Comments on: Where should Katrina evacuees live?

By: serial catowner

serial catowner — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:49:30 +0000

I get pretty darned tired of that “centuries of mistakes” line. Over the past 50 years upstream channelization has aimed the Mississippi like a firehose at New Orleans, and the destruction of wetlands downstream has stripped the city of protection against stormtides.

If there was anything “natural” about the destruction of New Orleans, it certainly would have happened in the first 200 years of the city’s existence- but didn’t.

Mistakes have been made- most of them outside the city.

So now, near the north end of the river, we have Detroit in ruins, and at the south end, New Orleans. Two once-great American cities, now destroyed and abandoned by the white suburban culture.

I’m a little more concerned about the destruction of a city than I am about the cost of remodeling an office.

By: srp

srp — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:30:19 +0000

Well. About “the unconstitutional use of eminent domain.” – didn’t the Ginsberg liberals on the Supreme Court just rule this to be constitutional in New England? Where a town wants to let a private developer build on property owned by other private citizens? It seems that that horse has already been let out of the barn.

About the local and state government of Louisiana, it has been blatantly corrupt for years. To add to all the other stories is the one about the governor going ahead with renovations to her office space at the expense of the taxpayers when she is asking for money from my pocket… frankly, I don’t want to pay for expensive marble for her office.

By: jenett.

jenett. — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:15:36 +0000

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