why do you think it is taking so long to rebuild New Orleans?

Answer 1

There are a lot of reasons, but let me try to list some:
1) the city is below sea level, so it is a huge challenge to get it dry. The soil is saturated and that makes every effort a hundred times harder.
2) The money involved is staggering.
3) Government inefficiency, though perhaps no organization could deal effectively with such a huge task.
4) Corruption and fraud, as some people use the situation to their personal advantage.
5) The war in Iraq splits attention and resources.

I do not think it is a government conspiracy to keep New Orleans down, due to race or politics. The above reasons are enough to explain the troubles without adding conspiracy theory.

Answer 2

There are several factors going on-

First of all the waiting list for permits is very long. Their government has not grown any larger, however, everyone in the city needs a permit and they are all trying to get them at the same time. They tried to divide the city into sections so that they could set up some sort of staggered system for obtaining permits to alleviate congestion. But because everyone was displaced and nobody had a phone or internet access, nobody knew when they were supposed to apply for their permits.

Secondly, its economic- The goverment is requiring everyone to elevate their house at least 3 to 5 feet before they can rebuild. The cost of elevating the house is almost as much as the house is worth and many of the residents figure that they would make out ahead of the game if they just let the house go.

Third- There are no stores, no hospitals, no schools, and no government services thus making the living conditions unsafe. Being that there are no police or fire departments present, nobody wants to come back to the city until those essential things are in place.

Answer 3

I think it is taking so long because of the level of devastation and because many in the area are poor. To blame it on the government is really kind of the easy way out. The fact is, as was stated numerous times here, that it's a city-a large one-and it's not going to rise again overnight. Also, the new guidelines are rather stringent. And the mayor's statement about the city being a "chocolate city" didn't help matters in the least. The statement smacked of racism, don't you think?

Keep in mind, as well, that the best people to help rebuild will not be the ones the government sends. The best hope will be for the residents to do it themselves. If they do, they will value their city that much more, perhaps they will show more pride, and the city can prosper that much more once it is back to normal...or as normal as that city ever was!

Answer 4

New Orleans

Why is the Federal government protecting the people of New Orleans investments? Sure the levees broke, and sure a Federal government agency built them, but why do New Orleanais’s have so much faith in the Federal government in the first place? To place one of my largest investment on a below sea-level elevation protected by Uncle Sam’s Levees seems insane. Would you let the Federal government protect your investments if you had a choice? Look what they did to Your Social Security! What ever happened to personal responsibility and taking ownership for your actions? Did New Orleanais’s not know they were taking a huge risk just by living there? And, if they didn’t know then is ignorance a viable excuse? It doesn’t work in the court of law, does it?

Today’s society seems to always want to find someone else to blame. They don’t blame Katrina, for there is no money in that. They blame the Government for building the levees that broke and demand compensation for their own poor decisions for investing in property below sea-level and trusting the Federal Government for levee protection. The Government did not break the levees, Katrina did, so if you had properly insured your high risk investment you will be just fine, for if you didn’t, then you took the risk and you lost. It should not be the Government’s responsibility to insure your high risk investments.

The biggest question remaining is; are you rebuilding? Do you trust the Government enough for levee protection to put one of your largest investments behind one of their levees? Insane.

Answer 5

because all the sorryasses left and wont come back to help rebuild it they were so used to getting their hand outs with out having to do a dam thing and u think they are going to go back and help rebuild don't think so all they won.t to do is blame the government and holler wheres my check and color don.t have nothing to do with it because the mayor is black and the Governor is white so it must be on account of the lazy shiftless people that lived their if they can.t get something for nothing they dam sho aint gonna work for it so blame those that hauled butt and ain.t come back to help rebuild AND THATS THE TRUTH

Answer 6

Well, because it's a freaking CITY, one of the 50 largest in the USA, and it's taken almost 300 years to grow into its size, and as so much of it was undone in one fell swoop, I don't expect it would take a few weeks to bring back. Rome wasn't built in a day, remember.

Answer 7

because its a city. Try building a city in 2 years. Not that easy. it aint no lego sh!t. HEY YOU GUYS WANNA HEAR SOMETHING FUNNY?!?!?!?! OKAY HERE IT IS:
Looks like the new orleans before the hurricane should become old orleans, because it aint new no mo.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Man i crack my dman self up.

Like Kanye West said:
Bush hates black people.

Like I say:
Once you go black you never going back.

Answer 8

Because it is a freakin' swamp and it is sinking into the delta. It took hundreds of years to get it where it was before the hurricane, it isn't going to be rebuilt in a year. Parts of it shouldn't be rebuilt, and that is the tough part: deciding how to decide.

Answer 9

OMG some of you people are just pig headed. It was devistated you can not just snap your fingers and make everything alright.. My god what delutions do you have? It will take years for it get cleaned up and millions of dollars.

Answer 10

The governmental lack of care. They dropped the ball Big-time on this!!