Why In 4 Year Hasn’t New Orleans Recovered?
But Mississippi, which actually took a direct hit from Katrina is recovered and fine?
Katrina went east of New Orleans and the flooding was because of the levees, that Nagin and Blanco were suppose to fix with Federal Money but used it for other things, were not updated…so i do not feel sorry for New Orleans…they should elect competent, uncorrupted people to run their city…not just because he was Black…because Nagin is an idiot…let New Orleans fend for its self…they don’t call it the Murder Capital of the South for nothing…let it go back to the swamp…
NO MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR NEW ORLEANS RECOVERY! Four years is long enough…
Numbers Quest on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 5:17 pm
New Orleans hasn’t recovered because most of it’s citizens were used to government handouts from birth to death for years and years. It’s been a Democrat stronghold and they are happy with the poverty courtesy of the federal government.
Holbrook on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 5:41 pm
I have to admit I am a bit curious about that also. You never hear about the other parts of the country that were as affected by Katrina as New Orleans but they happened to be smaller and more rural. They seem to have recovered and moved on with some lasting memories but hopes of better times ahead but New Orleans is in constant need of something.
I understand that there was a failure on the part of homeland security when Katrina first happened and that is unforgivable and should be addressed and corrected for future incidents but what does a state who builds a city at or below sea level with little or no protection from the ocean expect to happen… it is a miracle that it has not happened more often.
I agree, no more federal tax dollars, it is a state issue now. New Orleans brings in tons of tourism dollars, it is time to put some of that money to good use and build up the barriers that separate them from the ocean.
Jimbo on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 5:55 pm
No one is in a rush to rebuild a city that sits next to the ocean and is below sea level. No smart person would even consider rebuilding unless the levees were repaired to withstand a category 4 or 5 hurricane.
Pfo on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 6:46 pm
Reasons: Political Correctness and Gov’t Intervention.
I was listening to commentator a few weeks back and he had a pretty good point. If the Empire State Building was built in 400 days, then why haven’t the Twin Towers been rebuilt in 8 yrs?
civil_av on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 7:02 pm
New Orleans has the highest murder capitol in the United States. I wouldn’t expect too much from it.
babablac on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 7:11 pm
yeah that’s kind of odd considering ACORN has their headquarters there but I guess they are organizing other stuff
Lorenzo the Itinerant on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 7:13 pm
Apparently it is Bush’s fault..
Brian on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 7:15 pm
Agreed
Roboron on Thu, 24th Dec 2009 8:07 pm
You really need to do the tiniest bit of research before posting garbage that makes you look really foolish:
1. What Mississippi are you referring to that “is recovered and fine”? It can’t be the one I visit regularly, where most of the coast still looks like Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
2. The levees are a federal responsibility. State and local government are only peripherally involved in the reconstruction of the levee system and do not have access to the funding. The responsible agency is the US Army Corps of Engineers.
The city flooded because the pre-Katrina levees were negligently designed and built by the federal government. Period.
3. Katrina was forecast to go elsewhere until about 2 days before landfall (08/29/05). A state of emergency was declared by Louisiana on August 26th and the City issued the evacuation order on the 27th.
4. Katrina was the worst natural disaster in American history. Most of New Orleans now looks like katrina never happened, but full recovery will take at least a decade (from 2005).
5. New Orleans is important to the USA becasue a signifant percentage of America’s critical national infrastructre is around the city , and much of it has to be there. And no, I am not referring to history, culture, music, the French Quarter or Mardi Gras.
There is a widespread myth that New Orleans is “built below sea level”, but that is not true. Most of the city is above sea level, and the parts below are neighborhoods built on swamps drained in the 20th century (swampland subsides after it is drained).
Realize that nowhere is without risk. NYC and Miami are at more risk from hurricanes than New Orleans. Los Angeles and San Francisco are at risk from earthquakes and fires. Seattle is threatened by volcanoes and Tsunamis. The Midwest is hit by tornadoes every year and floods much more often than New Orleans. However, I don’t hear anyone claiming New York, Florida, California, Kansas/Iowa, or Washington (state) be abandoned, or even not rebuilt after the next disaster.
However, people routinely claim New Orleans should be abandoned, or that we somehow don’t deserve help after Katrina.
Why is that?