But this is exactly the problem IF you lived there- You KNOW they haven’t properly rebuilt those levees, nor made it safe from the upcoming Hurrican potential.
SOoo – who would rebuild before that is taken care of? and Risk (again) all their livelihood and home and soul to the careless, feckless efforts and rebuilding uncompleted by the good ole FEDs (and Georgie-Porgie)?
Thus it become a type of self-fulling prophecy that folks will not return, not rebuild. It’s the results of the lack luster efforts to restore this area to even pre-Katrina levels of storm and hurricane withstanding forces. This insures it will fail to rebuild and remain at risk.
Blech…how I HATE that man!
]]>New Orleans isn’t just a Gulf Port, it is the most important river port in the US. Unless you can move the Mississippi, there’s no other place the port can be.
The Dutch can do it, so it’s not impossible.
]]>America needs a city located where New Orleans is, for practical reasons as much as sentimental ones. Unless we want our oil and other goods taken through a very, very overloaded Port of Houston, we’d better find some way to restore and protect New Orleans. I, for one, do not consider it optional: America needs New Orleans. (I’m also rather fond of the place, though my memories of it are many years old.)
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