Should New Orleans be rebuilt?

Answer 1

It's just not that simple. New Orleans is already 150 miles up river from the mouth of the river. Deepsea vessels can go no further upriver than Baton Rouge and from Baton Rouge to below New Orleans the river is already developed for shipping, it's the third busiest port in the world. Without that port you may as well turn the lights out on the farmers throughout the Mississippi/Ohio River valleys and forget about bringing coal to your power plant in Kentucky.

That being said, this is necessary industry for this country that cannot be moved and that needs to be protected. There costs to protect that industry will not go away by moving the city. No matter where the remaining 1.1 million people are moved to (yes, not the 200,000 people in the "city" the media loves to use for drama) the levees will still need to be built and maintained.

I suggest you go down there and see the progress that has been made in the area. The only areas that are in really bad condition are the ones where the levees broke, something which should never have happened. Was New Orleans a natural disaster, no. Was nature involved, sure. Gravity is nature too, but I don't think that would be passed as a valid excuse if the Key Bridge fell in D.C.

Gulf War talk aside, I find it amazing how the little guy in this country repeatedly gets screwed. Want a new lock for shipping? D.C. will find the way to get the money. Want a levee to protect the guy working the locks' house? Sorry, come back next time you are in the political spotlight.

Want to blame someone for the situation, blame God for making the river drain to the gulf rather than the Altantic.

Answer 2

Of course New Orleans should be rebuilt. Anyone who says it's a waste of money has never stood in the heart of the French Quarter and experienced the city's magic first hand. The culture, the history, hell even the food, it's all better in New Orleans.

What cracks me up are the people who support the war in Iraq and then tell you it's a waste of money to rebuild New Orleans. How is it okay to spend billions of dollars destroying Iraq and then spend billions of dollars rebuilding it, but not okay to rebuild one of the great American cities?

Answer 3

Rationally no, however people are rarely rational when it comes to their homes. Politicians are never rational when it comes to pork, so New Orleans will be rebuilt with bigger, stronger levees costing billions. It will not be enough and it will flood again.

Answer 4

I think it should, it's a very historic part of the country. The should do something first about vastly improving the levees though. The whole city is on a flood plain, and it's inevitable a tragedy like Katrina will happen again.

Answer 5

I think it should not be rebuilt because that is lots of money wasted on a state that can barely survive a natural disaster.

Answer 6

NO! A waste of taxpayer money. It is too costly and the people that will govern it have proven to be some of the most corrupt people in the USA. In my opinion. In Louisiana it is difficult enough to find 12 honest jurors

Answer 7

read the papers. new orleans is being rebuilt. billions of FEMA dollars to be had.

Answer 8

no it`s sinking everyday why spend money when the same things will keep happening,they should use the money to rebuild the wetlands and marshes,if they were still there New Orleans might have fared better

Answer 9

Well, the way the atmosphere has been.Im not too sure it would be a good idea..
the weather has been so strange laley, something is bound to happen somewhere near a large body of water again...

Answer 10

If the problems we are having with Global Warming persist, then there really is no point of rebuilding. It will just sink into the ocean when Greenland melts away.