NEVER rebuild this place. It is a blight...a hellhole created by the welfare state. The government raised three generations of dependent voters and now they are helpless when government proves once again that, no matter how many billions we have poured into it, it doesn't work.
Do you remember the massive flood in Houston several years ago? That city required little outside help because officials who were in charge did not sit on their butts and wait for Washington DC to help. NEVER expect help from Washington. They can only manage to cash your checks to the IRS.
We had mayor Lee P. Brown who was just as weak and ineffectual as Nagin, but we sidelined him early, let him give press conferences, and the grownups took over.
Texas is different somehow. It's as if we LIKE a challenge. We APPRECIATE an opportunity to rise to the occasion and show what we're made of.
Especially here in Houston. Don't know what that's all about. But, for example, when we won the basketball championships there was no rioting. None. In fact, crime went to ZERO for a couple of days as people celebrated. It was the strangest thing compared to other cities.
Houston is a better place to live than people give it credit for.