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Let's build a new New Orleans
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| Sunday, September 11, 2005
| Morton Marcus
Posted on 09/13/2005 7:48:55 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Paloma_55
What? Use their own money? Bite your tongue! The refuges of NO have it all coming to them, and we should pay for it all! /sarcasm
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posted on
09/13/2005 3:50:51 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(It is all my fault okay?)
To: Willie Green
You want to pass the hat or are you going to point the gun and take it like usual?
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posted on
09/13/2005 3:52:06 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Willie Green
Dome it! But will they listen? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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posted on
09/13/2005 4:10:07 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: driftless
is to haul in millions of tons of rock and dirt to raise the NO at least ten feet above sea level. Not that farfetched. It was done over a hundred years ago in Galveston, with much more primitive equipment than is available now. There is continuous dredging on the Mississippi river, to remove sandbars and other impediments to river traffic. Load it into barges and unload it in NOLA. Decide ahead of time what is to be kept and what is to be buried. Jack up what is worth saving, fill in underneath. Level the rest.
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posted on
09/13/2005 4:24:56 PM PDT
by
rock58seg
("Guest Workers," W's version of, "Read my lips." Secure our borders!)
To: null and void
When I was Asst. Export mgr. for a large paper co. with many plants along the river. We invariably negotiated for ocean liners to use the port of Baton Rouge, for our products. Even our own LASH ships used BR as their home port.
The necessity for NOLA as a port is overrated
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posted on
09/13/2005 4:36:50 PM PDT
by
rock58seg
("Guest Workers," W's version of, "Read my lips." Secure our borders!)
To: Cat loving Texan
You're showing a certain naivete here. Texas is grand, but untold tons of goods still travel down the Mississippi River, which in the 21st century is still vital. The Mississippi doesn't run through Texas. Like it or not, the Mississippi Delta is in Louisana, not Texas or Florida.
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posted on
09/13/2005 4:44:59 PM PDT
by
Melas
(The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
To: rock58seg
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posted on
09/13/2005 6:31:19 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
To: Willie Green
One thing we are sure to see is the tourist, port and other commercial activities fully working before the projects get rebuilt. So the question is why rebuild unneeded housing unless it is at a person's own personal risk. What amazes me about public housing is that the feds build public housing were there is high unemployment. They should only build subsidized housing were there is low unemployment.
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