What the hell does New Orleans have to do with this. I really wish that damned hurricane had never happened, for one thing, it hurt alot of people I knew, and it gave people who had never been to this part of the world a reason in their own mind to justifying tearing it down to make themselves feel better.
You want to tear down New Orleans, fine, the minute they empty out San Francisco and Los Angeles for earthquake danger, Las Vegas and Phoenix because they could only exist with modern technology, St. Louis and Memphis because they are in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Hawaii and Alaska because of the tsunami risk, Minnesota because of the bitter cold. When you convince people to leave all these places, then by all means, you’ll have a right to ask New Orleans to go away. However, if you’re not willing to see L.A and New York go by the wayside (incidentally, NYC is vulnerable to earthquakes and hurricanes), then don’t begin to talk about New Orleans.
Only in that this city brought into world view the sad state of affairs brought on by the continuation of a dependancy of people on the government. I wasn’t implying to get rid of New Orleans.
I believe I mentioned the word
change
And really any large city has similar concerns.
It would just be nice to see that mind set of a welfare state changed over the next generation.
In other words, instead of trying to change cigarettes in a generation why not try to change something more important to the growth of our entire country.