Posted on 11/12/2005 7:01:26 AM PST by Libloather
Another story on Yahoo describes Nagin having trouble getting reelected - if there's an election at all.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051111/pl_usatoday/neworleanselectionmayorbothupinair
Nagin will be reelected. The Democrats will demand that Nagin's evacuated constituents be allowed to vote by absentee ballot and a sufficient amount of ballots will magically appear to ensure his reelection.
Any thing any one from Alaska has to say about spending money wisely is a total joke and waste of time. Until they drop their stupid "bridge to no where" they are just a bunch of buffoons, with no room to talk.
Idiotic statement - instead of doing it right, from the get-go, ensure it ends up costing 10 times what it should by "spreading it out".
It is cheaper to rebuild the city every hundred years than build to contain the perfect storm. There is no such thing as doing it right, just too many variables. For a reasonable amount they can try to contain a Cat 3. More than a Cat 3 is just uneconomical, and sets the taxpayers up for a bigger liability. Build for a Cat 3 with no warranty, people can then take their chances.
We produce a lot of heating fuel, gasoline, synthetic rubber for tires, the base products for a lot of building materials, detergents, and other petrochemical byproducts that we all use every day. Perhaps we could stop allowing the oil and gas industry from destroying our natural hurricane buffers, the coastal wetlands.
Let's see, how many states refuse any drilling off their coasts or refuse to allow drilling in ANWR? These same states also refuse to have more refineries built too.
"Bush repeated his commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast. But when asked if he supported Category 5 hurricane protection, he declined to answer."
"Even an enthusiastic supporter of rebuilding, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she was confused about who is calling the shots."
How can she make a decision when Bush hasn't? Sbe needs him to take a stand, so she can take an opposite one and call him a Repubican idiot or meanie.
I think that's how the Democrats are taking their positions nowadays.
That will not happen. The people of N.O. blame Nagin 100% for the lack of perperation and evacuation. Its the media that blames Bush. Not saying another Democrap won't get elected, but after this fiasco, not likely to happen!
I think the Gov and Mayor of NOLA think that by using the old axiom "the squeaky wheel gets greased" they will win out by whining loudly non stop everyone will cave and give, well Republicans are saying and rightfully so, I don't think so! LOL:)
keep in mind that the levees in New Orleans
are owned by the 'Orleans Levee Board', a state agency,
not the Army Corps of Engineers,
although the C-o-E may have some part in
their design.
Protection from the strongest hurricanes, state and local officials say, is essential to giving residents and businesses the confidence they need to return and rebuild.
You are right the "Not in my back yard" crowd is rather irksome, and pathetic.
Nothjing wrong with rebuilding New Orleans higher--as long as higher means on Higher ground. Its plain stupid to try to beat Mother Nature. Tear down the homes under sea level and build them, where they belong --on higher ground. Cheaper easier and smarter.
That's $127,921.04 EACH. For a family of four that's $511,684.14
Hell, just give them the money, tell them to move, then bulldoze the city and turn it back into a 'wetland' (swamp).
Okay, we keep the port open, but that's it.
The earthquake in Pakistan reminds me of something I read about Antioch, one of the great cities of the Roman Empire. It was leveled six times over a period of five hundred years. Each time it was rebuilt on the ruins of the destroyed city. Like living in Florida. Expect to get hit sometimes and prepare to rebuild until it becomes impossible.
$62,000,000,000 (billion) to rebuild a city of 484,674 people?!?
That's $127,921.04 EACH. For a family of four that's $511,684.14
That's what it's already cost for welfare for the displaced citizens of New Orleans. Right or wrong, that's what we do in America--dig deep to help those who have lost everything. I know that a lot of these people had little or no work before, but we don't ignore them. And yes, it's costing about $100k per person from FEMA for food and housing for up to 24 months.
But in many ways it was brilliant to disburse these people into the rest of the country. They have a chance to integrate with more opportunities than they had in New Orleans.
I have a buddy there now rebuilding. It's getting more back to normal but the Ninth Ward will never ever come back. It's too low and will become a park or something. I've heard that 60% of those residents owned their own homes though so Congress will probably vote to give each homeowner $150k for their house and lot and call it square.
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