Posted on 08/30/2006 12:51:22 PM PDT by Ellesu
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina behind him and the task of rebuilding New Orleans' shattered economy just beginning, Mayor Ray Nagin will lead a two-day pitch to New York's investment community designed to bring much-needed business to the storm-devastated city.
The delegation of business and public sector leaders will spend Friday and Saturday at a theater in lower west side Manhattan, touting city and federal tax breaks for investment, encouraging filmmakers to return to the city and seeking commercial sponsors for next year's Mardi Gras, an idea that didn't take off in 2006 as the city struggled through a scaled-back Carnival season.
With images of the devastation dominating national news media this week, New Orleans is struggling to market itself.
According to the state Labor Department, the metropolitan area had 173,000 fewer non-storm related jobs in July 2006 than in July 2005.
Nagin's trip, dubbed the New Orleans Economic Development Tour, will begin in a city that experienced its own disaster nearly five years ago — the 911 terrorist attacks. Nagin, faced with questions from a CBS "60 Minutes" crew about the slow pace of New Orleans recovery, created a controversy when he quipped, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
No investment company is going to put money into this sinkhole unless they are guaranteed a good return from the government bucks, which of course is illegal.
I wouldn't invest money in Nagin and Blanco.
He'll be lucky to escape NYC uninjured after his recent boorish outburst. He'd be well-advised to steer clear of the "hole in the ground", lest some pissed-off construction worker or tower-collapse survivor or firefighter gets a mind to shove him into it. Steering any NYC business to New Orleans is an audacious pipe-dream.
No, he needs to head straight here to Houston, and get his damned murderers, rapist, and gang-bangers back to NO and out of my neighborhood.
OH no, y'all are awful.
Awfully funny!!
NOLA bar, "All Chocolate and Full of Nuts"
From another post:
Anyone that says to hell with New Orleans both does no favors for conservatives and does no favors for America.The only thing they are doing is helping the libs stay in power in New Orleans and continue to destroy the City to the point where it is filled with Iraqi type blind ignorance and devotion to the very parties causing the problems.
The President has chosen to lead on this issue. What a shame it is that so many conservatives have chosen to undercut him with snide accusations and cruel blather and sit back and hope for the worst for fellow Americans.
Why should anyone give conservative principles a chance when so many conservatives claim not to give a damn about them?
Keep making comments like that and you will be falling right into the "conservatives don't care" trap liberals are all too willing to set - and if you don't think libs use those type comments to prove Republicans don't care then you are living in a dream world. You aren't doing conservatives any more favors than Nagin does New Orleans with his chocolate city remarks. Something for all of us to think about maybe.
Exactly what I thought, as I read the article.
Nagin wants money for WELFARE/Section 8 housing. He wants all of the poor people to "come home". There are all kinds of PRIVATE rebuilding in NO and so to re building restaurants and tourist traps; where the problem is, is with the slums and Nagin doesn't want gentrification and/or a color change in his voter base.
Since WHEN are other cities and the Fed Gov responsible for helping him recreate a PLANTATION of the worst sort?
Since you can't read too well I'll boil it down. Negative comments about the people in New Orleans such as "Chocolate City" does nothing to advance conservative principles there any more than it does help Nagin promote his agenda.
It is called putting forth your agenda and maintaining higher ground instead of sinking to the level of liberal slime masters.
Of course, he could travel just 90 miles East to Biloxi and see how Mississippi is doing it!
Why don't all the LA Demagogues resign their positions? At least with a clean slate in offices there it might be conceivable to gain some traction with investors - but who in their right minds would invest in a city led by Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin or a state led by Governor Blankhead????
I honestly didn't get the same interpretation as you from the quote. I was not aware that conservatives had been portrayed as 'heartless' about NOLA. My own family gave everything we had to spare, $300 cash matched by hub's employer, and every stitch of clothing that was decent, not to mention all the trips for comfort items.
We were about to take in some people until we began to hear bad things. Our crime rate went up. 5 or 6 volunteers at one center had their cars stolen [later recovered in NOLA.]
I would say this is not about votes, Condor. And, you are dealing with a community that the liberals have taught to expect assistance and to expect 'the big easy' way of life. It's hard to teach new tricks.
And since your reading comprehension skills are almost none existent, let me try to dumb down this reply, so that YOU might possibly understand what I am saying, without the help of an adult.
I didn't make ANY reference to Nagin's racist comments.
Neither did I make any contemptible remarks about the populace of New Orleans.
Nor did I make any comments which could have even had the slightest whiff of racism or bigotry. If you think that ALL poor people are only one race or one religion, then it is YOU who have the problem!
And the last time I looked, it WAS a CONSERVATIVE VALUE to encourage capitalism, self reliance, and keeping the government from being MOMMY.
I heartily suggest that you get someone to explain all of this post, since I fear that you still won't be able to understand it.
I'd be glad to provide you with a link to another site where New Orleans folks are discussing this very thing via freepmail. You just send me a request and you will have one.
