At which point you attacked like a scalded cobra.
Which anyone who has been to New Orleans and bothered to step out of the hotel or off of Bourbon Street can tell you is patently false and shortsighted.
I reply that anyone who knows how to read knows when someone's tongue is in their cheek. My consistent point has been that federal expenditure to rebuild the place is an abomination. The reason is moral and constitutional; it would be just as wrong to rebuild Saybrook CT, even though it's the Shining Jewel of the Universe(TM).
However, I did offer a few rhetorical arguments against rebuilding New Orleans specifically, and the main one is: why in the world would we be so eager to re-create the city whose murder rate was ten times the national average? Even if the food is awesome?
While you ponder that question, here's some beads--lets see them boobies o' yours.
...and then, yes, I asked you to shut up.
You told me to shut the eff up. Your description makes it sound so nearly... courteous. Then, because you have a gift for irony, you called me a "jerk".
I do not believe in using federal funds to rebuild the flawed parts of a flawed city either. You never bothered to find that out. It's not about rebuilding New Orleans for me right now. I'm still mourning a place that I came to love like a family member... because I took the time to fall in love with it... unlike the unwashed and uncivilized millions who came to throw beads, flash boobs and puke in the gutter.
I have a fundamental problem with buffoons pissing on the memory of a place that they never visited or never bothered to know. Keep your bliss in ignorance. I give.