What is your opinion about New Orleans?

Question

Well I will tell you mine I know off hand everything about New Orleans I was born and raised there. My ancestors came there from France and Spain so I guess you can say my background is from there too. Im sure most people don't understand the devastation there. It's very hard to explain, unless you have seen it off hand what happened. I sure do think it should be rebuilt, but it's not that easy. President Bush should be donating money and helping the government rebuild New Orleans he is so caught up in the Middle East he isn't taking care of his own country. So my question is what is your opinion about New Orleans do you think it should be rebuilt, what do you picture New Orleans as is you have never been, also if you are reading this and know or live in the gulf coast states that were effective where do you live particularly in New Orleans or Mississippi?

Answer 1

It’s famous for it southern hospitality, good music. What shocks me when New Orleans had the disaster was President Bush just flew around on a plane looking at it. He didn’t even bother to land, and meet the ordinary people who where victims of the disaster. I just hope when he running again for election that the good People of New Orleans remember this, when he looking for their votes.

Answer 2

I think it was a tragedy, what happened. I DO NOT beleive it is the Presidents fault that it has not been rebuilt or anything else. The blame can be placed in many hands, like Mayor Nagen for example for not using the buses, or on some of the people themselves for not getting out, and dont tell me that there was no way out, because homeless people in this country have shoes, and if you have shoes, then you can walk. The only people that can complain about not getting out are people in nursing homes, or the disabled, the ones that cant help themselves.
I beleive that there was alot of poverty there, and now the people that were a part of that are all over the country doing the same kind of things that they were doing at home.
I do not beleive it should be rebuilt, I beleive it should be leveld and start over, or not have a city that will flood again. If you lived there (all that did) should have known that they could be underwater, there were so many predictions that this would happen, but you, they, stayed and this is a result of that. If I live in an area that could be flooded by a huricane, then I will have it properly funded with insurance, or I would leave that area.

Any, yes the president is taking care of our country. When is the last time we have been attacked by terrorists since 9/11? We havent. He is doing a good job of taking care of our country.

And by the way I have family that live just outside of New Orleans, and have first hand knowledge of whats up there, before and after the flooding, because I know your going to ask.

Answer 3

My impression is that the federal government has poured money into the rebuilding and even before the storms to fix the seawalls, but the mayor (Nagin?) and the La. Governor (Blanco?) would not spend the money on the city and the wall and the two do not even talk to each other today. When Bush tried to bring the two together, Nagin cowered in the bathroom of Air Force One and would not come out.

My opinion is that N.O should be razed to the ground and then rebuilt so it is above sealevel this time (lots of landfill) and can weather the storms much better. The seawalls need to built higher and stronger to withstand more powerful storms in the future. Right now property ownership for long-term purposes is very risky. The current leadership is throwing the past right out the window by spending federal money to rebuild N.O. the way it was.

N.O. also needs new leadership. The storms proved that government corruption was city-wide. Nagin could not activate his police force to prevent looting. And is not Nagin still in charge??? FEMA brought up the lack of any evacuation plans while making suggestions (like moving the buses and stores of food to a location above sealevel), and Nagin still has no disaster-contingency plans if another storm moves in.

Answer 4

What happened there is hard bad, espcially since it was a First world country it happened to. I saw it all on tv, glued to it and was sad and angry that it was happeening. It turned into a human issue to a race issue, when all you saw were black ppl. On one hand i want your hometown to be rebuilt but at the same time, something should be done about about the levy system. If rebuilding is that it needs then your govt should make sure when a storm that size happens again, the devastation should be minimized and the response should be far quicker. A few days before it happened, the Discovery channel ran a documentary on what would and could happen, and all the scenarios were bad. I am just suprised no one did anything when they knew how bad it would be. It was complacent attitude that killed so many when it could have been easily avoided or atleast given ample warning to prepare. I wasn't there nor have i ever visited it, but always wanted to. So one day , hopefully i will or can.
The news media seem to have forgoten about it, and also Pres Bush seemed to have forgoten about it and yes I agree with you when you said he and they should donate and do something more concrete about the situation then letting it slip out of the collective mind.

Answer 5

Well, Diamond, you asked an interesting question. The initial feelings of people all over the United States was to come to the aid of the victims of the storm that ravaged New Orleans. When it became obvious that many of the people who required rescue had not left their homes because they thought they could tough it out, or because they were afraid to leave their homes because the crime rate in the city was so outrageous that they were afraid to abandon their homes for fear they would be robbed, people began to question what happened there. The people of New Orleans and their local govenment and state govenment made a bad situation much worse that it had to be, and there seems to be no end to the demand for help from the rest of the country. The country is only too happy to provide necessary assistance, but the amount of fraud and stupidity and out and out greed has been a bit of a shock.

Perhaps there is an untold story that is not being told to the rest of the country about how the people of New Orleans are pitching in to rebuild the city and help themselves and their neighbors. We have seen the people of St. Louis do that after floods, and the people of other areas do that after catastrophies. So far, the circumstances in New Orleans are pretty sad. They seem to be blaming everyone but themselves and not doing much to solve their own problems. The rest of the country has poured tons of money into the city, but have not seen the results they expected.

Answer 6

New Orleans is one of my favorite cities. I go there once a year. In fact Im going there in April for the festival. I think it should be rebuilt, and will eventually be the great place it was. A ton of history and culture in that city. I dont go to just party, even though that is always great. I enjoy viewing the history, Battlefield, Cemeteries, Plantation homes, the weather, and the incredible architecture. I live in St Louis, and I'll tell ya.....We have nothing on your city even after your disaster. :) have a great day

Answer 7

i do not see a reason this kind of large number of billions of our tax money might want to bypass to rebuild new Orleans, at the same time as the same element ought to take position each and every time back with not some thing preventing it, its a city decrease than sea factor with wall to save the water out, heck in case your gonna say we ought to continually rebuild it, then you extremely may besides positioned up some levees someplace interior the midst of the sea and talk to it a city, and take a verify out to save the water out at the same time as a hurricane hits. why do human beings seem to continually favor to stay crammed into massive cities and then at the same time as some thing occurs to them they ***** and moan that we ought to continually all help them, there is a large number of room available to construct houses faraway from volatile elements and that is the position we ought to continually construct our cities, not on the damn ocean.

Answer 8

I don't care for it. I never have. Every time I've been there it involved going to the V.A. hospital and the few natives I talked with on the streets asking for directions were just plain rude. So much for the "FAMOUS" southern hospitality

Answer 9

I think the president's in-action says it all!!

Mr Happy
:o)

Answer 10

Its really beautiful..