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Fired New Orleans city workers get final paychecks - Nagin, Blanco stunned (non Miers thread)
Yahoo News ^ | 10/14/05

Posted on 10/14/2005 5:47:47 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

Ninth ward is a part of NO, it is full of poor people but has these old shotgun houses, actually quite beautiful with original glass doorknobs,etc. It is part of the city. It was the scene of a Jim Jarmusch movie, Below the Law, written for Tom Waits. Tom actually was in the movie and it captured the atmosphere. It has a seedy quality, the kind you see in some big cities. It is gone now, the houses are just ruined, beyond repair I think.


41 posted on 10/14/2005 6:32:48 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Nathan Jr.

There are enough conservatives and Republicans in Louisiana that they should have jumped all over Nagin, Blanco and Mary Landrieu, but your Republican congressmen and senators put their skirts on and acted like the whimps they are!!! I'm not paying one cent of my taxes because you folks in Louisiana don't get rid of the vermin you elected to run the state and NO!!! You choose to wallow with low life, then live like low life!!! End of story!!!


42 posted on 10/14/2005 6:33:33 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: kublia khan

well, wouldn't you say it is remarkable that a city is mostly destroyed? I mean, govt doesn't shrink but when a city is sort of closed down, what choice is there. There is no money coming in. NO is bankrupt for all practical purposes.


43 posted on 10/14/2005 6:34:38 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Nathan Jr.

well, I guess you are insulted too.

Where do these people come from?


44 posted on 10/14/2005 6:36:49 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

That's just peachy by me. But.....I can assure you NO will not come back if your present leadership is allowed to stand. Fighting and arguing with me does you zilch!! You need to spend your energy in getting rid of the Democrat vermin that is destroying the great state of Louisiana!!!


45 posted on 10/14/2005 6:36:56 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Once again, let me remind you - not everyone in this state supports the Democratic party! And yes, I know the real New Orleans. I know it was NOT a pretty place - I lived there for 8 years before moving to the north shore. I would love to go back, if that city is ever reborn clean and safe. That's what I hope for! That's what we all hope for. Now let's have a REAL discussion about how to bring that city back to life...


46 posted on 10/14/2005 6:37:36 PM PDT by Nathan Jr.
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Your personal attacks and insults do not serve you well. I suggest you lay off.

Democratic vermin did not destroy NO. Nature did.


47 posted on 10/14/2005 6:39:09 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl
Thank you for the information. My youngest brother went to Tulane for a year back in the 70's. I went to visit during spring break. Had a great time, I stayed at the St. Charles in the biggest room I had ever seen. Great food, wonderful folks, beautiful scenery. I always promised myself I would get back some day. How I wish I could.
48 posted on 10/14/2005 6:40:40 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
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To: Nathan Jr.

I have been intrigued lately by comments of people from NO living here. They all say there is no room for poor people, I assume they mean non workers, in the city. The housing is going to be needed by the rebuilders. Apparently talk of the housing projects, Iberville in particular, being useed for housing for workers.

It is interesting, and I am growing more pessimistic that NO can climb out. Jeff parish is okay I do believe as is uptown. But where will the workers be, the ones who sling burgers, mop floors etc. I hear the pay offers are incredible for just working at a burger king.

It seems to me to be an incredible chance to rebuilt a really wonderful city and do it right. I don't know if it will lhappen. But I wish the hurricane people would all go someplace, the traffic here is terrible.


49 posted on 10/14/2005 6:43:18 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

Not in Naurlins


50 posted on 10/14/2005 6:44:34 PM PDT by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! I would rather visit Rwanda on a bad day than France on a good day.)
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To: Libloather

Obviously they were not needed in the first place.


51 posted on 10/14/2005 6:45:01 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Never forget Terri Schindler)
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To: Libloather

Ray Nagin should have been the first to go.The unfair part is there are people who have lived there all their lives who have worked and supported families lost homes, and now have to lose even more, their jobs.


52 posted on 10/14/2005 6:46:16 PM PDT by WasDougsLamb (Just my opinion.Go easy on me........)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

I spent my wedding night at the old Roosevelt Hotel in NO. And I went to school there for five years. Lived on Canal Street beyond Claiborne and rode the streetcar down canal every day. Then they took the streetcars away from Canal,,I mourned that. I loved those cars.

