I asked a similar question before but thought I would clarify. I am not asking why they haven't rebuilt yet. My mother lost her home to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 so I know it takes a couple years.
I am asking... with all the funds that have been donated, why is the water and electricity situation STILL NOT fixed enough for these ppl to EVEN return to their homes to even begin to rebuild.
Seriously. Some still can't even go to their homes and begin the process.
Should that not have been a priority with the funds?
2006-08-17 19:04:57 · 11 answers · asked by BeachBum 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Some areas have been tacitly written off. Public utilities are unwilling to make the investment necessary to supply homes in areas that may not be profitable for them in the future, and the new deregulated atmosphere makes it difficult for the state to make them do it. People in other areas would find their rates going up to pay for it in any case.
The real problem with New Orleans is shared with coastal areas everywhere: the Government is stuck with some or most of the weather and tidal risk. People love to live on or near the water, but they don't pay the real cost: and in this low-tax environment and with federal deficits climbing and more and more expenses foisted upon states and counties, and insurance companies refusing cover, the reality is becoming apparent.
Living below sea level has a cost: ask the Dutch. Politically nobody has done more than mention hesitantly the cost in New Orleans. To discuss it is to open yourself up to charges of racism, etc.
2006-08-17 19:13:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If she lost her home to Floyd, then she lives close to me.
The reason people have not returned home yet is because they are LAZY. The money is there to rebuild, but they don't want to have to actually do anything. Prime example. My church sent three pick up truck loads of bottled water, canned food and cleaning supplies to one of the rural areas. When they arrived at a community center to drop off the supplies, no one at the center/shelter would help them unload the trucks. They stood & watched, told them where to put things, but they didn't help. We sent truck loads to other areas and saw alot of the same thing.
You better believe, though, that as elections draw closer the spotlight will once again shine on poor, pitiful New Orleans, still not rebuilt yet and it's all W's fault. Never mind that it's really a LOCAL issue.
2006-08-18 00:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by kelly24592 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 07:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by zufelt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the gov't gets done with the once depressed areas of New Orleans, it's gonna be like Atlantis. So beautiful and expensive, the people that used to live there will never be able to return. Unless they hit a serious lottery. One day they will tell the story to their children and grand and great grand children about the storm and how they're originally from N.O. but couldn't return and that's how they came to be from the various states. Sad.
2006-08-18 09:19:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this is working very well for them."
-Barbra Bush
the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
2006-08-17 19:17:09 · answer #5 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bush Administration is STUPID!
Thye have all the resources available but are being asses and don't want to do anything.
I believeKanye West was SOOOPER CORRECT!
George Bush doesn't like black ppl.
2006-08-17 19:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by felicityrocks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you are right No.1 priority
shared with the safety factor
2006-08-17 19:08:49 · answer #7 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It take time to get rid of the mold and repair the houses to livable it will never end as fast as it started
2006-08-17 19:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by robertemorehead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are using funds for other uses.
2006-08-17 19:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the no one knows what they're doing right now.FEMA is stupid and the government
isn't helping the way they should.Everything is still a mess and it shouldn't be.
2006-08-17 19:09:33 · answer #10 · answered by jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