New Orleans: Looking forward

Gonz

Gonz

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A city is dead. It may be revived with hard work, effort & money. Lots & lots of money. Time is short.

What about a WPA type of program to rebuild? Let those who live there get sustenance & lodging in exchange for effort. Could it happen again?
 
Didn't thap happening with a generation of people that were used to hard work? Are people now as used to the same kind of hard work like they were back then?
 
Two things. It would be cheaper to start new than try to rebuild NO. And there's a growing number of influencial people pushing that NO not be rebuilt below sealevel.
 
I wonder if they qualify for Peace Corps aid now.

It would be funny if someone snuck through a resolution through the UN declaring the ruins of New Orleans to be a world heritage site ruin and forbid it being rebuilt.
 
The problem with relocating/not rebuilding NO is the port facilities. They're a chrome-plated bitch to replicate. You don't just walk away from that type of infrastructure.

With that infrastructure comes jobs, and thus population. They will rebuild it. It will, however, not be the same NO you remember. It may be smaller, and many, if not most, of the city structures, will be new.
 
ermm. I understand that Americans relish hardwork over everything else. European socialist ideas of helping the smaller man may seem odd. Surely helping those who can't help themselves is truly christian. BTW Tony Blair says any help you want you can have, vis a vis no one helping you.
 
HomeLAN said:
...They will rebuild it. It will, however, not be the same NO you remember. It may be smaller, and many, if not most, of the city structures, will be new.
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I've been in New Orleans, I've been on Bourbon Street, I've been to some of the other famous places there. It seems almost incomprehensible to me now to think that this place, this very famous place, where I've once stood, may not be there if I ever go back. Very sad.

In that way it's just like the World Trade Center. I've been there, but they aren't there any more, so I can never go there again.
 
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Is that the real Gonz? The one we all know and love/loathe? Our very own Gonz, ADVOCATING for a huge federal government program of social welfare mimicking the WPA of the FDR era?

Come clean. Who are you, imposter, and wtf have you done with our Gonz?

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It would be ideal if it could be handled privately... but soooo much of this mess incorporates state and federal mandates like the water, sewer, roads, ports... that it has to involve a mass fed mobilization. If this thing is utterly left to the private sector, it will take 10 years of court battles just to get the first brick laid.
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
[SnP checking pulse]

Is that the real Gonz? The one we all know and love/loathe? Our very own Gonz, ADVOCATING for a huge federal government program of social welfare mimicking the WPA of the FDR era?

Come clean. Who are you, imposter, and wtf have you done with our Gonz?

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On one hand we have slackers watching the private sector rebuild all the while they collect benefits & piss & moan about it not being done soon enough.

On the other, we have those same people with blisters, sore backs & a budding work ethic.
 
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