New Orleans goes right back to their previous poor levee ways, should we help them at all next time?

Question

I vote we let the idiots drown.

Story on Yahoo front page.

Answer 1

the feds are building the levees, not the people of new orleans.  if the corps of engineers cant do it right, then who ya gonna call?  whatever happens, its not the peoples doing, its the feds.

Answer 2

The evil republicans still have that machine that can direct a hurricane to the exact place they want to destroy.  So it does not matter they can still brake the levees.  Everyone said Bush was using it to get Katrina to hit New Orleans but you know it was Channey - Bush is too stupid to operate such a complicated piece of equipment.

Answer 3

I didn't find the story you are referring to, but I sort of agree with you on this one. Logistically, New Orleans is a stupid place to have built a city. The failure of the levees should have been a wake-up call, and personally I don't think they should rebuild. With storms supposedly getting stronger in the future, it's only going to get washed out again at some point, especially if they don't build up the levees to withstand whatever they need to in that situation.

Nature has proven time and again that it is stronger than virtually all engineering efforts, I think it's foolhardy to believe otherwise.  

Answer 4

I was one of those 'idiots' you're talking about.  Let me clarify something for you.  It's not the people of New Orleans who are s******g this levy thing up, they're fighting with all they have to get this work done and done correctly.  You have no idea what kind of red tape is coming between New Orleans and having safe levees.  You can't get these giant levees that run along both sides of the mississippi fixed, reinforced, and just magically built to Cat 5 strength standards in only a couple years.  And they have been building.

You certainly can't do it when you're fighting the government for funding that you don't have in the first place after losing so much tourism after the storm.   That was the city's main form of revenue.  

I recommend that you go visit so you can really see for yourself what a wonderful place it is, and you don't have this uneducated, biased attitude toward the city's people, and a  's***w em, let em drown'  mentality.  

Another thing, until you go through something as traumatic as being stuck in 95 degree heat with no food or water for 5 days, because you COULDN'T get out,  people dying all around you, and gunshots going off every few minutes, think about your words. Only a complete d*ckhead would say that.

Answer 5

We will know in about forty eight hours. Good old ever-lasting Tropical Storm Fay is about to descend upon New Orleans and flooding is certain.