[Leica] RE: PAW Week 3 Jeffrey---Nagin

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

You are back peddling, just like that Texan. This term paper just  doesn't 
wash.  Your research is weak.  You pretend to agree with me,  but cite 
crapola.  
Sorry, you get a D.  
 
 

In a message dated 1/27/2006 8:43:31 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
puff11@comcast.net writes:


 
 
>>This pending disaster should have
>>been obvious to  everyone, especially given the decades long awareness of  
the
>>potential events just waiting to happen.  
 
Just watch CNN, last week they reported AGAIN the LSU models that were  sent 
to the White House days before the storm, also months before the storm,  to 
no 
avail.
 
>>What I was trying to say is that
>>there were so many  individual and collective failures over so much time,
>>that there is  simply no constructive purpose in finger pointing and  name
>>calling.
 
Absolutely wrong, the denizens should be outed
 
>>The economic value of the port and the oil/gas industry to the  nation or 
>>to
>>>the local economy is not in  doubt. .....
 
You totally ignored that in your first post.  You were ready to  write the 
city off, move it where?
 

>>>I think the Netherlands makes my point.  blah blah  blah, 
 
where did you find this crap? on Google?

>>>That's not a model that I endorse though.
 
Clearly you endorse moving the entire population to the desert.  

>>>I feel that we Americans are faced with a much more open  ended choice.   
At
>>>this time the more humane and, to  me more constructive solution is to 
spend
>>>the money on people,  not on the edifices.  
 
So, no housing for them?
 
>>There are a large number of destitute and displaced persons, and  a large 
number of >>suffering people who are still in the muck and mire,  and they 
need 
help.  They need >>money to see doctors, they need  education to rise them 
out of the poverty they >>lived in while trapped  in that socio-economic 
prison. 
 
 
So if we don't rebuild, where will they live and work?  And you  elegant 
solution ignores people who like me (once, I was not a victim)   owned a 
nice 
house in Lakeview that had ten feet of water, and cannot gte  insurance 
money.
 
 
Many lost their jobs, their possessions, even loved ones.  Those  people 
need 
help finding new jobs and replacing lost possessions.  They  need help to 
relocate if they choose, and they need an opportunity and time to  heal and 
to 
grow. 
 
I said that before you.  I think you stole the thought.
 
>>>Once that need is met, once that human crisis is addressed,  then they or
>>anyone else who wants to build a city there, using  Dutch or other
>>>approaches, should be  encouraged to have a  go at it.  .
 
Just the opposite of your earlier post.  Are you gonna ask to kiss  me next?

>>>Even if I accepted that there are transcendental  reasons why the city 
>>>must
>>>be rebuilt - I then have to ask - at  whose expense?  Should I pay 
>>>anything
>>>for this?   

You will no matter what.  We all will. In Louisiana, we are paying  by not 
having budgets to pay for paper to run the copy machines for our  students. 
(A 
tiny example)  Public employees are furloughed and we can't  hire employees 
to 
replace those who left.  We are paying, while you play  with Google.  But 
mind 
me well, you will be paying.
 
 
>>>To be more explicit - should my tax dollars go to this  venture?
>>>Why?  I'm not convinced that there is a reason  for me to want to do this,
>>>given my preference for spending the  money on helping the victims 
directly,
>>>rather than in funding a  city renovation.  
 
It aint the United Way, you don't have a choice.
 
 
>>I'm not being obtuse - I really want to understand, from folks  who have a 
vested >>interest in the outcome:why should I want to fund  this?    
 
Because it will benefit you.  So you can buy a new Kia that is being  
delivered through the Port of New Orleans.

>>   I am  sorry that you see those feelings as a pat on the hand and an 
exhortation  >>that it will be all right.  I meant nothing so demeaning and  
trite.
 
Then come down and shoot it yourself.  Don't tell us that it will be  better 
if we shoot. You got a camera or just a thesaurus? 



Sonny