I heartily suggest that you get someone to explain all of this post, since I fear that you still won't be able to understand it.
You say more about yourself with that post than I ever could.
And you know it.
New Orleans has been a DEM city for as long as Louisiana has been a state. Huey Long and the rest of the corrupt Louisianian politicos, have not only fostered corruption for well over 150 years, but wouldn't have it any other way. It is Nagin and Blanco and the MSM, including that damnedable metrosexual Shep, on FNC, who have smeared the president and Conservatives as heartless, when if ANYONE has been and still IS heartless, it is and ALWAYS has been the damned Dems, with Nagin and Blanco leading the list, vis-a-vis New Orleans!
And IF folks from NO are talking about how HEARTLESS Conservatives are, on another site, then they are complete idiots; brainwashed, nannytstate loving, shiftless fools, who have a very inaccurate and ill educated idea of what their Fed Gov is responsible for.
Or are you gutless enough to stay over here where you only have to respond to me?
I'd be glad to send you a link in private too. I'd love to see if you are as tough over there as you can pretend to be over here.
Do YOU live in New Orleans?
Right. In other words you are perfectly content to sit over here and spew about things you don't know about to people that don't know enough to contradict you. Pretty brave. Good job of being fair to your fellow Americans.
Do YOU live in New Orleans?
No. But I have at least been enough and know enough of the good folks in New Orleans to know what I am talking about. Even if everything you say is true how does being negative and name calling constitute a productive force for conservative thought?
Answer: It doesn't. The ones that do it are no better and no worse than the childish slime artists that swim around on MoveOn & Democratic Underground sites. You just wear a different color of clothes.
Since you say you didn't name call what are you worried about, right? You only make excuses for the name calling which makes you just as guilty.
You have NO idea what Nagin has been saying, except for the "CHOCOLATE CITY" remark, which you accused me of using on this thread, but which I did not, and have stated, repeatedly that I've called everyone who lives in New Orleans names. Great...go get a remedial, second grade level course in reading comprehension.
Now, you want me to barge into a site for people who live in New Orleans and tell them that their mayor is an idiot? Don't you think that they know that? Oh gee...perhaps they don't.
From what you posted, evidently they are a pack of Huey Long Dems, who hate Conservatives and/or GOPers. Yeah...A CHICKEN IN EVERY POST AND EVERY MAN A KING really did make Louisiana the UTOPIA of America, now didn't it? /sarcasm
Unlike you, I actually DO know what I'm talking about.
Going over to some strange site,e just to stir the pot, doesn't take "guts" and it certainly doesn't take brains. I guess that's WHY you went over there.
Negative? How is stating the facts being "negative"?
And as far as being a Conservative......deary, YOU don't sound like one at all.
Do you?
Is Nagin a lifelong Democrat? Answer: No. He started out as a Republican and then switched to the Democrats. He was voted into office as a conservative Democrat with the support of the business community.
How many Republican Governors has that liberal cesspool of Louisiana had since 1980? Answer: 3 of the last six.
Who ran against Nagin? Answer: Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu and Landrieu family flunky Ron Forman to name two. The simple truth is most people were ticked about the chocolate city stuff but didn't feel there was a better choice offered.
I can't say I've never had the same feeling and I have made it perfectly clear elsewhere I don't like Nagin or even think he is relevant enough to comment on. At this point he is nothing more than a big mouthed weasel trying to keep his job. You propose that makes the whole of the City of New Orleans worthy of scorn. I propose that conservatives forget about slamming him and start talking about what we would do differently and why like adults.
While there is no doubt the City of New Orleans votes Democratic in the elections, you still haven't explained to me why childish name calling and putting down their City is too likely to make many of them even consider listening to Conservative principles. If anything it plays into the Lib baloney that Republicans don't give a damn about New Orleans. Congrats to you for falling right into the trap and being a good little liberal dupe. You do the job well.
From what you posted, evidently they are a pack of Huey Long Dems, who hate Conservatives and/or GOPers.
As usual you don't have a clue. This would be a sports site and not a political site so there are all types. Of course you don't want to know that because it just might blow all of your preconceived notions right out of the water which is basically what you are afraid of.
deary, YOU don't sound like one at all.
and deary - once again you don't know what you are talking about but pretending you do.
Taking cheap shots or making excuses for that after the fact is the primary function of Democrat sleezeballs. I hate to tell you, but you are the one falling firmly on that side of the equation. I'm enough of a conservative and want conservative thought to win enough that I want to set a good example of what conservatives are. I hate to break it to you, but if you and I disagree on this issue, then you disagree with the President too. As usual, I am proud to stand with him.
I'll say it one more time.
State conservative principles and why we believe them.
Show that Conservatives have ideas enough that we don't have to resort to childish name calling like the Dims.
That is how you win people over to your way of thinking, not talking to people like they are pieces of trash just because they don't agree with you.
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