To those suffering in New Orleans, it may seem that the government has turned its back on the city. But that’s just frustration and paranoia, right? Right?
Maybe not. Dennis Hastert, the Republican Speaker of the House, apparently wants to make it official:
It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that’s seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
“It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed,” the Illinois Republican said in an interview Wednesday with the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Illinois.
So, what’s going on here? Did New Orleans vote for John Kerry in the 2004 election, or something?
(The distorted map, called a cartogram, is explained here.)
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