Business elite hopes for a New Orleans future without the poor

Times Online ^ | 9/9/05 | Giles Whittell

[junta]

Out with the welfare load blacks and in with the illegal immigrant to create not an Afro but a Latino-Carribean-Paris utopia.

[Killing Time]

If I remember this right there used to be an American billion, being one thousand million (1,000,000,000) and a British billion, being one million million (which I'm not going to write down and I don't know how to do superscript in html).

The British version has long fallen into disuse, even in the UK so I suspect that the reporter is just inumerate. Ye Gods, does the Times not employ sub-editors these days?

[Amalie]

I read this piece again; this belongs on the OP/ED page, not as news. I think this guy is just another race baiter, wanting to show that evil white folks just conspired from the day the hurricane started to ship their Negros out of town.

[commonerX]

"""Well, this would explain why Mayor Nagin is so hot to get the remaining residents moved out. The quicker New Orleans is depopulated, the quicker the city can condemn all that property via eminent domain, then sell it off to developers at a tidy profit to the city. With more than a few under-the-table payments made to the appropriate city officials, I'm sure...."""


Well all the water logged buildings will be condemned. I am sure they aren't intending to build $40,000 homes to replace them. You can be sure that eminent domain will be used big time. The poor will never be able to afford them but they might, and I say might, get enough money through compensation to move to some other poor area of some other poor city. Then again how much is their property worth now nearly nothing. There may wind up being a large number of poor that lost their home in the hurricane and can't afford another one.
Where are these people going to live?
And should we care or do anything for them?
I know some would say it's their fault anyway.

[pageonetoo]

This writer is a crack head. New Orleans isn't getting 200 Billion in aid they're getting a small portion of it.

They are, and will, get the majority of the money. I would probably agree with the $200 BILLION figure. After all, its' not their money! They just want the portion they can siphon...

[George W. Bush]

After they starve them out and seize their weapons and drag them away in handcuffs, seize their land.

Rename the city: New Keloreans.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Where are these people going to live?
And should we care or do anything for them?

Heard a radio report this morning that since Sunday, half the evacuees staying at the Austin Convention Center have left... they're moving on to stay with friends or relatives, or finding places of their own. Saw a report on FR yesterday that the same was happening at the Houston shelters. In another week or two, there may not be many left for "us" to take care of.

[Modernman]

Could the new New Orleans be a place of low poverty, low crime, good schools and minimal racial tension? Some affluent exiles, all white, hope so.

I guess, according to the Times, black exiles from New Orleans don't want these things.

And liberals call conservatives racist? Imagine if a conservative paper had proposed that blacks are not interested in "low poverty, low crime, good schools and minimal racial tension."

[commonerX]

""Heard a radio report this morning that since Sunday, half the evacuees staying at the Austin Convention Center have left... they're moving on to stay with friends or relatives, or finding places of their own. Saw a report on FR yesterday that the same was happening at the Houston shelters. In another week or two, there may not be many left for "us" to take care of.""

Good to hear. Do you think these people that move to other cities and friends will go back to NO or start a new where they are? And what impact are they going to have in their new town?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Do you think these people that move to other cities and friends will go back to NO or start a new where they are?

It's been reported that most of the evacuees in Houston and elsewhere were not interested in going back to New Orleans.

And what impact are they going to have in their new town?

Who can say? They'll probably be just like any other group of people who work, don't work, pay taxes, collect welfare, obey the law, break the law...

Why? Do you think "these people" are somehow... different?

[commonerX]

""Why? Do you think "these people" are somehow... different?""

No, just wondering if there could be any bad or good things to come of it.

Some questions like:
If 2000 New Orleaner show to apply for jobs that existing local residents are applying for could there be some tensions or problems?
Are people going to start resenting the people that decided to stay?
Will these people be treated differently by local politicians?
School systems could have problems?

There could also be a sense of community and coming together to help embrace their new residents.

There is a lot of displaced people.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I think most of the people will be absorbed with little notice by their new communities.

The only things they did as a group were get hit by the hurricane, and get shipped to the evacuation centers. Since then, they've been acting as individuals, and families.

Texas received ~200,000 evacuees... if they all stayed in the state (and not all will) that means that the population of Texas increased by about 1%. According to the Census Bureau the population of Texas has increased 6.1% over the last three years.

I think the state can handle it with little problem.

[commonerX]

Most communities probably can handle them.
But it is something that most communities never had to deal before.