[hh007]

Government money should be spent only on infrastructure above surge level, but who's to say the Mississippi levee itself wouldn't be breached someday and wash everything away. The whole thing seems a great risk. Maybe now's the time to bite the bullet, spend the taxpayer money upstream at Baton Rouge, abandon NOLA and let the river find it's natural course.

[Calpernia]

And a land grab at New Orleans would effect access to Baton Rouge.

[aShepard]

....."spend the taxpayer money upstream at Baton Rouge, abandon NOLA and let the river find it's natural course.
"........

Good idea.

Go to google earth, and check out the land on the river south of BR. As the river meanders south, there's lots of farm land, that could be bought up, bulldozed with the spoils to create levees around a new major port. Reroute the railroads to service this new worldclass port, dredge the river south if need be, and buy up more of the farmland to create port worker housing.

Let the high-ground in NOLA become a paradise for the gay and debauched fringe society, with hotels on high ground, queer bars, tittie joints, the superdome and casinos, with new housing surrounding the small city to support the pimps, ho's, casino dealers, etc.