AtD -- How Will You Read It?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Sounds similar to post-9/11 NYC, except that Bush showed up much sooner for his photo-op, and scored big politically.  A lot of small retailers lost big-time, the people who most needed help from the massive bureaucracy probably got the least, and, in addition, the city was set upon by religious missionaries, handing out religious tracts and even DVDs on every corner, certain that sinful New York was finally ready to see the light.  They were wrong.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>

>
>Thanks for the good wishes.
>
>It's hard to encapsulate where this city's at right now.  We're not
>really "back" yet, and probably won't be for another few years (but
>come as tourists - all that's back in full swing, and we need your
>money).  Bureaucracy has been hell on anyone trying to get rebuilding
>money already slated for us.  And though for three months after
>Katrina there were no murders in New Orleans, it has now come back in
>spades. Us with our understaffed police force and teenage hoodlums
>proving more resilient in returning that anyone anticipated.  But we
>all love New Orleans too much to want to live anywhere else.
>
>For many reasons I thank God that the midterm elections delivered the
>Democratic takeover of congress, and in my heart I know that Katrina
>was the beginning of the end, the tipping point, for the Bush
>presidency.  So the storm did have a silver lining.  And while Bush
>liked to get in front of cameras and say how committed he was to our
>recover, every time it meant Federal dollars, or even letting us have
>our rightful percentage of Gulf oil & gas royalties, he was against
>us.  Our motto here since Katrina has been "Make Levees, Not War," and
>we expect that the Democrats will deliver on that sentiment.
>
>David Morris
>
>On 11/27/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Friends have been making record digging runs to NOLA about every other week this past month now, keep coming back only to regret wghat they left behind, so
>> ...
>>
>> At any rate, sounds like the city's going again ...
>>
>> Did just post that NYT/IHT review, by the way ...
>>
>> --- David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > At this point we're like a neighborhood fixture out there every evening.