Source: Critical Mass

The author is a tad bit frustrated:

Half of the population is gone, and many of those people did not live in the Lower Ninth Ward. Whole areas of Gentilly and Lakeview – standard-issue middle and upper middle class neighborhoods – are shells, houses with waterlines yet to be repaired. It’s a national scandal, though the media have tired of pointing the figure at Bush and Congress. The media packed off when Nagin won his reelection by snookering blacks into supporting him as a born-again African-American. Nagin lunged from one recovery plan to another, failed to bring in the funds we need to rebuild, and blames everyone but himself.