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Bill Moyers talks with Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Mike…

Politics – BILL MOYERS:Welcome to the Journal. Soon, bells will be ringing in New Orleans to mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that swamped the city and devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Days after Katrina struck, President Bush offered re-assurance to the displaced and homeless from the Big Easy to Biloxi.

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GEORGE BUSH: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their livesâ;¦

Really???

BILL MOYERS:That was then. This is now. Nearly two thirds of the city's population has returned. But many of the city services they depend upon haven't. Less than half of the city's schools are open. 10 of the 23 original New Orleans hospitals remain closed. The city's police headquarters and two of its precinct stations still operate from temporary trailers, struggling to contain a crime level that has remained at a high water mark.

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Bush just made a detour to Iraq with the funds necessary to build in hand. Now the funds in Iraq have been pork barreled out, shoddy workmanship, unfinished projects and payouts galore to the ruling class.

New Orleans will have to wait, our domination of the world is more important.

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Bushies promises to the people of New Orleans still hasn't come to fruition. There are still people missing, parents and children still haven't been reunited, and people are still displaced. Sadly this will also be the case when he leaves office, and frankly i don't think he cares or ever did.

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This is shameful that this still continues. It gives one great faith that should it happen to your own community, you will be left to your own devices. We cannot count upon the government that is supposed to be of, by and FOR the people. They would rather spend OUR money on useless occupations and their own pockets. Shame, shame shame.

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what amazes me is can you imagine the unabashed irrefutable good 500 billion dollars spent in our country could have done?

Another thing that plaques the Katrina victims is the the lack of payment from insurance companies. Some may be legit,most I suspect are waffling.

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