Nagin: Ground Zero a Hole in the Ground
New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, in defense of his inability to clean his flood ravaged city in a timely manner decided to use Ground Zero in New York as a comparison, calling it a "hole in the ground".
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On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public property and it's mainly private land that's still affected - areas that can't be cleaned without the owners' permission. But when Pitts points to flood-damaged cars in the street and a house washed partially into the street, the mayor shoots back. "That's alright. You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed and it's five years later. So let's be fair." |
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/60minutes/main1933092.shtml
As a New Yorker, who witnessed the attack on our country, I'm disturbed that this man doesn't have the decency to respect those who were killed on September 11. To say it needs to be "fixed" leads me to believe he thinks it was broken, not destroyed in an attack by jihadists whose goal was to kill as many people as possible.
Perhaps Nagin doesn't consider the human loss at Ground Zero, and that may be why he left his people in New Orleans stranded while he hid in a hotel.
The fine people at Hot Air have some choice comments for Mayor Nagin.