Will they ever realize they are not the only people in the world do go through a disaster? Will they ever stop expecting the "government and President Bush" to make their lives the same as they were before Katrina. If my life had been turned upside like theirs was two years ago, I would have moved on and started to rebuild by now. It's been two years! Stop crying and stop taking care of yourself and your family. While the WWII generation is known as the greatest generation, I think the Katrina New Orleans generation will be known as the most embarrassing of the American generations. How about showing some backbone and doing something for yourselves?
2007-08-29 13:26:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Just another opportunity for a hand out. Half are still in paid housing with no intention of trying to do better. They would rather live in a free house and whine, than get out and work.
2007-08-30 07:58:37 · answer #1 · answered by natwag 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Although the one guy who answered this question at the bottom has made some good points it is not enough for me. Nobody should be living there because of sea level issues. If you rebuild and you can not get insurance then tough sh-t don't come crying to the government and say you need to rebuild us. I have listened to enough crap about New Orleans and the people going to Washington to march on the steps. When it was up and running you had the worst crime and corruption on the planet. The mayor called it the chocolate city because of all the blacks there and he was going to make it a chocolate city again. You lost me there whites should have been in outrage with prejudisum but it does not work that way it only works that way if you are black. Stop your whining and move on and by the way Houston does not want any of you either. I do not want to throw any more money at a lost cause like New Orleans. They can build another port somewhere else where it is much safer and it will probably be cheaper to go that route.
2007-08-31 09:56:19 · answer #2 · answered by dandls_99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The situation in NO is not so simple. The US Army Corps of Engineers has a lot of control over the life and death of the city, because it is located at the edge of the sea, almost under water, and its port is one of the most important in the whole country. Louisiana has a quirky form of State government, inherited from the French. Jurisdiction in the flooded areas is divided up between parishes (counties), the city, the State and the Feds. There are areas of rubble that have yet to be cleared because there is so much to be demolished and the organization of authority and responsibility is so mixed up.
The biggest problem is that rebuilding requires either cash or credit, and credit requires insurance, and insurance cannot be had in many areas until the Army fixes the levees and flood walls. This leaves hundreds of thousands without homes to go back to, without jobs to go back to, and without municipal services to make their property even inhabitable much less rebuildable. Even if everything was fixed (which it will not be until 2012), the State and the insurance companies are in litigation over rates, terms, and coverages, and no new insurance policies against flood, or storms, or even fire and theft can be written until these issues are settled. Without insurance, much of New Orleans and vicinity, and the Mississippi area south of I-10, cannot be rebuilt at all. How would you like to have your town destroyed by a storm and be told you can't rebuild because the public agencies and private companies are arguing over insurance rules? That is what is going on in New Orleans...
2007-08-30 18:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by vdpphd 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If they face up to the cold hard facts that, if you live there you are a risk taker and most risk takers do not always gain by taking the risk. I really feel sorry for people who have problems due to things beyond their control, but if you tempt fate and Mother Nature why does everyone else have to pay the price for the risk you took and lost ?
2007-08-29 13:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by Knarf 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
A great thing is happening in NO. Educated working people are taking jobs there and improving the economy. The non working welfare peeps are still lounging in Houston and other cities they fled to after the storm.
2007-08-29 14:26:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I didn't even scroll down to see the other answers before I answered this, It's definately with mixed feelings.......but from what I can see....this is the perfect example between people who EXPECT to bailed out and those that pick themselves up by the boot straps and go forward.
This world has experienced worse catastrophes.....they are up and running....but these guys are still waiting ......I hate to be mean....but people that left there did better once they left there, Blessing in disguise.
I don't beleive they said that people came back....there was just an influx of people who took their place.
Most of those people in the 9th ward were section 8 renters. They weren't HOME owners. They were RENTERS. Would you go back once you got a free ride out of there to a better place? Hell NO!!~!!
I used to beg for a chance out of Florida. People don't stay there because they WANT to....they stay coz they can't get out!!!!!! For many this was a GIFT to get out of there!
I would be curious to see how many people saw this as the BEGINING of their life and not the end.
2007-08-29 13:54:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
There are two mantras now:
1. Whatever bad happens, it someone Else's fault.
2. Why hasn't the government done this or that for me?
While it is good our government "helps" it seems people want them to do it all. The town is below sea level, folks, what are you doing building there in the first place!
Gee, my million dollar house on the ocean front cliff fell into the ocean. Please Uncle Sam, build it for me again...
2007-08-29 13:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
Of course the residents of N.O. aren't the only ones to have gone through a disaster. However, it is the most significant disaster to have happened in this country in the past two years. The reason we keep hearing about it in the news is that east New Orleans is still in shambles and not enough has been done about it.
2007-08-29 15:44:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 8⤋
I am near there and its getting very old very quick...my area was the one that took the eye of that storm...NO just flooded when the levee let go...WE got hit with the durn thing and it plastered us...but OUR state Governor got off his bum and got us some help..that mayor and Gov over in La took their time and their people suffered
2007-08-29 14:47:01 · answer #9 · answered by Dr Sardonicus 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Many of the residents have moved on. The ones that were permanently attached to the governments teet are the ones who are complaining.
2007-08-29 13:31:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