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I've been taking a lot of vacations lately. I keep feeling that I want to get away from New Orleans and the destruction that we see all around us. This is one of the many neighborhoods still destroyed eight months after the hurricane that flooded this city. I am ashamed of my country.
8) Let's discuss corruption. People are saying we shouldn't give money to New Orleans to repair because of the corruption in the local governments. Of the corruption that has taken place in the expenditure of the reconstruction money the overwhelming majority has occurred at the federal level with the administration (who is responsible for deciding who gets the money) spreading it lavishly among their campaign contributors who are hiring other contractors who are hiring other contractors who are hiring other contractors, who are hiring inexpensive foreign workers to come here and do the repair work for $5 per hour. There is no commitment to repair New Orleans, because New Orleans is a poor city which is represented by a political party which opposes the administration's political party. That is the shameful truth.