Bush and the feds did
plenty after Katrina. They got supplies to the region within days, sent temporary shelters for those who lost their homes, and helped work with families to assess damage and get their insurance claims filed. Plenty of financial assistance came over the years to help communities get their public buildings repaired or replaced, such as city halls, schools, and libraries. Short of waving a magic wand and undoing all the damage, there really wasn't much more they could have done. At that point, it was up to communities to work on getting businesses and families back.
New Orleans is a Democrat-run shithole (all mayors since 1872 have been Dems!) built in a fucking bowl below sea level. The flooding in the city wasn't due to the hurricane dumping rain on the city from above, but due to the levees breaking and causing the Gulf waters to come flooding in. Granted, there were engineering problems with the levees, such as failing to take into account the actual conditions of the soil and using sand instead of clay in some areas. However, by law, maintenance of the levees was the responsibility of local government, not the feds. And true to form of basically any kind of construction work in New Orleans, the entire levee project was supposed to take 13 years when it was authorized in 1965, but when Katrina hit, it was only
60-90% complete. They weren't even expecting to be done for another
decade.
en.wikipedia.org
Lest we forget, this is the same city that still hasn't cleaned up
the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel months later, even after one of the dead bodies still trapped inside could be seen from the fucking street. This is the same city that has more potholes than streets. Louisiana as a whole and New Orleans in particular are positively rife with corruption, and I'm sure there were plenty of federal funds that got siphoned away into various politicians' pockets.
The worst part is that nobody actually remembers that Katrina didn't hit New Orleans directly. They actually got the weaker side of the storm (counter-clockwise rotation means that the west side's winds are weaker once it hits land and push water away from the shore). The eye hit Mississippi, with some towns being effectively wiped off the map. But the media focused so hard on the flooding in New Orleans that the general public thinks it's the only place that was affected, including that faggot David Brooks up there. Fuck him, fuck the media, and especially fuck New Orleans.
The Simpsons had it right decades ago: