[FUNALA]

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.

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.