Posted on 12/03/2005 8:40:39 AM PST by caryatid
I suppose the prevailing sentiment is so anti-NO elected officials that they may be voted out of office, so Gov. demands that they be kept in office past their terms expiration date.
I'm not a big fan of congressional oversight investigations but this is one that I think could be useful. The feds have enough dollars put into the New Orleans area via the Corps of Engineers, Schools, roadways, public safety, etc. that they can do an all encompassing look at the money, where it went and was graft/fraud prevelant.
I wonder why Nancy Pelosi never comments on Democratic Louisiana's culture of corruption..?
In other words, if they could have been more succinct?
As I said on another thread this morning, PLEASE DON'T SEND ANY MORE MONEY TO NOLA. For things to really change in the Big Easy, like any drunk or drug addict, it will have to hit absolute rock bottom. Throwing money at it will only serve to insulate the usual suspects who've been the problem for the last 80 years.
For the area to really get better NOLA shouldn't have a population exceeding 250,000---that means the 9th Ward and Gentilly areas wouldn't have been rebuilt and the power bases for the corrupt Democrat machine that has run the city, the state and its inhabitants into the ground will have vanished.
Absent this political cleansing, nothing will change and all of those billions will have gone down a rathole.
I can't do any more than speculate but on that basis, one way it fits together is for Nagin to have gotten nervous about having the Feds around without anywhere near enough cops to display to back up earlier claims of a force of 1700. That would explain why Blanco and Nagin both refused to allow the Red Cross or the Salvation Army in, until they'd cleaned up some things they wanted to stay hidden. It explains why Brown couldn't get any sense or information out of them, why the Louisiana National Guard were the only ones allowed in, and why the "blame Bush" ploy was implemented so quickly.
The Vegas yarn then, under that scenario, is a desperation ploy, when the state and local government can no longer hold back the Feds.
Another way it all fits together is....well, I can't think of one.
Can you?
Get the Feds in there.
Give them the good kevlar flack jackets, this is mob territory after all.
Clean house and take no prisoners.
Do you think it may be time for another Federal District ... like D.C.? That thought keeps popping into my mind more and more.
For the time being, federalize all of Orleans Parish [City of New Orleans] ... and as much else as necessary ... and let the fun begin. Once that happens ... let "them" petition for "home rule" from time to time ... but keep the Federal thumb on the money and see what ... if anything ... can be done to bring this banana republic into comformance with the laws of civilized society.
I have seen evidence that the folks of Uptown would love to secede from the City of N.O. ... they survived the hurricane ... and there is a higher incidence of advanced degrees than the country at large. They may be quite capable of self-governance as a separate entity.
All the rest goes into the federal district ... all control would be removed from both the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana. If they don't like that ... well, Hey! they can forego federal dollars for rebuilding their city ... and rebuild it any other way they can [not a bad alternative solution, anyway].
Can anyone think of any better solution?
I'm wondering who the insurance company is for Sewell Cadillac. You *know* they are not going to be paying out claims for those stolen Cadillacs without looking for lots and lots of answers.
To claim something is stolen you need to file a police report. Imagine the guy taking the police report!
"Do you think it may be time for another Federal District ... like D.C.?"
Yes.
But there's an easier way. Accomplish the same thing without the label's negative connotations. A two pronged approach. One, massive investigations, and the force necessary to carry them out. As it is, the mob essentially owns the city now. It will take big feet to stamp them out. Two, let the feds take over re-construction, with another massive force to accomplish the task.
No suspension of states rights, habeaus corpus, or establishment of a federalized zone, just two really big projects, and the security necessary to carry out both of them.
The local and state government will be responsible for picking up cigarette butts in the parks.
deport, I meant to include you in my Post No.28.
That might exceed their capabilities. LOL
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Any Compass ties to the reported 23% of the NOPD cops who were on the city's payroll, but weren't really in the city at all?
----Me too. I want to see Nagin brought down because of his supporters that seem to have an excuse for everything he has lied about and done during/since Katrina . I just knew he was in deeper and just as corrupt as Blanco.
My hunch when I heard the news, as to Nagin laughing about him sending the N.O. cops to Las Vegas, wherever (I think he changed his destination and sent them to Florida or Atlantic City or something), anyway, my hunch was that he was sending them WITH a purpose, WITH a plan to get, very probably, all those false salaries out of the city, out of the state, to somewhere else.
I think it's very likely that those trips, explained away as Nagin wanting the N.O. cops to have some "R and R" was what they call on the street, "making a run."
Running out "carrying"...in other words.
Because, Nagin made that announcement just after (by hours, like one morning after a night's news or thereabouts) it was made public that N.O. had been paying salaries for phantom cops. Nagin appeared very soon afterward, laughing, the Chief did, too, announced his retirement, and off the rest went to wherever (with whatever, likely as not).
Yes, I just wrote about it, my ideas...
I agree that it sure looks and did as it was happening that Nagin, Blanco and others in Louisiana were stalling for time, had ulterior motives for posing such obtuse and stange excuses as to the conditions there, appearing to thwart so many efforts to aid and assist and were just.far.too.quick.to.blame.the.feds; it just looked too questionable from the very beginning and once there was so much as a parcel of information out that Nagin, Blanco and Landrieaux (spelled? sorry) had not been competent on behalf of their own constituents, the blaming immediately increased as to Bush and FEMA.
I agree that Nagin seems to have refused anyone access to the area with odd insistence, drawing out ridiculous reasons why people were suffering.
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