[WatchOutForSnakes]

Is it your position that there should be no man made barriers or protections against nature anywhere? No seawalls on the coast? No dams to hold back water? No barriers or walls of any kind to hold back landslides or rockslides? Just blow em all and let nature take it's course?

[river rat]

Not at all..
I'm simply attempting to be RATIONAL, an infrequent attribute for folks who think the Federal Government should finance their bad decisions, self destructive choices, and general sloth or insanity.

New Orleans is unique...

The cost of sustaining the lecherous non productive portions of the city and the corruption, is far beyond the value returned..

The "cost vs benefit" is certainly not there, where New Orleans is concerned.

In fact, if an environmental impact analysis and approval had to be secured before rebuilding much of the BELOW SEA LEVEL portions of New Orleans -- I'd bet they couldn't get it approved.

They shouldn't.

Semper Fi

[Uncle Sham]

"Is it your position that there should be no man made barriers or protections against nature anywhere? No seawalls on the coast? No dams to hold back water? No barriers or walls of any kind to hold back landslides or rockslides? Just blow em all and let nature take it's course?"

He's simply saying that he knows everything, that's all. River rat and Joan Kerry are smarter than us. They would never live someplace that is threatrened by nature such as San Francisco to earthquakes, or Sacramento which is surrounded by levees protecting the entire city from spring floods. They are smart. We are dumb. Live with it.