[dennisw]

NEW ORLEANS - With a major levee break finally plugged, engineers struggled to pump out the flooded city Tuesday as authorities braced for the horrors the receding water is certain to reveal. 

"It's going to be awful and it's going to wake the nation up again," the mayor warned.

IOW pay up you suckers! Pay up all US taxpayers! Pay up whitey, you owe us! Cough up billions to rebuild our submerged sin city

[Taliesan]

All the money that is pouring in from everywhere I'll bet is enough to give every private homeowner in the city a substantial cash allowance for a new home elsewhere -- andthat is what should be done with the money, instead of "rebuilding" the cesspool.