The Shame of Our Nation...

We give money to Mexico. We give money to Ecuador. We have spent billions on new construction and repairs in Iraq. A city in our own country is devastated, and they get about a third of the money we give to all of these foreign countries.

New Orleans is a very important city. We control the Gulf of Mexico because of New Orleans. The ports and refineries are invaluable assets.

We got the ports going. Refineries are back up to speed.

Neighborhoods, not so much.

Sure, there are criminals running wild in the streets. Who is going to stop them?
Not us. We don't care. We have made that abundantly clear.

We don't care that there are only five large grocery stores open in New Orleans. We don't care that every single property owner took a shafting from one insurance company or another. We don't care that we have rebuilt more schools in Baghdad than in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. We don't care that the police force in New Orleans is at about 30% of pre-Katrina strength. We don't care that some neighborhoods are still completely unlivable. We don't care that 30,000 people had to move away from their homes.

I had planned to go on and on about this, but I don't think I will. I only have one more thing to say.

We should be ashamed for abandoning our fellow countrymen in their time of need.