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The Port of New Orleans and WHY We Must Rebuild!
Various ^ | 9/15/05 | Various

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!!!


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: border; economy; export; import; katrina; neworleans; rebuildingno; trade; useyourowncash; whyrebuild
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To: Calpernia
The Port of New Orleans is infrastructure. You like playing word games, huh?

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.

101 posted on 09/16/2005 6:51:08 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel

New Orleans has to be made habitable in order to have a functioning port.


102 posted on 09/16/2005 6:56:30 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Lurker

New Orleans is a border. N.O. Port is US infrastructure.


103 posted on 09/16/2005 6:57:59 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia
The US didn't build it, the private sector did. Let them rebuild it.

Man, you're awfully generouse with other peoples money. That's the defining trait of a true socialist.

L

104 posted on 09/16/2005 7:21:56 AM PDT by Lurker (Reality cannot be changed by wishful thinking, good intentions, or legislation.)
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To: Calpernia
New Orleans has to be made habitable in order to have a functioning port.

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.

105 posted on 09/16/2005 7:35:22 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: patriciamary

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.


106 posted on 09/16/2005 7:39:38 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: Shalom Israel

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.


107 posted on 09/16/2005 7:44:38 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for posting this thread. So many people don't have a clue. They only think NO is the French Quarter and Bourbon Street.


108 posted on 09/16/2005 7:47:30 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: Lurker

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?


109 posted on 09/16/2005 8:21:03 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Shalom Israel
I didn't see a break down of how aid will be allocated, have you?

I said the port has to be rebuilt and the town has to be made habitable.

Are you privy to how the monies will be spent? I'm not.
110 posted on 09/16/2005 8:22:58 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: CajunConservative

What is this obscene focus on N.O.? I've never seen so much protest on disaster aid before.


111 posted on 09/16/2005 8:26:07 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: atomicpossum

Radical idea, Remove the levies and establish the port 100 miles north.


112 posted on 09/16/2005 8:27:57 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Calpernia
I didn't see a break down of how aid will be allocated, have you? I said the port has to be rebuilt and the town has to be made habitable.

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.

113 posted on 09/16/2005 8:33:58 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Calpernia

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.


114 posted on 09/16/2005 8:34:25 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: Calpernia
What is this obscene focus on N.O.? I've never seen so much protest on disaster aid before.

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.

115 posted on 09/16/2005 8:36:33 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: CajunConservative
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 mean you think they'll like us better if they realize that we're socialists too? I don't quite get your point, sorry.

116 posted on 09/16/2005 8:37:19 AM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel

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.


117 posted on 09/16/2005 8:42:40 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dem's can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: Calpernia
Link to article in Boston Herald this morning

http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=102853&format=

This article is worth a read. There are many ungrateful people showing up.

118 posted on 09/16/2005 8:43:43 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: Shalom Israel

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.


119 posted on 09/16/2005 8:44:29 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: CajunConservative

AND, who is waiting in the wings to jump on the opportunity?


120 posted on 09/16/2005 8:45:14 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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