99% of the people who post on the NOLA/Katrina threads know nothing about New Orleans except that it is in Louisiana, The other day someone said that the City is 20 feet below sea level and on another thread someone implied that the blacks in St. Bernard Parish are complaining too much and should not be permitted to rebuild. (They were apparently not aware a SB Parish's demographics)
When hurricane hit Florida or Mississippi most homes are destroyed. In New Orleans when a hurricane hits all I have ever had to do was replace a few slates and that 125 year old roof.
The City of New Orleans is as strong as those homes that have survived Betsy, Cammile, Katrina and the ones before my time. Those homes will survive many more storms and stand longer that any of us will be alive.
This shell game of promising funds for a project and then shuffling the funds around is indefensible. It is inherently dishonest. Clearly the only retort possible is to attack the people of Louisiana for being so flaky as to live in an area that has withstood two centuries of storms.