its own students thrown out of school.”

A major US city was damaged catastrophically, an entire layer of the population has been plunged into misery and the federal government has made no centralized effort to restore the city or ameliorate the conditions of its working-class residents. In the face of this, on the second anniversary of the hurricane, Bush hobnobbed with the local elite, lied and uttered platitudes.

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Bush visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary: returning to the scene of the crime

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