Posted on 09/01/2005 2:22:16 PM PDT by zencat
It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.
"It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed," the Illinois Republican said in an interview Wednesday with The Daily Herald of Arlington, Ill.
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What is the cubic yard capacity of that?
Maybe a smaller levee system around the downtown and FQ, while building up the other areas. Lessons from Holland. Redundancy in the pumping systems (i.e. overkill). New Orleans may never be the same, but it will remain and perhaps even flourish more than in the past.
No, it's not. With every video clip we see of mutants looting in New Orleans, and with every report we hear of helicopter and boat rescue operations shut down due to gunfire from these mutants, more and more Americans are going to realize that having the U.S. government rebuild New Orleans would be worse than having a white farmer buy a grain farm in Zimbabwe.
If this chaos and mayhem continues for another 24 hours, public sentiment for rebuilding New Orleans will be nonexistent. In fact, a majority of Americans outside Louisiana will probably be in favor of bulldozing the city to the ground with any remaining occupants still in it.
your comments are what he should have said, not tossing around the word "bulldoze" it.
What a stupid place to put a town.
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Assume you were to rebuild somewhere further inland, above sea level, how do you determine who owns what??
redundancy good. ;)
Aren't the many residents of suburban NO already living there??
A few million cubic yards of gravel will quiet the riot considerably.
I have to say that the French Quarter was lamer than I thought it would be.
Certain parts of it were quaint and picturesque, but about two-thirds of it were dedicated to selling low-quality Chinese-made trinkets available in pretty much every other city, or to selling massive amounts of identical-tasting Hurricane cocktails or to homo garbage.
I remember wondering, why are there not twice as many restaurants here? The existing ones are so good and the lines are so long - surely an original new venue would be more lucrative than a t-shirt shop!
I assumed the bribery cost of setting up a real business was prohibitive.
While I am personally not in favor of rebuilding much of NO without consideration of better alternatives for the city and its people, there were certainly more sensitive ways to voice this. I doubt Hastert needed to discuss the subject at all at this time. Professional politicians should know better than to wield words like a baseball bat during a period of crisis.
"What a stupid place to put a town."
The French put it there. What more can I say?
Ah-oh. Time for Kansas to develop a sane and ration immigration policy, put up a defensible barrier to protect it's borders, train and deploy a security force...
Just think about how ludicrous that is . . . a freaking gambling racket that can't make a profit.
If Bob Livingston did not have his zipper problem after Gingrich stepped down... and was Speaker of the House right now... we'd be looking at a 100 billion + rebuilding project ... I'm sure Denny Hastert will come around after some Chicago construction firms are promised a piece of the action.
Actually an excellent question. Those that have clear title on record would be all set.
He's got a point (unpopular though it will be in some quarters). Especially in areas that were *completely* destroyed (necessitating building from scratch anyway) or that have little or no historical significance, the re-building should either be (a) relocated to an area which is above sea level, or (b) built on top of several feet of fill, bringing it up to or above sea level.
Perhaps the fill idea (b) is impractical since the ground below is so saturated, I don't know. But building in exactly the same places at the same level is just asking for another disaster, whether it's in ten years or fifty.
there was a big fire and issues with chicago river. NO feds funds for that stuff.
I just think we some balance, we were bailed out here in NYC, which could rightly be called a terrorist zone.
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