DISCUSSION: New Orleans

[Hobgoblin]

The Big Easy has been somewhat forgotten (by us and the media) over the past few years. So this is the place to discuss the continued reconstruction of the city and whatever problems it still faces.

Part of me wonders if it will ever fully recover. Who knows how long it will take to get it back on its feet. A decade from now, maybe. By that time, the former residents will have become settled in their new homes and may not be willing to return. On the other hand, can we afford to have a crumbling city laying open on the Gulf of Mexico? It would be a great meeting place for criminals and terrorists to meet and plan attacks if we left it vacant.

I also found an interesting article from the LA Times about how the recession hasnt hit New Orleans. Construction is booming, anyway.

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/03/nation/na-rebuilding-new-orleans3

 

[Kurosawa]

From what I've been told, the city is covered up with illegals doing the work there-those jobs are not going to Americans.

 

[StorminNorman]

I don't really care about New Orleans frankly. The degree of ruin they faced from Katrina is the fault of their local governments, and those idiots re-elected most of them.

 

[Schlosser85]

From what I've been told, the city is covered up with illegals doing the work there-those jobs are not going to Americans.

Why is that not surprising....I guess where there's mud, pigs are gonna come roll in it.

 

[Addendum]

I don't really care about New Orleans frankly. The degree of ruin they faced from Katrina is the fault of their local governments, and those idiots re-elected most of them.

It was the fault of all levels of government (municipal to federal)

 

[Hobgoblin]

I don't really care about New Orleans frankly. The degree of ruin they faced from Katrina is the fault of their local governments, and those idiots re-elected most of them.

Unite, not divide.....as long as I like you?

 

[Schlosser85]

I have some ideas for construction projects in New Orleans that could solve the problem of illegals overruning the construction industry and create more jobs to carry out these construction projects, but maybe I shouldn't elaborate on them here, as they might involve Jimmy Hoffa types of unique construction projects.

 

[StorminNorman]

It was the fault of all levels of government (municipal to federal)

Compare Mississippi to New Orleans.

Unite, not divide.....as long as I like you?

Personal responsibility. When you re-elect the leader that failed you, my sympathy for your failures is naturally reduced. I don't hate Nagin because I don't like him, but it's because he was completely incompetent.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Personal responsibility. When you re-elect the leader that failed you, my sympathy for your failures is naturally reduced. I don't hate Nagin because I don't like him, but it's because he was completely incompetent.

And so the whole city should just be left to rot?

 

[Addendum]

Compare Mississippi to New Orleans

And? That doesn't change the fact that all levels of government failed in New Orleans.

 

[katie_girl09]

I think it's cold to say that you don't care about New Orleans because you find their government incompetent. You can't do very much to stop natural disasters. I just hope they can pull through and Gambit too.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I think it's cold to say that you don't care about New Orleans because you find their government incompetent. You can't do very much to stop natural disasters. I just hope they can pull through and Gambit too.

Exactly. You could find corrupt or incompetent government anywhere. Do all of those places deserve to be destroyed and abandoned? DC is screwed if thats the case.

 

[Nivek]

The one incredibly depressing aftermath is the abundance of people who think "Why should they waste their time rebuilding, it's just going to get hit again anyway". It boggles my mind I have heard that from more than a dozen people. What the hell is wrong with these people?

 

[StorminNorman]

And so the whole city should just be left to rot?

No. I am just saying I don't care. On a list of important issues in America, New Orleans ranks ahead of Birth Certificates and behind Orlando.

I think it's cold to say that you don't care about New Orleans because you find their government incompetent. You can't do very much to stop natural disasters. I just hope they can pull through and Gambit too.

It is a bit chilly.

Exactly. You could find corrupt or incompetent government anywhere. Do all of those places deserve to be destroyed and abandoned? DC is screwed if thats the case.

I never advocating destruction or abandonment (though you could question the sanity of rebuilding a city underwater).

 

[SuperFerret]

I too don't care about New Orleans to be perfectly honest. Though I wonder, with all the damage that the city endured, and the fact that they still went back to try and rebuild, just how much damage is needed before the city is just gone. I honestly thought when Katrina happened, that was it, no more New Orleans.