As one who is still here , I say BRAVO!
Every word is true.
What galls me is this constant mantra of ‘ right to return’.
No one’s RIGHT to return has been denied. The ABILITY to return is another thing altogether.
If one does not have the financial ability to return, I suppose the government is supposed to supply it?
We won’t even get into the ADVISABILITY of returning.
If you return to rebuild in a disaster zone where future disasters cannot be prevented, you’re insane; and I think politicians who ENTICE people back into a danger zone should be held criminally responsible.
Trying to revive N.O. after Katrina is like trying to administer medical care when the car wreck victims are still lying in traffic. It is unprotected, still below sea level, barely staggering to its knees, and there will be more hurricanes.
The ‘right’ to return hasn’t been denied anyone. One can travel freely to and from the city. It’s the MEANS to return that not everyone has.
There are some idiots who honestly believe the city is protected against future hurricanes by some cosmic lottery, but most here are stuck for financial or personal reasons. Everyone knows it’s only a matter of time. Katrina put an old, decaying city on the mats. The killer blow will come.