[Saints fan]

Washington also has a moral burden. It was the Federal Government's responsibility to build levees that worked, and its failure to do so ultimately led to New Orleans' being flooded.

[rawcatslyentist]

I'd rather they built a colony on the moon first! Almost as practical as a mass populated underwater city!

[capt. norm]

I think we could learn a lot about this from the Dutch. In my book, they are the world authorities in dikes, levees and flood control.

They have been at it a long time and I would imagine engineers from there could be hired to come over and come up with a plan for New Orleans. If they can't, at least we'll know we tried

[alarm rider]

Excuse me for a bit of common sense, but NO will never be the same. And it should not be the same. The logic of rebuilding is lost on many people, and I am one of them.

OK, rebuild the port, and leave the French Quarter and whatever else is still in tact, but the absolute stupidity of rebuilding homes below those levees is just freakin' nuts.

Let nature reclaim what needs to be reclaimed.

[Enchante]

"It was the Federal Government's responsibility to build levees that worked, and its failure to do so ultimately led to New Orleans' being flooded"

This is idiotic. The canal walls that failed were local projects, as were much of the levee system. Gingrich is sounding more like a Democrat every day....

[winker]

The restoration of New Orleans is a costly mis-adventure in tax money wrongly spent. Even if the next hurricane season spares this chocolate fiasco, sooner or later it will all happen again you know it and so do I. It is time to face the fact that this place has run out of luck and the taxpayers should not be obligated to throw good money after bad. The present location is not worth the massive expenditure involved and should be moved far north of its present location where it can be stabilized. If the local millionaires want it rebuilt let them pony up the bucks not the national taxpayers once again.

[Willie Green]

So have they completed the preliminary design specs for the Category 5 levees?
Or are the political bureaucrats still on their Spring Tulip Tour of Holland?

[Mrite]

Poor planning and not knowing how to get the hell out of Dodge played a major role in NO's current woes. The Florida Keys are much more vulnerable than NO, with one way in, and one way out...the residents are familiar with both and have sense enough to heed the warnings and get out.

[Alex Murphy]

Washington also has a moral burden. It was the Federal Government's responsibility to build levees that worked, and its failure to do so ultimately led to New Orleans' being flooded.

New Orleans had a greater moral burden. The behavior of it's elected officials and "let's stay and party the hurricane away" citizenry showed how badly they'd failed theirs.

[RightWhale]

Washington also has a moral burden.

A common error to talk of the state as if it is an individual subject to psychology. If the state is an individual subject to psychology, it would be considered insane.

[mosquewatch.com]

Dear Mr. and Mrs. News reporters, Let me take this opportunity to tell you to go to hell, for making N.O. the ONLY place in the south, devastated by Katrina. It is very clear to me now, white people suffering, does not make a great news story.

I am not a racist, and have no ill feelings to anyone of another color , my complaint is with the idiots in the media. I live in this armpit of America that use to be a wonderful and beautiful place to live (Gulfport), it seems the media doesn't give a rats arse about anywhere else except New Orleans.

Places like Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, totally wiped off the earth, no mention, no care, no coverage.

Damn you media idiots, for your fixation on New Orleans, we all are knee deep in crap here. Every time we look out the window while making a pot of coffee, go to the store, get a hair cut, go to work (for those of us whose jobs were destroyed) we see the devastation. There are days people OUTSIDE OF NEW ORLEANS that people don't want to wake up, today is one.

Jeff Davis

[Ed_in_NJ]

Donald Trump was on Fox News last week - said the city should be raised above sea level (dump dirt to raise it) or abandoned.

There was a 5.2 earthquake a few weeks ago, 100 miles south of NO. It is the largest quake ever in that area, and was ignored by the MSM. The New Madrid Fault is overdue for a 'big one' -- no telling what that would do to NO/levee.

Hurricanes, quakes and bombs are all threats.

[hgro]

Spending money on a rat hole is insanity. New Orleans population should be relocated to flood free land and the part of the city on higher land made into an amusement park.

[expatpat]

IMO, those parts of the city that are above sea level should be saved, those parts below it should revert to parkland or farmland.