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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
I think Joe is being a bit tongue in cheek...
This is a tragedy, in every sense of the world. What a poor, misrun country. On the same island as the DR... take a look at Google earth and compare the forest cover between the countries. Haiti has been raped in an attempt to sell lumber trees.
And the fact that "He" hasn't rebuilt New Orleans is pretty stupid. What year did that happen, and how many years did the previous administration have to work to rebuild? "He" should hopefully be working to better prepare NO and other coastal cities for future events.
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The chief building inspector for Haiti said ove a year ago that at least 60% of the structures in the capital city were not up to basic building standards. It's even worse outside of the city. There's no money to build anything there. Hopefully they can get the hospitals set up fast and get supplies and medicine there asap. I don't care if Obama claims it as an accomplishment, I'd just like to see lives saved. It's an awful situation there.
And New Orleans is rebuilt for the most part. I was there 2 months ago and the city is thriving as much as can be expected in an economic period such as we're in. The areas that are in rough shape now were in rough shape before Katrina. You can't pin NOLA entirely on Bush, either. The mayor down there at first tried to refuse aid and it was sent immediately anyways. They also totally screwed up the evacuations there, not Bush.