Posted on 01/21/2006 5:58:55 PM PST by securityMama
"*snort* What a goober! It's liberals, not conservatives, even the 'neo' kinds, who believe in the kind of central planning required for the New Urbanist ideas. Sounds like this guy just has a burr up his butt about conservatives."
LOL!
I can bump that with all of my heart!
I didn't have the time to read the article before I MS pinged y'all.
But, you are right...The New Urbanists are a bunch of libs.
They are building "City Centers" all over this area.
In the rebuilding plan, it would be nice to have walkable areas with a small town feel.
But, that can't be the entire focus of the plan.
I HOPE that they are more practical than the folks out here.
Goodness...they are doing everything possible to try to make our lives miserable.
The coast is going to build back up, maybe not the way WE saw it but it is coming back. First things first, GET THE TRASH, TORN UP HOMES PICKED UP. Th BIGGEST mistake was to bring in folks from parts unknown and let them START the clean up, most are gone now, the BIG money went with them. Apparently they, the powers that are, did not have faith in us Mississippians, the 'dumb ole boys' down there. Our 'use to be homes', our land. our state can be cleaned up by us 'good ole boys'. I am ashamed of the politicians for not jumping on this with both feet.
I am 70 years old, got me a tractor, a big ole chain, my ear phone radio and like so many, go to a neighbors house and pull trees into a pile for burning. It is like a war zone here up in the country but we don't fall to our knees begging for help, sure, we could use it but a neighbor is a neighbor. you help a person in need, least that is what my daddy taught me a long time ago.
--Kudos to them. Glad to hear it. You never hear the good things hardly about the effect Katrina had on other parts. Sheesh! You would think only New Orleans took a hit and they were the only news worthy ones. Thanks for the post.
1) You are not here on the ground, and you do not know what is happening HERE in Mississippi.
2) You are just spewing a knee-jerk reaction without knowledge of fact.
3) You can keep YOUR dang Tax money!
LLS
Well said!
It was a few 70 year old guys with tractors, chains and chainsaws that cut open HWY 22 and got us moving the day after Katrina here in Ponchatoula. Didn't see hardly any offical sorts, just the good-ole-boys. :)
My sister and b-i-l are doing what you're doing. Little by little they're taking the trees apart and cleaning the 20" of sand off the slab, which is all that remains of their concrete block cottage. What's interesting, is that the other house on their property, a wooden one that was behind the concrete block one, wasn't washed away, but it did end up 30' from it's original position. Fortunately, the county is helping those along the beach by hauling away the larger pieces of junk. I don't know if they'll rebuild or not; they're still considering it.That house had been there for quite a long time; it had survived Camille, so my sister thought it would make it this time.
It is just the way we are, 'what can I do to help you' NOT 'what can you do to help me'.
Uh, once again, I am not saying to not help rebuild.
However, we have had, what, eight major hurricanes hit the Gulf and Florida in two years?
The government used to rebuild after floods in the floodplain. They finally got out of that business by rebuilding once on higher ground.
Any honest assessment of risk has to look at how soon before it is likely that disaster will hit again. In the case of a floodplain, that is too often for taxpayers to repeatedly subsidize people who live there. Wheras earthquakes are typically 80+ year events. And tornadoes are at their worst a mile wide.
It is clear that the immediate Gulf Coast has become a major high-risk area in the current uptick of the hurricane cycle. As taxpayers, we have to make hard choices as to how tens of billions of dollars are to be used. Or else we'll be asked to spend them again way too soon. If you cannot deal with that concept, then you're part of the reason that we are seeing some Katrina fatigue in this county. It's not that we're not willing to help and help big. It's just that we are not willing to pay to simply set up the bowling pins again.
Did you know that the majority of homes & businesses which were washed away, were NOT in flood plains? I understand what you're saying regarding rebuilding, but keep in mind that few destroyed buildings were in "flood plains". New Orleans is a different case in point - as you probably are aware, most of the city is below sea level - Big, Big difference from coastal Mississippi.
They are instead right on the Gulf Coast, which, in this hurricane cycle uptick, carries a very high level of risk.
I'm sorry, but living on the Gulf Coast now carries too much risk to ask taxpayers to subsidize rebuilding in place. If you want to enjoy living on the coast, rebuild on your own dime. If you wish to move past the point of Katrina's surge, then by all means, taxpayers should help.
"you help a person in need, least that is what my daddy taught me a long time ago."
That's what most Mississippians were taught,
and are STILL taught.
It's just one reason why I love MS!
"Take the light rail project. It will cost a huge amount of money to build, and people here in Mississippi will never use it. People here want to DRIVE"!
The folks in OR didn't want light rail.
Never mind that it was voted down, they built it anyway.
Folks here want to DRIVE, too.
So, we have empty light rail cars, and full to the brim streets.
"You are spot-on in your assessment!"
Why, thank you!
I've lived with the New Urbanists for over a decade.
Mayor Holloway is one smart cookie to rebuff it.
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