The 182 million spent on the superdome, to my knowledge, is not the only money that's been spent in New Orleans. As for the displaced people, there's nothing down there to come back to right now. The hotel industry is slow, restaurants, tourist trap shops. I don't think the rich people were the ones changing sheets and replacing the little soaps in the hotels. Poverty is a problem. It shouldn't be fixed (or tried to be fixed) in lieu of fixing infrastructure, IMO. If not fix the Superdome, what would you have done with the money? Not generic answers like "build homes" or "give it to people displaced"...what exactly should've been done? I'm not averse to thinking there might have been a better way to spend it, but to treat reopening the Superdome as an act of evil is a little farfetched, IMO.