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!!!
There's the problem.
LOL...most certainly. I was being flippant.
I don't think we should write off California.
Well..maybe San Francisco. And we could probably let Berkeley go. LA really isn't doing much for us, so we could wave them goodbye.
Actually, all of Marin county would be better wet.
Oh heck. Let's set some nuclear charges along the San Andreas fault.
Not a new occurance. And not isolated to New Orleans.
There are modern day slave trades going on.
New Orleans had a nasty sex tourism industry called G&F Tours.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts
There are also networks in New Orleans and throughout the US that are bringing in immigrants, holding the hostage to work in nasty conditions, with the threat of punishment.
Keep an eye on ice.gov for almost daily updates on the immigration rings they are running down.
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/index.htm
hmmmm, Baja CA too....
Oh now you got me thinking!
That isn't an assumption. They(or at least some of them) stated that the bill did not have enough oversight and such so they couldn't vote for it.
Barton
Flake
Foxx
Garrett
Hostettler
King
Otter
Paul
Sensenbrenner
Tancredo
Westmoreland
Garrett
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Rep. Scott Garrett said Thursday he voted against sending $51.8 billion in emergency relief to the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina because the bill contained no accountability measures.
"I wanted to make sure that the people in the affected areas get every bit of assistance they absolutely need," Garrett said in a telephone interview from his office here. "We do that by making sure there's accountability through FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency)."
"Writing them a blank check and not being able to have oversight does not achieve that," said Garrett, R-Wantage.
newsday
Tancredo
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., said in a statement that he voted against the bill because it failed to include controls on how the money will be spent. He proposed creating a bipartisan oversight committee.
”It is our duty to get relief to persons affected by Hurricane Katrina. But it is political malpractice to spend taxpayers’ money without making sure that the aid is getting to the right people,” Tancredo said.
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Westmoreland
"Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA 8th) Friday defended his vote against the U.S. federal government's $51.8 billion hurricane aid package .... 'I certainly don't want to keep any money away from the relief effort,' Westmoreland said, speaking from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. But he said Congress approved the extra money without imposing any fiscal controls, which would help guarantee that the federal aid reaches the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. 'I don't think it's right to give the taxpayers money without some accountability,' Westmoreland said."
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I was on that thread. I stand by what I posted.
Rebuild the port. Just don't rebuild the centers of debauchery and sexual depravity like Bourbon Street and the place where they have the so called "Southern Decadence party."
And is Hostettler privy to the details of the investigations of the politicians?
Is he privy to knowledge as to whether these will be the same players in place politics wise?
Echo, you have gone from welfare housing to quoting politicians.
The ports need to be rebuilt. The town has to be made inhabitable.
The players that made the mess are not going to be blindly handed the dollars.
I think we are in agreement. I do believe my meaning of blindly handing money and your point of more oversight mean the same thing.
I don't think anyone can go and destroy a major infrastructure and not have a microscope...hmmm...implemented in a highly sensitive orifice. ;)
A BIG if,If they work and if they pay taxes.Old habits die hard.
I wrote Kalifornia off eight years ago.
There were a million and a half people in the Greater New Orleans area, the majority of those people were hard working tax paying people. Don't believe all the hype you have seen on tv. That is not the whole story. Do you honestly think that the whole city was nothing but a ghetto? It wasn't. Your ignorance is really tiresome.
Good point. I say build it wide and deep and full of gators.
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Did your money NOT go to New Orleans before?
Do you not benefit from US commerce?
Is New Orleans NOT a border?
Is New Orleans NOT a major US infrastructure?
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