I often wonder from an environmental perspective if parts should not be rebuilt but allowed to be reclaimed by the sea.
The sea should not be reclaiming any part of the Louisiana. A more responsible plan for managing and rebuilding the wetlands is part of the “unaffordable” and “unnecessary” expenditures. The Mississippi River will rebuild the wetlands, we just have to allow it.

Does it make sense to build below sea level? …that which is rebuilt will be destroyed again.
Does it make sense to build anywhere? Almost everywhere is prone to some sort of hazard…blizzards, earthquakes, dams, volcanoes…

But this place – New Orleans – is like no other. It is at the triple junction of the busiest inland waterway on earth and the oceans of the world and the intracoastal waterway. Tampa, Houston, Mobile…none of those places can say that. Before Katrina, South Louisiana ports were four of the eight busiest ports in the United States – two of them in the top four. The nation needs those ports. People are needed to work those ports. Those people live in New Orleans.

The problem isn’t with government. Government is the sum of us – it is our property. The problem flows from allowing government to be sold to the highest bidders, who will never have the public’s best interests at the top of their priority list.

If you wouldn’t “turn out” one of your own for $, then you should support the separation of “free markets” and “our government”.

(i feel a little dirty now, from dealing with ideas that came from grover norquist and ronald reagan – brb after i wash up)

Yeah right……
What a clown

Comment by bilbobaggins — September 25, 2007 @ 11:46 am

The amazing thing is that year after year, no aspect of the fiasco in Iraq is unaffordable or unnecessary. There’s always room for more killing, more destruction, more war, more war, more war.

We have all the money in the world for the folly of “building a democracy in the middle east.” But, here in America: an American city is physically destroyed; an American state is economically crippled, and American citizens are deprived of their lives, their jobs, their property, and their homes, and suddenly, we are fiscally too responsible to help.

We are told relentlessly: It’s not the Federal governments job to rebuild a New Orleans. But it is, evidently, the Federal government’s job to rebuild Iraq.

Your question is as simplistic as your reasoning.

I am very much a proponent of the Constitution and Rule of law. One of those tenants of the Constitution is to promote the general welfare. Spying on citizens without a warrant is a violation of the Constitution.

I believe in a strong military, but oppose using our military for corporate interests, the military should only be used if our country is at risk from an attack, not because a country took an oil field away from Exxon or peasants are striking at Chichita banana farm in central America. ( Iraq was over OIL, Bush lied )

I am neither Republican or Democrat, I am more of a liberal leaning independant. Neither party has the best interests of citizens at heart, while they pocket money from Big Business.

Vendetta @ 114 – they still, very much, do.

Comment by Wayne — September 25, 2007 @ 1:04 pmHow

Yep…

Comment by Vendetta — September 25, 2007 @ 12:45 pm

The Inquisition, the subjugation and extermination of indiginous peoples all over the planet, slaughter of the Hugeunots, the Crusades, the 30 Years War, the Saxon War… da hits jes’ keep on comin’, as dey say in de muszak bidness…

Since you do not even know my positions on big government or my opposition, you are showing a lack of logic and your posts historically shown a lack of creative thinking.

Comment by bilbobaggins — September 25, 2007 @ 12:51 pm

Bilbo, I’ve got to take issue with you on this. While I agree that religion has played an enormous role in wars and death, I think that you’ll find that wars of territory and conquest have been responsible for equal or greater numbers. This is especially true when you consider that the wars of the last few centuries, due to “efficiencies” have managed to slaughter huge quantities of people and most of them have not been religious in nature.

Romans, Mongols, the colonization of North and South America . . . all primarily wars of conquest and territory with very little actual religious content (although the Spanish conquests certainly had this as a component).

Just sayin’.

Your logic is seriously flawed. Most people who have died on this earth have died because of religion. Many governments start wars that are based on religious beliefs or to protect religious groups.

And your straw man argument that if you don’t oppose big government you support anarchy is just that, a stupid straw-man argument.

I support a government that is in existence to support the people within the country the government applies. I believe our government has the duty to protect us, provide for our welfare….you know, all that stuff that is in the Constitution.

Our current Administration is trying to destroy our government so that they can replace it with private industry. That way their rich friends can not only make money off of war, they can also make money off of doing the things the constitution provides for. If that ever comes to pass, the United States of America will cease to exist. We will officially become the United Corporations of America.

Bullsh!t.

I am anti Organized Religion. I come by my opinion from the historical records showing organized religions, christian, muslum, hindu, etc.. has shed more innocent blood over the history of mankind than all the tyrants and dictators of history put together.

That is alot of innocent blood on the hands of those who profess to speak for God.

And christians, historically, when they do not have non-christans to murder, tend to turn on other christians of different sects to persecute and murder. Historical fact.

Yes, now they can go on trial at a “Military Tribunal” where they have virtually no rights. They don’t have the right to confront witnesses and they don’t have the right to present witnesses on their behalf. These “Military Tribunal’s” are your basic Kangaroo Court.

Mebbe on the short bus back to Clown Alley???