Are we supposed to forget about the victims of hurricane Katrina and the lower ninth ward?

Question

Does the Government want it to seem that all is well?

Answer 1

I hope we never forget about the 9th ward and the victims

However as you know things like this get all too forgotten too soon because "we" don't want to know! As long as we remain clueless by choice we can forget the 9th ward because after all we were not there.

Very sad the way things are in a country like America and its up to us to keep the voices of the victims heard continually so our children and our children's children can see and hear...and maybe, just maybe we'll care!!!

"Of the 5.8 million people living in the areas hit hardest by Katrina, some 1.3 million lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area, with close to one-half million people living in the city of New Orleans itself.  The poverty rate in the city is exceptionally high.  The Census data indicate that more than one in four — 28 percent — of the city’s residents were living in poverty before the hurricane descended upon the city.  Of the 245 large cities in the nation (those with populations of 100,000 or more), New Orleans tied for the sixth poorest in the 2000 census."

"Those who were poor in New Orleans commonly lacked their own means of transportation.  Our calculations, based on the Census data, show that more half of the poor households in New Orleans — 54 percent — did not have a car, truck, or van in 2000.  Among the elderly, the proportion was higher.  Sixty-five percent of poor elderly households in New Orleans did not have a vehicle, making it more difficult for them to escape the storm and its effects."

Answer 2

We can't ever forget.  These people need our support. /

Answer 3

No we are not supposed to forget about them (and them includes my sis in law and her husband's family, my neice's then new born, a family of our close friends, as well many other ppl I will never know) however at some point people need for themselves and others to view them less as perpetual victims and more as people who have come through a hard time and are stronger for it.   We need to learn from them, to allow them to be in a position to give as well as receiving.  That giving may be wisdom, knowlege, practical how to's and how not to's more than finances but it is still essential giving.   There is so much they can teach us if we will admit that we need teaching,   When we expect and almost require people to remain in a victim role for yrs and yrs we are diminishing their sense of worth and trying to make ourselves superior to them which is one thing they absolutely do not need.  

Yes some help is still needed but some of that help needs to be rebuilding community social structure and independence as well as material stuff for the kind of rebuilding.  

The government - local, state, and national, was not as effective as it should have been by far and that is another area in which they can teach us a lot.   However there have been massive amounts of government as well as private assistance and some of that is continuing.   We also need to recognize that continues dependency on the government is not healthy and can actually do harm.   Also that the government is us - you and me - and that even government resources are limited.