[jimfrommaine]

Great society programs have cost this nation trillions of dollars. African-Americans were promised a better life, yet generations have become tied to welfare for their survival. And families have been destroyed. Single parent homes seem to be the norm not the exception.
How can anyone with compassion, want to rebuild New Olen's and the gulf region with the same ignorance that ultimately caused the disaster? Free Enterprize zones, minority home ownership, school vouchers, reliance on faith based institutions, will wipe out poverty in the gulf, and folks throughout the nation will demand it. The federal bureaucracy can be dismantled. By doing the right thing, hope and opportunity will be create for folks, and we'll save trillions of dollars over the next generation.

[johnb838]

... will wipe out poverty in the gulf

That's the $200 bill. gamble isn't it. But, we do at least have to rebuild the freeways. Why doesn't anyone even mention the idea of leaving the ruined homes as landfill and pumping in mud to raise the city and deepen the lake rather than just building so far below sea level again? The city didn't used to be so low.