The foolishness of a society | the will to exist
By far, My favorite city in the U.S. of part of A. is New Orleans. I wandered its streets at all hours over nearly a decade, talked to hundreds of its residents, saw its glory and grime and never spent a dull moment in its embrace. To watch the aftermath of Katrina and the monumentally-stupid inaction and fumbling of the current misadminstration was a punch to the gut with every emerging detail of misery and incompetence.
But.
If it takes a massive investment to protect the low-lying lands of New Orleans and its properties, and if that investment is made predicated on rescuing those who expect to be rescued when Nature takes its objective course, then I agree with this article.
On the other hand, if what caused the problem--as it is becoming obvious--was monumental stupidity and inaction, then why don't We take the money from the perpetrators of Katrina's aftermath and those who received huge government contracts to do nothing, and start rebuilding the protection of New Orleans, so that private investment can rebuild the city itself?
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It's amazing how long a post can live. I'm glad you got a little something out of one of mine.
Further thought - if I believed that local and state government had the integrity and honesty to build a working system based on sound engineering that would actually protect New Orleans from a Cat 5 I would have a completely different opinion.
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