Heart of Orleans still broken

Scotsman.com Heart of Orleans still broken:

"The suicide rate has tripled since Katrina and doctors report an 'epidemic' of depression and anxiety-related illnesses. 'For the people of New Orleans, there's no 'post' in post-traumatic stress disorder,' says Father Jim Deshotels, a Jesuit priest and family nurse practitioner."

This is New Orleans and this is so sad. Sad , sad, sad. It's New Orleans and no one is rebuilding it and letting the phoenix rise up. A place which is legendary is left and people are still there in coffins and have not been identified. People have come back to work so they can meet the requirements of their retirement fund and then they will leave and people who have lived there forever don't recognise it. New Orleans is being allowed to desintegrate. Why would you do that to one of the most powerful cities in history? Why wouldn't you clean it up and fix it? Probably because the money and man power are elsewhere. It's a crying shame but I hope, I really hope, New Orleans has the spirit to survive. It is unbelievable it wouldn't be repaired and revitalised. Other countries rebuilt and refurbish their cities. They do not allow people to suffer the indignity of squalor and devastation. Why wouldn't the people of New Orleans be worthy of that? I cannot tell from a distance but I have never known this. Mumbai got picked up and dusted off. Napier was revitalised in the most amazing way. We are rebuilding Innisvale, Darwin was rebuilt. What is going on??


"That's 52 years I've been here and I don't know my own neighbourhood any more."