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Associated Press reports that a year after Katrina, the President says that only now is rebuilding “beginning.”

President Bush said Monday the huge job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina was just beginning a year after the massive storm but expressed hope that the $110 billion of help sent from Washington would be enough.

Trying to erase the black mark left on his presidency by the administration’s sluggish response to Katrina, Bush returned to the first scene he saw a year ago of the storm’s devastation.

Standing on a vacant lot in a working class neighborhood where trailers and gutted buildings stand next to newly built homes, Bush pledged the federal government would stand with the region as it rebuilds. It’s a promise viewed with skepticism by victims still reeling from the storm.

Of the 110 billion dollars set aside for Katrina rebuilding, the government has not even used half; only used 44 billion have been spent.

As you may or may not know, much if not most of New Orleans looks pretty much identical to the day after the floodwaters left. The President has called the progress made so far “Amazing.” The man really is on another planet.

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