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...Williams is sloppy yet again when, in discussing structural poverty in New Orleans, he mentions that Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana??states that were among the slowest to integrate—have the highest levels of black poverty. He inexplicably fails to acknowledge any connection between these two facts...
...According to 2000 U.S. Census, 32.5 percent of Louisiana??s population is black...
...presented a bill asking for $250 billion for Gulf Coast reconstruction, in addition to the $62.3 billion in already approved emergency spending (which works out to $312,300 per person potentially affected by the storm). The new bill includes $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisiana??10 times last year’s Corps budget for the entire country—as well as $50 billion for communities with vague “long-term recovery” plans, and even more blatant boondoggles like $8 million for training on how to preserve historical artworks...
...won’t be the poor Superdome victims highlighted on national television. Instead, chances are that cronyism and corruption will line the pockets of well-connected businessmen and officials. The government has a proven inability to manage and oversee spending (just think about the Big Dig), and Louisiana??a byword for political corruption—is probably the last place in America that should get billions of no-strings-attached dollars. This is the state that ranked third in per capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration...
It’s dangerous. It’s fast. And it’s spreading pandemonium in the swamps of Louisiana??but on the silver screen, not the weather channel...