Me, I couldn't care less. Not relevant.
not if you don't want to be killed
Geologist receives threatening messages after `60 Minutes' segment (Louisiana)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527649/posts
Perhaps, but not with federal funds of any kind. Chicago and galveston were rebuilt without federal funds, and New Orleans should be, too. There is too much waste involved, and it's a state problem.
I'm going with a simple "no" on this one.
Absolutely not. No one can guarantee a levee system that can hold, it's that simple. No way should we funnel bajillions of tax dollars into another sinkhole. Let NOLA go. It's done for. I don't see it as anything more than a small city now. And that's fine.
Yes, of course it should be rebuilt. Only not in the same place. :)
NO. And keep Federal money out of it. If it survives let private enterprise turn it around somehow, a.g., as a moajor seaport.
If any one of us tried to mess with wetlands we would be fined and threatened by the environmentalists. Why do all those liberals down in NO want to displace those birds, fish and reptiles?
Anyone who wants to live in New Orleans should be allowed to rebuild ... a free market and free enterprise effort ... at his/her own expense.
Anyone who rebuilds in New Orleans should be required to be fully insured for potential loss.
Where does this leave Public Housing [the Projects]? Probably somewhere else. When those folks work their way out of the welfare system, they should be allowed to return to New Orleans ... to build whatever they choose to build, at their own expense, as long as they insure it fully against loss.
The only way for New Orleans to rise from the mud is for the government to get out of it. If people choose to rebuild a business and it fails ... they should have to decide where to go from there ... just like the rest of us.
I do not object to the federal government participating in the cleanup of the city. The overwhelming nature of this disaster probably requires that.
I do object to "the government" [the money they confiscate from you and me] being the means to guarantee a life in New Orleans to anyone. No one guarantees the life of any of the rest of us.
New Orleans became a failed, dangerous city because of government programs. The way forward should be by individual effort and determination ... not by government meddling and funding.
It is pretty well established that this lawlessness was wildly exaggerated.
The Mississippi River and the Gulfcoast terminals are vital to U.S. commerce.
Those who work in those terminals need housing. Someone needs to be there to provide services to those terminal employees. Grocery Stores, Hospitals, Car Repair, you name it.
Someone needs to figure out WHERE the rebuilding should occur.
Not below sea level.
Credibility lost. Adios.
Since the Mississippi River doesn't even want to flow to NOLA without massive, expensive, wasteful Yankee Corps of Engineers' works around the Atchafalaya River, we shouldn't waste any more money on this swamp
50 years is long enough to try to chain a major river. Free the Mississippi and build the port at its new mouth.
Its amazing to me that people whine about a paltry amount invested to rebuild Iraq to prevent terrorist recruitment but say nothing about the billions wasted on the real quagmire in NOLA
If they want to rebuild in the old location, not with federal money. Not with federally insured money. Not with federally guaranteed money.
Private money - sure. The US, in my opinion, will make _a_ New Orleans profitable. It does not need _the_ New Orleans. In any event, the rest of us should not have to pay for it.
Nobody should live in flat areas because of tornados. No one should live in the mountains because of snow storms and mud slides. No one should live in California because of earthquakes. No one should live in the west because of droughts. There were floods near Dallas last year, Texas must not be safe either!
On a less sarcastic note, I'm in New Orleans right now (well, technically I'm in the 'burbs right now, but I've been in and out of the city all week). Yeah, some infrastructure is a little messed up, but it isn't like the city was leveled. 95% of things are still standing. If you think people will just abandon a major city (major port, center of historical importance, great tourist town, etc) because of a couple of sections (i.e. the ninth ward) are messed up and everybody else might have to change out some carpet/windows, you are out of your mind.
Nope !!!!!!
Not until the links to the JFK assassination are finally cleared up.
My reaction is "so what". Virtually ALL of Holland is in the same fix---well below sea level. They seem to do OK with it.