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2009-02-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Guard to pull out of New Orleans after 3 1/2 years
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Posted by tu3031 2009-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 They should never have rebuilt it. Those parts of NO were a shit-hole anyway, a warren of generations of poverty and laziness and government dependency.

They should have just bulldozed some of those wards, then opened the levees to reflood the wetlands, and use the rebuild money to build new neighborhoods on the higher ground to the N, with proper hurricane proofed structures, a better city layout, proper policing, and mass transit into the city for jobs.
Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-28 00:55||   2009-02-28 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if they didn't re-flood them, bulldoze those sunken neighborhoods and turn them into parks, etc. Put some green space in there. The rest done as you say.
Posted by Steve White 2009-02-28 01:23||   2009-02-28 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 And kill every 3rd person in Colorodo to protect what ever shitass thing I don't like about Denver.

Yeah, I know..... we all hate it, so it's okay.
Posted by .5MT 2009-02-28 01:27|| www.ninme.com]">[www.ninme.com]  2009-02-28 01:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Ever notice how everyones a damn expert about New Orleans?
Posted by .5MT 2009-02-28 01:28|| www.ninme.com]">[www.ninme.com]  2009-02-28 01:28|| Front Page Top

#5 ..maybe because, in the end, we all ended up paying for it. It's the standard operating procedure now for government to ignore the warnings and when the problem blows up on them, it's expected everyone else has to bail them out. Then they turn around and repeat the same stupid behavior again. Since we can't stop it, we just bitch.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-28 07:36||   2009-02-28 07:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Shortly after Katrina a number of planners and politicians advocated something very similar to Old Spook's proposal. It would have cost far less to rebuild, to protect in the future, and to rebuild again in the future when that protection fails. But people felt they had a RIGHT to go home and demagogic politicians fanned flames of racism around the issue, and of course governments at all levels saw it as a way to get their hands on a bigger pot of money to play with, so ..... here we are. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it - hold on to your wallet, if there's anything left in it.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2009-02-28 10:27||   2009-02-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 "We don't have enough cops…”

No…you have too many bad guys, corrupt government officials, and race baiting activists.
Posted by DepotGuy 2009-02-28 10:45||   2009-02-28 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Some things are pretty obvious, .5MT ...
Posted by Steve White 2009-02-28 11:39||   2009-02-28 11:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a map of the New Orleans levee system showing where the Katrina breaches occurred and where the flooding occurred. Which levees would you breach? Which areas of the city would "reflood"?
Posted by Matt 2009-02-28 12:04||   2009-02-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd have shortened the effective levee lengths by shifting pumping to the mouths of the canals, which is sort of what they have done.
I'd have concentrated on rebuilding upriver of the Industrial Canal, and on strenghthening the protections of those areas. I would have sacrificed New Orleans East and St. Bernard (& Lower 9th Ward) and offered buyouts for all those properties instead of spending money rebuilding (and I'd have tended to base the buyout offers on their tax assessment valuation.)
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2009-02-28 15:26||   2009-02-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

#11 I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Posted by Sgt. Hicks 2009-02-28 16:39||   2009-02-28 16:39|| Front Page Top

#12 .5mt you are fucking stupid with that remark - or else you forgot to switch to one of your other sockpuppet names you asshole.

Who said anything about killing peopel, you drooling jerk? I advocated simply letting a horribly damaged area be cleard and relocate the people *with aid* to a better place with better homes. And you, like the room temperature IQ you are, decided to equate that with decimation? How stupid ARE you to think that can slip by?

Did you ever consider I did missionary work there in the 9th ward, so I *KNOW* the area, personally?

Did you ever consider I have friend in the Guard who told me how it was post-Katrina down there?

By God, that part of New Orleans is as bad as some parts of Haiti I saw in the Army, and thats BEFORE the hurricane.

And its not just me - my younger brother was there as well for missionary work for a lot longer.

So .5IQ, you wanna apologize for being a shit-for-brains and restract that bullshit of yours?
Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-28 16:39||   2009-02-28 16:39|| Front Page Top

#13 i agree with old spook it was a shit hole and i called what would happen after Katrina, they migrated too such places as atlanta and continiued what they do best. sell crack and commit crimes
Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-28 16:59||   2009-02-28 16:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Surprisingly enough, a fairly large percentage of the former residents of New Orleans don't plan to go home. I don't know if it's 25% or 30%, but those numbers are very close. That includes a LOT of people that relocated to Denver, Omaha, NE, Saint Louis, MO, Tulsa, OK, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, and even some that moved as far away (more climate-wise than distance) to El Paso, Texas.

I've been to New Orleans many times. The school sponsored trips down there to see the port, the zoo (which was first-rate 45 years ago - don't know what it's like now), Tulane University, and other sites. That's where the MEPS station was when I first enlisted in the Air Force. A friend of mine's father founded the New Orleans Baptist Seminary there, and I visited several times. I shipped a car from New Orleans to Germany. I've never lived there, but New Orleans was a typical big city, with big-city crime problems, made worse by being the third largest port area in the US, and having a history of rampant corruption. It hasn't changed just because a hurricane destroyed half of it.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2009-02-28 18:08|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2009-02-28 18:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Old Patriot, the zoo is great, and considerably better than it ever was 45 years ago (can't say it's quite back to pre-Katrina, but it wasn't really damaged much, so any minimal decline would likely be due to volunteer & funding limits.)

And yes, a lot of New Orleanians left for good. Unfortunately for New Orleans I think they were disproportionately the more desirable residents. But too many good jobs left, so the good workers had to leave too.
Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore  2009-02-28 19:55||   2009-02-28 19:55|| Front Page Top

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