[IronMan04]

It was the best speech of his presidency and will go down in history as a best ever by a president. He reassured the people of the Gulf Coast that they will no longer suffer and made inroads for the GOP to heal relations with African Americans.

[Jaysun]

Support the President. To do otherwise is an exercise in futility in this case.

[endthematrix]

"what should we be doing instead?"

If you are so inclined "to do something," what about DOING nothing?

[gulfcoast6]

NOTHING can be done about New Orleans, it is the most corrupt city in the US, has trained its citizens to play the 'free give me anything and everything', the politicians are crooks, big time. Nothing will change, the food stamp lines will be longer, fighting over free housing, just pile the money in as they are going to do and it will be the same.

The Port? They could go to Houston.

[wgeorge2001]

[What should we do about New Orleans?]

Do not allow politicians to handle the taxpayers money lest the majority of the funds disappear and many pols become richer and fatter and more arrogant and the people suffer as usual.

[mmercier]

Build the wall we need on the Mexican boarder...?

That is how this will all shake out in the end, we will not lose that city regardless of those who currently control the place.

We have defeated nature before and will do so yet again.

And no one will notice (where the money goes) hopes Nagin and the twit Governor Blankbraino.

[isthisnickcool]

Build a state-of-the art cargo port, a small town for the workers, flood the rest and abandon New Orleans. Let them replicate the French Quarter in Vegas.

Re-building a city ina hole surrounded by water is just dumb. More insane than building it there in the first place.

It's 25 feet below the water line. 25 FEET! Would you build a house inside a 25 foot deep swimming pool surounded by water? Some dolts would if they could get the stupid federal gov't to fund it then provide them with flood insurance.

* NOTE - The movers and shakers in Louisiana are praising the president this AM. Which means that the people that run the most corrupt state in the country are well on their way to stealing huges amounts of US Treasury dollars from the taxpayers.

[Brainhose]

The estimate is up to 200 Billion smackeroos.
That is roughly $714 per man, woman and child in the US.
And thats including non taxpayers. When I'm asked to give to Katrina I say I'm already giving and will be continuing to give to Katrina til the day I die.
Flood the damned city and turn it into a scuba divers tourist attraction.

[aimhigh]

Bury the city and create the world's largest time capsule for some future generation.