Re: Will Bush Keep Pledge to Rebuild Bridge?

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - For New Orleans residents, the scene was all too
familiar: President Bush, touring the site of the collapsed I-35W bridge
in
Minneapolis, promising to cut red tape and rebuild as quickly as
possible.

Nearly two years ago, with parts of New Orleans still under water after
Hurricane Katrina, Bush made similar declarations in the French Quarter.
The
president's promise was all Melanie Thompson needed to hear to bring back
her family of five and begin work on their flooded home.

But today Thompson's family is still living in a cramped trailer and
awaiting aid to rebuild. Her hope and faith in government have faded and
she
worries for the people of Minneapolis.

"I just hope to God they come to their rescue a lot quicker than they did
ours," she said.

It isn't the job of taxpayers, the Feds, the President, Congress, etc.
to "rebuild" New Orleans.

Cities grow over many decades, centuries. Cities destroyed cannot be
rebuilt by government.

Further, rebuilding most of the low-lying, below sea level, negro
ghettoes would be a colossal mistake. For multiple reasons.

Most of those affected left completely. Only a small number of welfare
people are living in tents and trailers, somehow expecting government
to rebuild a city.

And odds are high that anyone now living in a trailer was a _renter_,
as most residents of the flooded regions were. Any massive aid to
rebuild would in most cases benefit the landlords. Furthermore, if she
was an _owner_ of a house, why is her insurance policy not covering the
rebuild? Oh, no insurance? Or no flood insurance? Tough titty.

Not the taxpayer's job to pay for what we she failed to plan for.

However, none of those things stopped Bush from using the opporitunity to
make it look like he was going to do exactly that.

Bush did far more than he was required to do. It's the New Orelans
politicians own fault their city is in ruins. This problem was a long
time in coming. The people of New Orleans knew it was just a matter of
time.

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