New Orleans is a money pit for the taxpayers--Does anyone think?

Question

that it should be rebuilt?

Billions of Billions have gone to clean it up; and for what? so It can flood again, with the next hurricane; they knew that once those levies broke apart. that this was going to happen; should'nt it just be declared a money pit; and turned into a wildlife santuary; and just drill for some oil?

good comments on a city below the sea level...

You guys are too smart.....

Never in a natural disaster ; such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, were people given debit cards,
free airplane rides.
free relocation
free housing
free food
free medical

Answer 1

I read a statistic that I think sums this up quite well, and showcases how stupid people can be and how easily America is led wherever the media says for us to go.

With all of the money that was given after the storm, they could have written a check for over $120,000.00 To every person displaced by the storm, and that would be before they got anything from insurance for their belongings that were lost. They could have moved elsewhere and started a new life and nearly owned their home free and clear. Instead they want to go back, like that makes some kind of statement about the American Spirit. I think it makes a statement about how idiotic they are. I would have rather been given a check than to move back to that hell hole and live in a freaking fish bowl waiting for the next storm that will do it all again. All the while being goverened by the same idiotic mayor Ray Nagin, that didn't evacuate the city when they SAW THE STORM COMING FOR 4 DAYS !!!! This isn't like 9/11 where it was a surprise attack, this was something that they had been told for 30 years was coming, and then they watched it roll towards them for 4 days and still dd nothing. THe people there got what they deserved if they are dumb enough not to leave when they see that coming, then to RE-ELECT RAY NAGIN after the storm. This does nothing but show exactly how stupid these people are. But if they can get a handout from someone they will. I am so fed up about hearing about this. They were stupid and they got what was coming to them. I say build a bunch of oil wells or turn it into another wildlife preserve like the everglades in Florida. Anything but send all those morons back to the same place to pump out more dumb a$$ idiotic illegitamate kids.

Oh and by the way, let's not forget that Florida was hit by 8 hurricanes in 15 months but nobody donated hundreds of billions of dollars to Florida. A couple weeks after Katrina, Texas was hit by Hurricane Rita, which was also up to 175 mile per hour winds... you don't hear them crying do you? No, and you know why, because the type of people that live in New Orleans for the most part, are the type of people who will take a handout whenever they can, rather than have to work for anything. I say bulldoze the whole damn city, and fill in the fish bowl with the rubble.

One last thing, they chose to live behind levee's designed to withstand a class 3 hurricane. When they saw a 5 coming, they should have left. Rebuild that sesspool of a city? Why, so we can have rampant crime again? So we can go to Mardi Gras? Is Mardi Gras worth hundreds of bIllions of dollars? People want to talk about the 9/11 commission and how the government failed to protect us from a SURPRISE ATTACK THAT NOBODY HAD EVER IMAGINED WOULD HAPPENon 9/11, but ray Nagin and the govenor of Louisiana don't deserve to be ridiculed when they failed to order an evacuation when they saw the damn thing coming for 4 damn days. I am so fed up with this crap. Get over it people.

Answer 2

Don't beat me up, yeah it was sad what happened.

With that said, geological changes have been going on for an awful long time. It was inevitable that this was going to happen. I can see why they built there before knowing better, but hopefully they have learned a lesson by now. What kind of a bubblehead builds a city next to the ocean UNDER sea level?

There is a river near me where people live on the floodplain. Year after year they seem shocked when the inevitable flood comes. "We love our home and will never move!" If it were me, I'd learn and move out. Just don't ask me for help when it happens again moron.

Answer 3

Parts of New Orleans have existed since well before the U.S. was a country. That rich culture and history is something that needs to be preserved rather than steamrolled over for the next mini-mall or oil drilling. People that live there have done so for generations and have ties to that community that most of us will never understand or have with where we live. I'm more than willing to send a few tax dollars of mine to rebuild something like that. Besides, we were the ones that didn't want to pay for the proper upkeep of the levy system in the first place. Haven't New Orleaneans paid enough for that mistake?

Answer 4

It definitely is a money pit. While I feel sorry for everyone, I am tired of the "victims" blaming George Bush for their problems. We have given them a lot. Some of those people are better off than they were before the storm. But, they keep their hands out. I live in Northern California. We are constantly being told that we will have to survive on our own for a few days before help can get to us. Earthquakes arent predictable, hurricanes are!!! The bottom line...be prepared. Be self- reliant. But self-reliance must not be part of the culture and mindset of New Orleans.

With a mayor like Ray Nagin...you get what you pay for!!!

Answer 5

The numbers are frightening. everyone that prints money for long will set off off hyper-inflation, including that considered in Zimbabwe, Hungary or Germany. we've have been given addicted to paying for issues on credit, and that i'm afraid Joe Public is much greater at fault than Gordon Brown right here. What grow to be in our heads as quickly as we borrowed as much as ten circumstances our annual earnings to get on the valuables ladder, and interior the bankers' heads that enable it ensue? Even now, I see interior the food market fat piggy common those with their trolleys filled to the brim eating as though there have been no the next day. all of them prefer to stay like celebrities, inspite of no be counted if or no longer they or the country can take care of to pay for this. And those fat piggy common people choose Governments who're only following their occasion. And the respond we are advised is to drop fees of interest to inspire greater such spending, and to shrink taxes to do likewise. insanity. i grow to be passing by using Birmingham New highway Station the different day. that's a countrywide shame and desires urgently to be pulled down and adjusted with some thing that a minimum of would not deliver shame to our 2nd city. yet what? A grandiose multi-billion pound status undertaking which will little question look very stylish and be sure administrators and specialists a lot of money in bonuses... yet i'm able to't help thinking we could make some thing suited, joyous to commute into, totally clever and with means for growth without spending particularly lots on type.

Answer 6

Are you going to ask this again when Miami or New York City get hit with a Category 4 hurricane? How about when the Big One hits Los Angeles?

Answer 7

I agree. Anyone who builds a house below sea level, with the sea a mile away, needs to be drowned so that their stupidity gets removed from the gene pool.

Answer 8

After New Orleans people were ignorant enoughto re-elect Ray Nagin, they deserve whatever happens to them!

Answer 9

I think that question would be better answered for the people's who have homes there and their family has spent generations there. Where would our country's tourism business be without landmarks and famous places? I think that New Orleans has too much history and culture to just be wiped off the map.

Answer 10

I agree with you on a theoretical level, but i can't say that we shouldnt rebuild it becuase the thought of losing my own home devastates me. Its stupid that New Orleans is where it is, but its stil ltheir home. Would you move away from your home just like that if it suddenly developed into a major hurricane zone?