Do you think it is smart that New Orleans is being rebuilt, or should it be abandoned?

Answer 1

I don't think you would be asking this question if you were a resident of New Orleans. You would want to be back in the city where you lived before it was mostly destroyed. New Orleans has a totally unique culture that is different from anywhere else in the world. It would be a shame for it not to be rebuilt. It is a great seaport city. I looked at some of the other answers before I answered for myself and I agree with some but others I disagree totally. The levees are going to be fixed so that this kind of catastrophe can't happen again. All the people that live and work in New Orleans are taxpayers, too. I have visited this city more than once and it was a delight each time. There is no place that has the music, the cuisine, and the people that make the city of New Orleans what it is. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 2

It should be demolished and rebuilt as a national trash bin. The city would take trillions to rebuild and many many years. Plus the other cities and towns that we hit by that hurricane. The place is a wreck. Screw it. New Orleans will never be the same. To many deasesies and the amount of families that will be on welfare are just going to increase. GREAT!

Answer 3

I think the current locations should not be repopulated. I think it is an ignorant waste of taxpayer money, that wouldn't happen if politicians weren't so afraid of "the race card" that gets bandied about. The logical thing would be to only repopulate those areas that didn't get major flooding, like the French Quarter. The port operations could still stand without the entire town being recreated. Of course, this is never going to happen, as politicians are too afraid of offending people than doing the right thing, not only for the former inhabitants, but for the taxpayers who bear this burden.

Answer 4

It should be rebuilt and the levees should be fixed! They should engineer that thing better and make sure another senseless tragedy like this does not happen again.
They should get Habitat for Humanity (in which former pres. Carter is a member of) and destroy all the homes that were damage and barely standing and start from scratch!
Instead of using that money on a senseless war that is going nowhere fast, we could use that money to rebuild that city to its glory and give all those who lost their opportunity to come back again!

Answer 5

I believe that New Orleans should be abandoned because chances are, it will flood again. Another reason is because New Orleans is already below sea level, and there are these water pumps that keep pumping the water back out, if there is a power outage, it would flood.

Answer 6

rebuilding should not fall on the taxpayers.....
I sure do not wanna pay to have it rebuilt only to see it flood again...if not by another hurricane, by the rise of the sea levels due to global warming....
Not a good time to live at or below sea level........

I understand this was their home and there is a lot of sentiment there.... but it is just absolutly foolish to rebuild AT THE SAME LOCATION....
Look at the facts!!! do not be so ignorant as to think you can stop the ocean from flooding it wonce it is rebuilt

Answer 7

abandon it. hurricane seasons fluctuate over centuries from low to high and we are only at the bottom of a high decade. the higher the more storms there are and the more powerful they are.
New Orleans is just going to get flooded again.

Answer 8

We must abandon New Orleans permanently. (We should use the city only for cultural/history and educational purposes)

Answer 9

It is difficult to differentiate New Orleans from a cesspool. Let people live there, if they are that ignorant, but don't allow them to subject animals to such an unhealthy environment.

Answer 10

Perhaps it should have never been built there in the first place, BUT I really think it should be rebuilt.