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Why fix the city? Because these vermin are not "the city." They are from the slums of the city--and I might add, all cities have slums, and the types of people now running amuck in New Orleans. Just be thankful YOU haven't had a disaster, else you'd be fighting YOUR version of this outrage. Then, just to top things off, you'd have to be fighting idiots like people on Free Republic who (a) insist the looting should be allowed since they are "suffering" and (b) want to bulldoze the city down because of the very few who are rotten to the core.

NO is an exception for reconstruction. The city should not be rebuilt simpky because it is foolish to build a city below sea level. And it won't be rebuilt while these thugs are running the streets. No one tried to preserve law and order before hand and no one is trying to do that now. They are shooting at the rescuers. No one is trying to stop it. Not the local residents, not the police and the National Guard isn't even in there yet.

I'm in FL and I have had to evacuate because of storms. What is going on in NO is a prime example of why you need to get out. I was worried what would happen to my home and if I'd even have a job because where I work is right on the water. The storms are only a part of the problem. It's surviving the aftermath. You must be prepared as best you can. After a storm, you must assume no one will be there to help you and that's exactly what's happening in NO.