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RE: Just a thought... how to "fix" New Orleans? - 10/4/2005 8:54:57 PM

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Rebuilding New Orleans is not a choice that those who live outside of it should make. It is up to those who live and work there to decide, just like if your house burned down you would not want your neighbors to decide if you should rebuild it, we should not decide for those in New Orleans

That's find and dandy if they decide to pay for it and later maker the right provisions needed for the next disaster to evacuate and such. When the rest of the State and Nation have there TAX dollars go into the New Orleans project, it makes it everyones DAMN BUSSINESS.

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RE: Just a thought... how to "fix" New Orleans? - 10/4/2005 8:59:15 PM

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there's a reason new orleans is where it is. it's the farthest inland port for ocean going vessels on the mississippi river. it's the port where much of our imports and exports travel in and out of the country. so there has to be a port at that spot on the river. which also means there has to be a city there. has anyone suggested moving san francisco because it was nearly destroyed by an earthquake and fire? or los angeles because it's on the san andreas fault? we build cities in inhospitable areas. the netherlands is mostly below sea level. should all the dutch be relocated? please, people, accept that nature sometimes knocks things down, and we have to set them back up again. oh... by the way, venice is sinking. perhaps that's not a good model.

In this case, why not back New Orleans up where it is on higher ground? Leave what is flooded and just back away from the water/swamp. Build the port there and then start rebuilding the everything making it on higher ground at that. To me, that sounds much easier than pumping all that water out just to have another hurricane such as Rita put it right back in.

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RE: Just a thought... how to "fix" New Orleans? - 10/4/2005 10:06:39 PM

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ORIGINAL: girl4you2

what kind of money poured into san francisco in 1906? it's still not in wyoming. loma prieta/oakland isn't in utah. nyc hasn't been relocated to arizona. where do you start and stop? we could all end up on reservations; ironic, that. high, dry and safe.

ack! I wasn't thinking moving it to Kansas....just maybe upriver a bit.

About 15 years ago I visited Seattle, and it seems like there was some tourist attraction to an underground part of that city. Apparently Seattle flooded a few times, and someone brought in a shitload of topsoil and shifted Seattle up.

The United States doesn't have a Gold Card of Epic Proportions; we can't simply restore New Orleans to its original grandeur and then just leave it there. Levees will have to be rebuilt, and not half-assedly repaired. Talking heads in New Orleans and Louisiana in general are bitching about the costs of rebuilding the city, and not just in terms of rebuilding buildings, but in terms of fixing problems the region suffered before Katrina. To hear the mayor of NO and the governor of LA talk, they have some major issues economically that they want the federal government to correct along with Katrina damage. If New Orleans isn't viable, can't pay its own way, with all of its international seaport commerce, then maybe we can't afford as a nation to spend a couple hundred billion here to rebuild, and a few hundred billion there to revitalize, a city that after a few hundred years still can't pay its own way.

Culture is lovely; I'm in favor of it. But it's welfare. We can't have Iraq, tax cuts, and New Orleans, too. It's sad, but where the hell does everyone think the money will come from to fix New Orleans and keep it there?

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