President Obama: New Orleans rebuilt not as 'it had been,' but better
http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/08/obama_says_new_orleans_rebuilt.html
President Barack Obama plans to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a speech in New Orleans Thursday (Aug. 27) that credits the city's rebirth to citizens, government and corporate leaders working together to rebuild not just the city as "it had been," but smarter and better.
During his visit, his ninth as president to Louisiana, Obama plans to meet with residents who rebuilt after the devastation 10 years ago. He is scheduled to give a speech at the newly opened Andrew P. Sanchez & Copelin-Byrd Multi Service Center in the Lower 9th Ward, a $20.5 million facility, complete with a 25-meter swimming pool, which replaced the center destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.
"Not long ago, our gathering here in the Lower 9th might have seemed unlikely," Obama will say, based on prepared remarks made available by the White House. "But today, this new community center stands as a symbol of the extraordinary resilience of this city and its people, of the entire Gulf Coast, indeed, of the United States of America.
"You are an example of what's possible when, in the face of tragedy and hardship, good people come together to lend a hand, and to build a better future."
Um, Barack, the school system has been privatized, and tens of thousands of its residents have not returned ten years later.
