Posted on 09/15/2005 7:44:41 PM PDT by Calpernia
Located at the mouth of Mississippi River, the Port of New Orleans is America’s gateway to the global market. New Orleans has been a center for international trade since 1718.
Today, the Port of New Orleans is at the center of the world’s busiest port complex — Louisiana’s Lower Mississippi River. Its proximity to the American Midwest via a 14,500-mile inland waterway system makes New Orleans the port of choice for the movement of cargoes such as steel, grain, containers and manufactured goods.
The Port of New Orleans is the only deepwater port in the United States served by six class one railroads. This gives port users direct and economical rail service to or from anywhere in the country.
New Orleans is one of America’s leading general cargo ports. A productive and efficient private maritime industry has help produce impressive results, including the USA’s top market share for import steel, natural rubber, plywood and coffee.
In the last 10 years, the Port of New Orleans has invested more than $400 million in new state-of-the-art facilities. Improved breakbulk and container terminals feature new multipurpose cranes, expanded marshalling yards and a new roadway to handle truck traffic.
Maritime activity within the Port of New Orleans is responsible for more than 107,000 jobs, $2 billion in earnings, $13 billion in spending and $231 million in taxes statewide.
The Port of New Orleans has also been a defined area where foreign merchandise gets brought into the country without being immediately subject to the usual U.S. Customs regulations!!!
A port doesn't cost $200 billion. Bush didn't promise to rebuild a port, he promised to rebuild all of New Orleans. By referring to the whold ball of wax as a "port", you are playing word games. Socialism doesn't work.
New Orleans has to be made habitable in order to have a functioning port.
New Orleans is a border. N.O. Port is US infrastructure.
Man, you're awfully generouse with other peoples money. That's the defining trait of a true socialist.
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Nonsense. A port can function on a few hundred employees. Many possible living arrangements are possible. Even if we pretend your false statement is true, that means constructing a small town within commuting distance, not> rebuilding the entire freaking city of New Orleans.
Well saying that an entire major US city is nothing but a ghetto with everyone stuck on welfare is preposterous. I am tired of everyone saying that there was nothing but welfare mooches in the entire city. Yes there was a high number in the NO Proper, but once you get out past the tourist traps and inner city you discover a wonderful city full of entrepreneurs, hard working families, artists, musicians, professionals, average joe blows, and tax payers of all ethnic flavors and combinations.
It is just like any other major metropolitan area, the urban areas has the typical inner city problems but the suburbs function just fine.
No it's not. I've lived there and it's a regular city just like Houston, Dallas, or Atlanta, for example, except the food tastes better. It is more than what the tourist brochure's say. Tourists aren't interested in the suburbs of any city.
Thanks for posting this thread. So many people don't have a clue. They only think NO is the French Quarter and Bourbon Street.
Our money has been being allocated to maintain US infrastructure this whole time.
Our tax monies have gone to the Port and levees this entire time.
You don't like how the gov has been running our infastructure, than vote to change it. Why are you so focused on keeping N.O. out of the same benefits all of our infrastuctures have been receiving up until now?
What is this obscene focus on N.O.? I've never seen so much protest on disaster aid before.
Radical idea, Remove the levies and establish the port 100 miles north.
You're allowed to be a socialist if you want to, but please keep it honest. You know that the proposal is to RE-build NEW ORLEANS. Not to build a port, and dwellings for dockworkers, nor to rehabilitate part of the city, but to rebuild the entire city. Pretending that Bush might have meant the docks only, or the docks and a few houses, is dishonest.
Are you privy to how the monies will be spent? I'm not.
But you don't see anything wrong with an estimated $200 billion for nothing but a dock and some houses? You think a port costs $200 billion dollars? Please be honest.
I don't understand it either. I mean we paid how much money for NYC after 9/11? That was only for a small area of devastation.
I mean if we don't rebuild what sort of message does this give to China, the jihadis and the rest of the world? Our enemies are paying attention here.
You're right that it's all objectionable. What makes this special is that it's such an astronomical amount of money being directed to unconstitutional uses. $200 billion is $676 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The actual bill will be at least twice that, of course--the estimate is never remotely met. It's one of the biggest socialist projects in our history.
You mean you think they'll like us better if they realize that we're socialists too? I don't quite get your point, sorry.
NO, they will see us as weak and unable to recover from a major disaster. Therefore they will be emboldened to attempt to destroy another major city. We ARE at war remember.
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=102853&format=
This article is worth a read. There are many ungrateful people showing up.
Ah no. I don't know the proposal. And the Port of New Orleans is more than a dock. In order to have a functional port, that would mean to make the city habitable plus a functioning port.
So I don't follow any of your post.
AND, who is waiting in the wings to jump on the opportunity?
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