The WSWS

notes the callous disregard for residents of New Orleans by Bush returning to the scene of the "crime," as the publication calls it:

It’s difficult for many residents to see progress, because for them there is no progress. According to a recent study by the Institute For Southern Studies, “The Katrina recovery is failing. As of mid-August [2007], 60,000 people are still living in ‘temporary’ FEMA trailers because of hold-ups on aid programs and insurance. Schools and hospitals are shuttered, good jobs are scarce and daily threats to health and wellbeing aren’t addressed.”

The Los Angeles Times observed, “Off his [Bush’s] route in the Lower Ninth Ward, there was even more evidence [of devastation]: entire blocks deserted, with no sign of rebuilding attempts, and store after store boarded up.”