[fuesquemill]

What does tourism doing for a majority of the people there? I don't know. What is it not doing for a majority of the people there right now? A lot of the people affected by the flooding in the 9th ward and whereever you want to talk about are in Houston, Atlanta, and God knows where else in the country. How will they be affected by anything that is going on in NOLA right now, forget about football.


I didn't do a head count while watching the game, but I'm pretty sure I saw a lot of black people there. A lot of white people, too. But let's not focus on race. Let's focus on New Orleans. The city. What's going to help the city get by? Sink 182 million into houses and cleanup. Hey, I'm all for that. But who is going to live in those houses? What are they going to do for a living? What's going to keep them in NOLA? What did they say last night, just for 1 game, they estimated $12 million dollars pouring into the city. Since I've lived in Louisiana (4 years), I've been to 3 conferences in New Orleans that generated between 500 and 1000 people staying in hotels, eating at restaurants, buying souvenirs, etc for a week. What's going to draw conferences to New Orleans when there's no tourism?


You can't have a city without people, but you won't get people without a city.

and that money wasn't going to the poor before, what makes you believe it will now?