are you surprised?

The rich people are cleaning the rooms, mopping the floors, and driving the taxis?

not at all. i found it typical actually.

those jobs will certainly provide the means to overcome losing everything you had.

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.

Do I have all the answers about how to bring the city back? no
Do I have any? No

But these tax dollars, this tourism did nothing for the city before. How can you have that much tourism and yet have the poorest city in the U.S.?

And these little jobs that you guys talk about? They pay minimum wage. Hince why they can't afford to feed families.


Like you said the people really affected by this storm are no where near there anymore and probably won't ever be able to make it back. You hear all the time that the mayor is trying to make it a rich town with high rise condos. Thats what gets to me. America is trying to shape and mold it into the city they want it to be. Instead of the city it used to be.

The poor people were not the only ones affected
Poor people are not the only ones that live in New Orleans
Who works at the hotels, in the restaurants, in the casinos, and in the tourist trap shops? The Rockefellers?

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.



It's not a genie in a bottle. It's called 'work' for a reason.

build adequate levees.

If they're poor, then did they really lose much. If people are still living there, they still have a house. If they've been displaced, they have a house somewhere else. And maybe a life somewhere else, too.

I'm not trying to paint this as the best thing that could've happened...but it's what has happened. Gotta start somewhere.

Didn't the 'city it used to be' get dunked under 12 feet of water?

So you agree rather then trying to bring back the people that have lived their for generations you should build high rise condos? Thats seriously what they are doing down there. Mayor Nagan even got accused of trying to make it a 'white city'. Bringing in the rich and leaving out the poor.

Louisiana is known for corruption in government. That's how.

I've never worked a job down there, so I don't know how much they pay.

to them, i'd be willing to bet it was a lot.

closer to 20 in some areas.

You can replace the entire levee system with $182 million?


And, the breached areas have been replaced already. And they still had $182 mil for the dome.

But the superdome can withstand cat 5 hurriances now! Woohoo


Seriously though. I agree they should do that but reopening the superdome is something that should of been done and i'm glad they did. My problem lies in the fact that they make a whole huge event out of it so me and you and everyone else that didn't get a drop of rain can now feel good about ourselves and sleep at night.

Wow, that's news to me. Last I heard, he was calling for it to be a "chocolate city" again.

A black mayor beating hell to bring in whitey? Again, news to me.

Possibly.

If you're talking about objects with sentimental value, the poor aren't the only ones affected by sentiment.