Should New Orleans be rebuilt?

Question

Given the extensive scientific evidence that New Orleans is quite possibly the worst possible place in the United States to form a metropolis, and considering the fact that the tax payers are the ones that pay to rebuild the area, should we pour more money into a disaster prone, below sea level city that could very easily be toppled once again?

I just want to thank everyone for their input, even those who may have found this question offensive. This type of debate is the real essence of democracy

Answer 1

No, it's under sea level and could happen again.People can find somewhere else to get drunk and show their boobs. That money needs to go to securing our borders.
Crime rates have gone up in cities where the gangs that left New Orleans have took up in. So I'm sure those cities are wanting it rebuilt.

Answer 2

Should New Orleans Be Rebuilt

Answer 3

I think if it's going to be rebuilt, it won't be the government doing it. I think those who were displaced need assistance. But if the the city is to regain its special status of being one of the most unique cities in the world, it will be the movers and shakers who love that city that will do it. I also feel discretion has to be used on where to rebuild and where dams should be built. This is not a city that should be built on individual whims, but with forethought. And a ton of energy and wisdom and creativity from the amazing people who make the city New Orleans. The mayor feels that the city has done all it can for the many he has asked to come back. And he still calls them back..........with thousands of homeless who came and are living in cardboard shacks on his doorstep. The city can't house them. Many of these people are working. But rent has risen 30% because of the lack of places to live. Seems to me he might set limits on "rent gouging" to help them afford a place to live. Perhaps require landlords to go back to the rent they were charging pre-Katrena. That would make housing affordable. But the guy wouldn't even go out and look at the homeless community living on his doorstep.. I don't think the man has vision. Or anyone else in Louisiana. This is their moneypot. Why aren't they helping? It's been 2 years, which is enough time to get some good plans in action to get a plan that works.

Answer 4

There are quite a few places that baffle me as to why anyone would want to live there. Here in California we have homes built on hillsides that slide at the slightest sign of rain. We have homes built in places that have been burned down many times and still they rebuild. I suppose if the taxpayers want to put their hard-earned money into rebuilding New Orleans, go ahead. I dont live on the side of a hill or in the forest, but a lot of people do. Their choice.

Answer 5

I feel as though New orleans should be rebuilt. But there should be some serious measures that are taken in case of another hurricane. It is true we cannot stop natural disaters but we can be prepared for them. I believe that these are american citizens we are talking about and they deserve to have there homes back. N.O should be built on higher ground and although it will be a costly procedure, I know that the city overall will be better, than before the Hurricane. Just hopefully everything dosent blow-up in our face when it is hurricane time again.

Answer 6

Your question is one that many Americans are pondering. Rebuilding new Orleans does not make a whole lot of practical sense. However, we are a nation that has always overcome the worst adversity possible. Even though there is a clear sense of letting New Orleans go, we must rebuild to maintain our own personal stature and that of our ancestors who created this experiment that we live today. If we let New Orleans go, what city is next---yours?

Answer 7

I live in australia but if I were american that is one place I would NOT live. I saw a report on TV just recently which said it would take at least 5 years to rebuild the levee system (higher I hope) what would happen if another Katrina came along before then. More death and desctruction thats what. Here in australia we were shocked by the slowness and seeming inability of the govt authorities to swing into rescue mode. Will that also be the case next time? NOPE I wouldnt live there.

Answer 8

If it is to be rebuilt safely there are too many problems that are not being considered. The natural barrier of the delta has disappeared and needs to be rebuilt. Ideally the city needs to be raised above sea level. I don't see that happening. Then the levees have to be constucted to withstand the storm surge from a category 5 hurricane. From what I've seen on reports this isn't being done. I don't have any faith in Mayor Ray Nagin during the crisis or since. He seems to continue to pass the blame instead of rolling up his sleeves and getting to work.

Answer 9

I was born and raised in New Orleans and yes it should be rebuilt!!! Why did we rebuild San Francisco...don't you know that an earthquake can come any day now and wipe out San Fran...and what about Los Angeles...there are all kinds of danger zones throughout the states...why ask why!!!!

Answer 10

Look you...

New Orleans *had* safeguards in place to *protect* the city from hurricanes. Safeguards *we ourselves* built. Guess who *denied funding* to maintain and keep those safeguards *working*? That's right, *Your Boy* G.W. Bush.

But let's actually address the face-value question here, shall we? We did this at least once already--otherwise New Orleans wouldn't have been there in the first place, right? Likewise, other cities are also in places at or below sea level, near the ocean, that also make them "hurricane bait" as well....

So, why don't you go do something useful like tell, oh, I dunno, the folks in *Galveston* down in Texas, or the folks in Biloxi, Mississippi that they have *no business* living where they live, and that if their town gets trashed by a hurricane, you won't (will not, that is) be bothered to rebuild.

Or, to put this another way. If it weren't for people *spending money* on dams, water dikes and levees, to hold back sea water....a *whole country* wouldn't exist. The Netherlands, a.k.a. Holland, the whole *thing* is a "disaster prone, below sea level city that could very easily be toppled once again?" kind of affair by your logic.

Show me some *links* to your so-called "scientific evidence".

Really, cough up some links, and they had *best* be from serious, *recognized* scientific journals that *are NOT* politically bent.

Why? Because in the absence of links I have to assume you are trolling and deliberately *attacking* folks. Honestly. It's that simple. You're attacking the poor people of New Orleans, the people *your Boy* Bush left to Rot for five days straight because His Imperial Fraudulency couldn't be bothered to interrupt his precious vacation time. FACT.

These people were *ran* out of their homes already by the damned Hurricane, Katrina, and now you want to run them out of a home city *forever* just because it isn't *convenient* for you right-wad imbeciles to bother cleaning up *YOUR* mess and rebuliding. You guys took away the levee funding, YES YOU DID, and you guys put that *crony* Brownie in charge, YES YOU DID.

New Orleans is GOING to be Rebuilt, damn you.

Shut your hole and *do it* already, what are you, some kind of Nazi? Do you get off on seeing poor folks and people of color die? WTF?

I'd like to see YOUR hometown leveled, destroyed, and left to ROT sometime....just so the rest of us can torture you by talking on and on about "should we rebuild" and all this vile, wretched nonsense....you deserve a *home*, right? A place to live, a place where you can work for a living?

Ok then, so do the good people of New Orleans, ALL OF THEM, even the poor folks, even the ones you people from Texass don't like.

Bite me. Reported.

Answer 11

If it would get the riff raff that left new orleans and came to live in Texas to go back then I say Oh H3ll Yeah!