Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I was in Nawlins shortly before Katrina. It was about the same as this girl described before the hurricane, and I never care to go back.
Wife and myself were there just before Christmas of 1995. We couldn’t wait to get back home. It seemed to us that basically was a town where they all got drunk, stayed drunk, and it smelled like a Septic with the lid off. No such fond memories of N.O. as the young lady wrote of.
I was in New Orleans last summer for the ALA conference and it was great—but I’ve heard that since then the vermin have been returning home and the place is returning to its depravity.
I don't pay much attention to Katrina news, but I heard this number on the radio this morning and was stunned. Not to belabor the obvious, but isn't this an awful lot of money?
I'd like to know how much Marshall Plan assistance Germany received after WWII in present dollars. I am going to go way out on a limb and bet that it was not this much money, although the infrastructure and cities of the whole country were in rubble.
But you know, the rubble had hardly stopped smoldering when people were picking through it cleaning up fallen bricks to be reused. Next thing you know, a modern industrial country is up and humming again.
Those people in Germany have their faults -- including a lack of rhythm and soul -- but, by gosh, they have a work ethic.
3 out of four family members here agree! 4th hasn't been there.