Dear New Orleans: I'm Leaving You (Liberal gets mugged and cuts and run)

NPR ^ | 8/28/07 | Eve Troeh

[singfreedom]

You, too, huh? I was in mourning for the place until the residents started opening their mouths wanting handouts. I had loved New Orleans all my life until that point. The mourning period was over.

[river rat]

There can little hope for New Orleans, until the rats have been exterminated..
All of them....
Literally...

Nagin is attempting identify the turds in his Easter Basket as “chocolate”...
Well, they aren’t

[flowerplough]

Read that one can see NO’s true beauty by comparing it to the Islands. New Orleans shouldn’t be seen as the foulest, most crooked, least efficient of American cities, but rather as the cleanest, best-administered, and least-wasteful Caribbean city.

[Irishguy]

i agree ...they have to WANT it back. THey will have to TAKE it back..but like all dems, they will try to UNDERSTAND why, blame everyone and everything but themselves....sad, very sad...maybe she will wake up..but i wont bet on it...

i dont know about the police so i cant comment..

[hsalaw]

Here’s a thought: quit voting for dems, and maybe something will get done in New Orleans.

[Caesar Soze]

The writer reminds me of a certain class of people in, and around, Detroit. The generations of bad (Democratic) governance don't matter, the crumbling infrastructure doesn't matter, the poor services don't matter, the incredible crime rate doesn't matter ... because this city's got soul! Why can't you all see that? Why don't you love my city like I do?

In America we like an underdog, but these people take it too far.

[Dick Vomer]

dumba@@

[sphinx]

I know several people — some government, some private sector — who have been substantively involved with the N.O. relief effort. They all speak with a mixture of contempt and disgust with the local political structure. N.O. right now is full of outsiders trying to put things back together, but the locals keep throwing up roadblocks.

[cgbg]

We used to think that it would only take one mugging to turn a liberal into a conservative.

Apparently nowadays it takes at least two.

:-(

[rogue yam]

He told us the police department was sooooo corrupt and that the city had a thin facade of respectability, covering a filthy, grimy, dishonest center. I loved New Orleans, but I always found his description to be honest. So, I just never looked too deeply. I really, really wish the best for New Orleans. I miss it, but not enough to pay for all their shortcomings.

I have loved New Orleans since the 1970s despite knowing that everything you say here is absolutely true. Filthy, grimy, dishonest. Period. Great food, great music, unbelievable spirit and culture and yet utterly filthy, grimy, and dishonest. That's New Orleans.

But there is one more thing to be said. New Orleans is now run by black people who decry "white racism" whenever anyone raises the issues of corruption and incompetance. Thus there is no accountability.

[Mila]

“Today, $116 billion has been appropriated to remedy the effects of Katrina. The rebuilding effort includes: $17 billion for housing and community development; $8.4 billion for levees and flood control; $10 billion for Small Business Administration loans; and, $3.5 billion for highways and bridges.”

That amount was not just for New Orleans, but for the recovery of the entire Gulf Coast.

[crazyshrink]

Ok. I had quoted from a speech and was asked for verification. This is the only info I could find.

http://www.senate.gov/~budget/republican/pressarchive/2006/2006-08-22Katrinatally.pdf

[Mila]

Hi,
Well I know the whole thing is very confusing. When one says Katrina, everybody just thinks about New Orleans because of all of the press we’ve gotten. I have tried to find a breakdown as to what went to each state, but as of now I am having no success. Oh good gosh, I just realized I posted to you about this on another thread too. Didn’t realize that it was you. I’m sorry,please don’t think I’m on your case, I guess it’s just too early for me to be sharp.

Hey, I did find this, it’s not great but it’s something.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_082307R.shtml

[mvpel]

I launch into a litany. There are busted traffic lights, leaky sewer lines, mountains of debris, ...

And instead of getting out a stepladder and a shovel and a fresh light bulb, they curse the darkness. Pitiful.

[Clioman]

New Orleans simply re-proves an old proposition: you get the government that you deserve.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

The water ALWAYS wins.

[Hardastarboard]

N.O. is filled with people who are convinced that they are perfectly entitled to be ignorant, unproductive and hateful.

Hey, man, that's a big chunk of America today, especially in the cities.

[LibLieSlayer]

I have been going to New Orleans for over 38 years... and not once without a .45 ACP!

LLS

[50sDad]

As a straight, caucasian, up-tight Midwesterner, I have never gotten the lure of NO, nor understood the whole Marti Gras thing. Sooooooo, you have a celebration of sin in full Golden Calf proportions to make up for swearing off dounughts for forty days? Voodoo? The thin veneer of civilization planted in a flood-plain swamp, which, when outside funding drys up, overnight goes from this supposedly artisian utopia to Night of The Living Dead? And because I live a normal life and work for a living, my taxes are supposed to pay for repairing the infrastructure, not of my home town, but of a city which insists on being planted where a city shouldn't survive?

Suppose my neighbor built his home in the path of a old railroad. Trains don't come by often, but sooner or later, BAM! A train goes through his living room, destroying everything. The insurance company says, "hey, fire and earthquate, sure, but we TOLD you a train runs through there!" They're not paying. So my neighbor comes to me and says, "be a sport and build me a new house." I might get a hundred people together to volunteer their time out of Christian charity; I could try to convince Sears to give them beautiful new appliances, I possibly would give of my own pocket to see that they were in out of the cold. But you know, I definitely wouldn't be such an idiot as to help them rebuild the house right on the same railroad tracks.

[50sDad]

And for that matter, why would I prop up Nagin, a racist? If I said, “Cincinnati is a vanilla city, and it should be more so! Whites forever!” do you think the MSM would hang me twisting in the wind?