It is a beguiling city, full of wonderful people and charm and music and food. And also dangerous like many big cities. I think it was more dangerous because it was so beguiling.


53 posted on 10/14/2005 6:47:12 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl
So doesn't it make since that they would release a portion of their staff any prudent business man would.
54 posted on 10/14/2005 6:47:45 PM PDT by kublia khan (Absolute war brings total victory)
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To: cajungirl

Don't pay them any mind cajungirl. People who have not been down there have no concept of what it's really like and how many really fine people there are in that part of the country.


55 posted on 10/14/2005 6:48:10 PM PDT by McGavin999 (We're a First World Country with a Third World Press (Except for Hume & Garrett ))
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To: kublia khan

Of course. The city has no money, most things are closed. They had to lay them off. And I think it hasn't even started, the economic impact on the entire state. The state has a hiring freeze as does the Universities. I think it is touch and go if some institutions will make it back. Tulane is in trouble. The medical schools are relocated and trying to stay open on a wing and a prayer. The Dental School is in BR limping along.

I don't ever rejoice when working people lose jobs. Even government workers. There but for the grace of God go I


56 posted on 10/14/2005 6:51:26 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Libloather
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has urged President George W. Bush to modify federal rules to allow federal aid to pay the wages of local government employees in communities whose tax bases have been wiped out by the storms.

Why doesn't the governor just ask bush to annex NO as Washington DC south

57 posted on 10/14/2005 6:52:53 PM PDT by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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To: Nathan Jr.

I'm all for a real discussion to bring your NO back to life. Here's some starters. The city needs to immmediately vitalize three sectors, tourism, the oil industry and shipping. All this social BS will do nothing. NO must become a powerful economic engine and fast. Only proactive, efficient, honest, aggressive business folks can make that happen. The politicians, Republican, Democrat and Black leaders are absolutely useless. Once the economic engine starts, the folks and the jobs will materialize. The city must demographically change. It cannot function effectively as poverty central, which NO Black leadership in concert with the Democrat Party have put in place. The keep 'em chained in the welfare state mantra is not healthy for the folks and the city. Some of these poor folks that have migrated into Texas and other states can't read or write, except at very basic levels. And... they cannot communicate effectively or become effective in the general work force. My point is: A whole "new' approach is necessary, and it will be quite an undertaking. So, when these Louisiana folks lament at my ranting, rest assured, I only do it to bring forward the very difficult task at hand for the citizens of Louisiana and New Orleans. Objectively, Mary Landrieu, Kathleen Blanco, Mayor Nagin, William Jefferson ain't gonna cut the mustard, no way!!!


58 posted on 10/14/2005 6:52:56 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: upchuck
"Bush has responded by saying the burden of rebuilding should fall to the private sector."

I believe that as well. And the private sector will make this city strong in its renewal. For a period of time preceeding the storm, several newer industries were beginning to make headway in New Orleans - the film industry (they called it "Hollywood South") was employing thousands of locals, and the medical research and medical equipment manufacturers had big plans to expand in the city. Things were truly looking up. Sigh...What could have been...
59 posted on 10/14/2005 6:54:57 PM PDT by Nathan Jr.
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To: McGavin999

People who aren't here simply cannot comprehend what is going on. My daughter just visited and she had heard me talking, when I could, about it. She was stunned. Every place we went, people told her their stories. We went to a story hour at the bookstore for her Baby and the lady sitting next to her had lost everything and was staying with relatives here. She cried telling my daughter her story. We went to get our hair cut and the hairdresser told her all about her sister and brother in law and their losses.

We are drowning in sadness, loss and dislocation here. There is more loss than I can absorb. Yesterday my secretary went down to her sisters house in No, it was molded, the roof had collapsed and it was all in ruins. They were there all day and they got back with two rosaries, both had belonged to their grandmothers. She cried telling me about it but said she was so happy, that was all they wanted to get.

My hurricane refuges who stayed here for a month lost everything, wedding albums, furniture, a lifetime of scrimping to get furniture, keepsakes. Their kids are in a new school, they don't even know where their friends are. And entire family just stunned. The husband's business is in ruins, he cannot find his clients, the wife's job gone.

I hear this everyday,,it is beyond horrible.

So I have little patience for the hubris, the hatefulness, the lack of any heart of some people.


60 posted on 10/14/2005 6:57:41 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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