From today’s prospective one might surmise that George Walker Bush did not believe items 1 and 3 were very important. Item 1 is just a bunch of Democrats floating away and item 3 is just a bunch of Democrats “cleaned out of New Orleans”^{(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)} ( some thing Delay’s House Conference of scandal wanted to secure a solid RNC majority in the US House of Representatives ).~

George Walker Bush still cut SELA funding to finance his 2001 Tax Cut ⁽¹⁾ ( The largest ENTITLEMENT in the history of the United States of America ). It is not surprising that the Bush Administration would be a SLOW PAY when it comes to distributing aid and loans to Katrina victims.

Now that we have the Democrats spread all over the south lets keep them there.

Katrina Aid Far From Flowing
A year after the hurricane, some federal agencies are dispensing available
funds at a trickle: $110 billion has been approved, $44 billion spent.
By Ann M. Simmons, Richard Fausset and Stephen Braun,
Times Staff Writers
August 27, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-money27aug27,0,6814955.story?track=tothtml

NEW ORLEANS — From the ghostly streets of New Orleans’ abandoned neighborhoods to Mississippi’s downtrodden coastline, the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s onslaught is arriving with emerging signs of federal money at work — rented trailers parked in the driveways of flood-ravaged homesteads, teams of Army engineers overseeing levee repairs, beaches swept clean of debris.

But the federal government has spent less than half the rebuilding funds that it amassed for Katrina recovery, which has raised sharp questions about the Bush administration’s stewardship of the Gulf Coast’s reconstruction and has provoked a chorus of complaints about excessive delays and government sluggishness….

….The toll taken by the government’s slow-motion funding reveals itself in miniature on Flood Street, an aptly named stretch of flood-scarred dwellings in New Orleans’ devastated Lower 9th Ward where the Kent brothers are trying to resettle their family home.

Lonnie Kent applied to FEMA six months ago for a trailer where he and his brother Clark Gable Kent could live while repairing their mother’s mold-infested house, the only one on the block someone has returned to. Only last month did a FEMA agent show up to survey where the trailer would go. But the agent departed without making a commitment, leaving the brothers to wait it out in a house where sheetrock walls are exposed and the roof leaks.

“They said they couldn’t hook up the trailer because an electrical line was [hanging] too low,” said Lonnie Kent. “But ain’t no trailer that high.”

FEMA officials said more than 19,000 trailers had been delivered to displaced homeowners in New Orleans. But many others are still waiting, including 4,200 in New Orleans and nearly 4,000 in neighboring parishes.

The anxiety of waiting afflicts the city’s affluent as well. Colleen Monaghan, 44, lived in the once-thriving neighborhood of Lakeview, where blocks of water-damaged homes sit vacant and exposed. The wall of floodwater that broke over poorly built levees caused $470,000 in damage to her home.With only $26,000 in insurance coverage, Monaghan turned to the Small Business Administration, which provides loans to homes and businesses damaged in natural disasters. She said she applied for a loan to rebuild her house a month after Katrina struck. In November, the agency informed her she would receive a $200,000 loan. But it was not until Wednesday that Monaghan received the money.

“It’s been an ongoing nightmare for the one whole year,” said Monaghan. “I feel I’m finally beginning to see the light. I’m proud to be an American, but I’ve lost all confidence in our government.”…..

What Have We Learned From

Please Read The Reports

The Majority Report

The Minority Report

Please watch Spike Lee’s HBO Special ‘Requiem’ for New Orleans and learn what the real people of New Orleans are going through.