In an article from CNN.com, a resident asked the mayor of New Orleans this question:
A man added, “It’s a hard thing to believe that the United States of America is spending nearly one billion [dollars] per week in Iraq, and here, in New Orleans, the United States, we’re being neglected.”
…which is a damn good point. This isn’t to say Iraq is fully stabilized and settled (and I’m still a bit worried we may be exiting prematurely and leaving that country in dire straits), but we’ve had an outpouring of donations and yet — it seems our own people are being given a lower priority than Iraqi citizens.
Perhaps we should just build a fence around New Orleans so the residents there can’t sneak into the U.S.