See:  ARRA News Service – Republican Bobby Jindal Elected Governor of Louisiana

He is Indian (does that make him a Chocolate person?) and is out spoken about the failures of Louisiana and its corrupt government. When Fox News tried to pin him down about rebuilding the housing in New Orleans, he did not take the bait. He pointed out that there are billions of dollars already available, but Louisiana has not gone through the steps needed to access and to use these funds to rebuild the infra structure for Louisiana and New Orleans.

I can understand Fred’s frustration. I was born in Appalachia and my birth parents were “White Trash” and no better than the people Fred mentions in New Orleans. Unfortunately some people, regardless of skin color, ignorantly waste their lives at the expense of others. Fortunately, I was taken away, adopted and raised by honorable responsible people.

It is the wealthy and corrupt in the historic section that keep the NO dream alive. Any other city along the Mississippi River would have been forced to move to higher ground to obtain government assistance. People should not be allowed to continue to live in NO surrounded by water and 16 to 19 feet below sea level. Do they really believe that “most” Americans care one hoot about saving NO. Just because the French built this city doesn’t mean we need to save it.

Before Katrina, the local, state and Federal governments failed the poor of NO. The people were enticed to stay and were “containerized” in wards by government furnished housing and / or assistance and hearing the NO words “let the good times roll.”

With NO, we will never be talking about the “normal” problems resulting from natural disasters like those experienced by the rest of the Mississippi and Louisiana. We are talking about people living below water level and expecting to never be affected by a natural disaster be they earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. I would call these people – regardless of color – at a minimum “stupid” and at most “arrogant” for thumbing their nose at God – or for the heathens “Mother Nature.” Even according to the theory of the recent Nobel prize winner, NO is going to be under water no matter what we do — so can’t we all agree for the good of NO that they should “abandon ship.” I bet if we divided up the money set aside by the government for rebuilding NO and for Corps of Engineers to improve and maintain the levees, we could relocate every remaining average family to better homes than they ever dreamed of having in NO.

As I see it, we should give those of NO and interested historians, etc., 2 years max to get their backsides out NO. However, if a storm hits before then – to bad – you have been warned. If the cities elites and engineers wish to rebuild representation of the historic NO buildings at a new location on higher ground some where else, they should go for it. In 2 years, the Federal Government should destroy all remaining buildings, burn the remaining wooden structures and trash, remove the gas, oil and other chemicals etc., move the dead to new locations, open the levees and fill the “hole” fill up with water. Enough is enough for the American taxpayers.

P.S. And for the few concerned about being able to visit in the future the original site NO, no problem, we will make it a National Wideline Lake and entrepreneurs will be able to provide water excursions and skin diving trips – beads included.

This crap pisses me off (one of the comments from the forum):

“Heres the thing though, even if the wildfires would have led to the destruction of more property it still wouldnt have been as bad as Katrina. People in that part of California are much richer than anyone in Louisiana so the rebuilding would have started much quicker. The peoplein California wouldnt have had to wait for FEMA aid or some type of program to get people home”

What a bunch of whiney little punks. Yeah, most of the poeple in CA are not as dirt poor as the lowlife creeps that rely on a handout generation after generation. Why? Because they did something with their lives. I know that may be a complex idea for a professional victim to try and work through, but they need to take a stab at it.

I can’t imagine living my entire life with my hat in my hands, relying on people that work for a living to support me and bail me out of every crisis that comes along. How pathetic.

Your post had the desired effect Fred; I’m madder than a scalded dog. Maybe we should throw some more free credit cards at them so that they can go on more shopping sprees at Circuit City and Gucci. Scumbags.

They try to claim that “SoCal is prone to fire, just like NOLA is prone to floods.” Another news flash: It was arson you morons! Sheesh.

The GOVERNMENT, on ANY level, is NOT your FRIEND.

BZ

It was quite clear that neither Governor Blanco or Mayor Nagin asked for help. I strongly believe that it was done for the fact that it was way to easy to blame the President because that is exactly what the Democrats do…Blame everybody else.

I am a resident of Louisiana and have been my whole life except during my Military service and let me tell you it only gets worse with time instead of better. Hopefully things will get better now that Governor elect Jindal is going to be in charge. God Bless All of Us.

Fred, I’ve got your back Brother.

Along with rest of the world, I paid close attention to the California wildfire disaster. I am among the group of folks that have been offended by the race baiting comparisons regarding Katrina. I just haven’t known how to express my disgust and…