New Orleans mayor outraged at feds
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lets all of his frustration out in an interview with WWL Radio. To hear the 12-minute audio (cover your ears if profanity offends you) go to this CNN link
The Washington Post has a shorter, edited version.
posted by xoff @ 11:02 AM
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And somehow you can still manage to engage in a partisan rant.
Let's start local and work our way out. Even then this disaster doesn't leave room to blame the mayor or governor. I wouldn’t even blame Clinton for vetoing levy funding.
As for your knee-jerk reaction… they don't need a "Marshall Plan." The city is nearly empty. The citizens need to relocate and build new lives. They need to receive prompt payment from the insurance companies and they need to move on. There is nothing to go back to. I am even fine with some small federal stipend to go with the insurance payments. Just as long as they move out and on.
We also need to evacuate the people who were left in harms way. City officials had two days to bus the poor (people who had no means of escape) out of the city. Those are the people who remain in New Orleans. They must be relocated too.
The city is gone. The barrier islands that once provided natural protection against storms have been washed away leaving the area formerly known as New Orleans in permanent jeopardy even with a cat 2 or 3 storm.
True vision would recognize that. FDR would have colluded with Huey Long and made a fortune rebuilding the city and awaiting the next disaster and the next big pay-off.
Enlightened Liberalism – obviously not.
Property owners in Biloxi and New Orleans had insurance – what planet are you on?
The people who you want to bring the Marshall Plan to are gone – they have left. The few that remain are being evacuated. There is almost nothing for them to come back to. Do you expect people to live in tent cities while their homes are rebuilt? This is not going to be like Homestead.
The extent of the damage is far worse and the time it will take to rebuild is well beyond the victims ability to maintain temporary lives waiting for a “Marshall Plan” to put it back together.
Of course they will need assistance – they need to build new lives.
So, the Feds will provide the traditional bailout. In fact the percentages are smaller than one would expect. If the number is accurate, it only serves to underscores my point. Even fewer people will come back to take the chance again. They will be building new lives elsewhere.
If New Orleans can come back to life at all, it will be more of a tourism city with far fewer residents and that is probably a good thing. The geography wasn’t safe enough to support a residential metropolis in the first place.
I still don’t see how a “Marshall Plan” helps anything for New Orleans. It needs to be rebuilt in some way or another but not like it was.
As for my anonymity –look around the blogosphere. Just about everyone has some kind of handle. How that makes me a coward? If you knew my name, what good would it do you anyway? Pick one out of the phonebook, it means about the same thing.
For all you know, you have passed me a dozen times in your life and you did not know it and you didn’t care. It is actually rather senseless.
Apparently, you and the Capital Times liked it better in the old days when you could spout off for all of us to read without any proper forum for our response. Too bad, it’s a new era.
Maybe some day that forum for responses will even apply to Sykes.
Yes, by all means – move on.
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