If GUSTAV Hits The New Orleans Area Hard, Will The Money Spent On Reconstruction Be Considered Wasted ?

Question

why do people get so mad... is it not safe to assume that the real lack of visable reconstruction might be due to the fact that people who Owned property got paid & realized that rebuilding below sea level while living on the gulf coast would be ignorant and moved to build personal & Comercial property somewhere else?

Answer 1

what reconstruction?

new orleans looks just as bad as the day katrina hit.

no one did a dam thing to help that poor city!

Answer 2

You mean to tell me Bush is going to let another Hurricane hit N.O.?

Whats he got against that city anyway?

I was just talking to my  friends the other day, saying, how the first thing he should have done when he was elected, was to to fix those d**n pesky levy's, and that bridge in Minn. too!

Answer 3

New Orleans does NOT look just as bad as the day it was hit.  I was there recently and they have done a great job at rebuilding.  There are still some buildings and houses that are boarded up, and some neighborhoods have not made a comeback -- but, then, only 1/3 of the population has returned.

The only money that will be wasted is that money that went to the levees if they break again.

Answer 4

My grand son came in early this AM, he has his daughter, his girlfriend and her daughter, his mom is staying there with her husband as he will be one of the last to leave and one of the first to have to go back. As my grand son says there is nothing much to lose because it is all still gone from the last time. About the only help, "reconstruction" that went on there was for those who needed it the least. The average person's life will never recover, my grandson is a master Carpender/cabinet maker, you would think there would be a lot of work for him this last 3 years, and there would be, except,,,, that insurance STILL has not paid for all his tools that he lost. so he has been having to turn down good paying jobs in his field and work for someone else at less than 1/2 the money. By the way, the guy he works for got loan of tools, a building and 3 trucks, from the government to start, back in business. he made his first restitutiontion payment last month, now will likely not have to make any more for who knows how long. I learned when I lived there that life in NOLA is based entirely on WHO you know, and the after effects of Katrina continue to prove it. To answer your Q, yes the money will be wasted,,,, unless they can find a way to be more fair about what, how, & who is helped.

Answer 5

Have they refilled the warehouses with household goods that were intended to be distributed but were eventually sold for ten cents on the dollar? Will new mobile homes be purchased and then failed to be provided to those in need? This is what will be expected! What good is building levee's when it just causes the water to flood elsewhere instead? If you save one area it will cause worse flooding downstream!

Answer 6

I don't know if the money is wasted or not but I know from experience with the feds that they are not going to keep pouring money into a loosing project. The Mississippi will reclaim what is hers and no amount of levee's will stop it. When it's time it will be retaken.