[wagglebee]

New Orleans has been a cesspool forever, everyone who visits invariably reports feeling unsafe. But the more I read, the more I lose any sense of compassion for the suffering there. The population that remained in the city has behaved in an almost identical fashion to the Iraqi insurgents; if they had the ability to make bombs, I'm sure they would.

At this point it is starting to make less and less sense to even bother rebuilding this sh*thole. The two main industries in N.O. have been oil and tourism. The oil operations can be managed from elsewhere and I don't think their tourist trade will EVER recover.

[pterional]

I agree. I spent three months there and you really couldn't walk around outside the french quarter north of rampart street without getting mugged or worse. The area along the garden district was safe but majority of NO was like inside eight mile perimeter of Detroit.

I think this event had two disaster the storm then the wrath of the criminal element. Clearly the first is easier to accept.

This is also the first time the US taxpayers have seen the enormity of a population that is extremely dependent on government handouts. A population that has no skills, no education, and is growing rapidly. What are we going to do????