These are people who support the evacuation and abandonment of the New Orleans and South Louisiana in lieu of any engineering or or environmental vision to save it. These are the short-sighted, inspirationally-challenged citizens of America. These are individuals who have become detached from the spirit of accomplishment that led to the greatest public works projects of the 20th century. They are also scoundrels whose infatuation with tax dollars overrides their humanity. And perhaps they were unaware that when they decided to go out of their way to address and support the forced evacuation of millions of people, they happened to be walking on the fighting side of those very people.
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John Hawkins
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
columnist, Chicago Tribune in Chicago, Illinois
E-mail: johnhawkins@rightwingnews.com
Homepage: http://www.rightwingnews.com/, http://www.myspace.com/conservativegrapevine
He has said…
Just why hasn’t the pity party for the citizens of New Orleans run out of booze and chips yet?
Want to know another person who needs to be told the truth? It’s New Orleans resident Erick Ventura, who said this,
“America really doesn’t give a s*** about New Orleans. We forget. The bridge that collapsed [in Minnesota] — it’s gone, it’s yesterday’s news. The miners — if they’re not digging a sixth hole, we forget about them. We as a society, we really don’t give a d*mn.”
Guess what, buddy? You’re right; nobody does “give a s*** about New Orleans”
For the citizens and former citizens of New Orleans who’ve already moved on with your lives the best you can, God bless you and best of luck to you. But, for the rest of the Katrina victims who are still complaining that America has “forgotten me” two years later, here’s a piece of advice: it’s time to get over Katrina already.
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Steve Chapman
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
columnist, Chicago Tribune in Chicago, Illinois
E-mail: schapman@tribune.com
He has said…
As one scientist said after Katrina, “A city should never have been built there in the first place.” Now that we have a chance to correct the mistake, why repeat it?
The cost of the levee system envisioned by Sen. Clinton is tabbed at $40 billion. Restoring other infrastructure would increase the cost. The question is whether that’s the best use of our resources. For $40 billion, you could give more than $61,000 to every Louisianian displaced by Katrina, nearly a quarter of a million dollars for a family of four.
Here’s the question that ought to be considered: Would those people prefer that the money be spent shoring up dikes around a natural lake? Or would they rather get the money themselves and decide whether to stay or migrate to less soggy terrain?
Many, if not most, would choose the cash.
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Bryce Lambley
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
writer, Freemont Tribune in Freemont, Nebraska
He has said…
Yes, the destruction caused by Katrina was devastating and I truly feel bad for those affected. And I do hope much of the city can be rebuilt Å on higher ground and without my tax money.
So what should we learn from this disaster? Move the city to higher ground!
Are they serious? They built a city on ancient river-borne sediment that is prone to compaction (sinking) and did it below the level of an ocean that is known for brewing up nasty storms, and suddenly they’re horrified this great act of tempting fate backfires.
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Robert M. Thorson
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
professor of geology at the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
E-mail: profthorson@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.stonewall.uconn.edu/thorson/index.html
He has said…
My plan has only one point. That we not spend another dime on U.S. properties below sea level – and use that money instead to help sea-level refugees find safer homes elsewhere.
I believe that the real reason New Orleans remains unfixed – without police and fire protection and with vacant hospitals – is because objective visionaries and smart money sees such rebuilding as a risky, if not wasteful war against nature.
A rational yielding to nature’s greater power inspires only a few voters of my persuasion.
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Rep. Dennis Hastert
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
E-mail: http://www.house.gov/hastert/write1.shtml
Homepage: http://www.house.gov/hastert/index.shtml
2304 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2976
Fax: 202-225-0697
He has said…
In reference to spending on the recovery:
“I don’t know. That doesn’t make sense to me.”
And…
“It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed,”
Though he later balked on advocating the relocation of the city, Hastert remains on the list due to his importance as a member of the U.S. Congress.
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Jack Shafer
Enemy to the Peoples and Cultures of New Orleans and South Louisiana
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Shafer has said:
Only a sadist would insist on resurrecting this concentration of poverty, crime, and deplorable schools. Yet that’s what New Orleans’ cheerleaders—both natives and beignet-eating tourists—are advocating. They predict that once they drain the water and scrub the city clean, they’ll restore New Orleans to its former “glory.”
Unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years—an unlikely to absurd proposition—the place won’t be rebuilt.
But it would be a mistake to raise the American Atlantis. It’s gone.
Full article:
Don’t Refloat: The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New Orleans.
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