Re: OT: What to Do With New Orleans

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:05:36 -0500, tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx (Brent
P) wrote:

In article <1150222427.294662.12980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Head wrote:

Brent P wrote:

This has to do with the overall prosperity of the area, which is definitely the
government's business. One of its purposes is to promote it.

In practical terms that means that government does the bidding of those who
do the best in bribery. Those who bribe government best get anyone's land
they desire.

So, practically, this area of NO is going to take the 25 years or so
that is predicted in order to sort out what's going to get used to good
purpose and what is not. I was just interested in hastening that
along.

By streamlining the corruption in a corrupt city. Lovely.

OK, fine, I don't much care for emminent domain, either.

Sooo... without it, your task is to rebuild the flooded out areas, without
screwing the property owners in some _other_ way, and _not_ have them
rebuilding residentailly (izzat a word?) in the flood zone and requiring
superhuman efforts to evacuated them during the next 25 hurricanes...

So, lets hear it, whatcha gonna do that'll work and still not screw the
property owners? No fair demonizing them and declaring they deserve some kind
of screwing 'cuz they built there. It was legal to build there, everyone else
was doing it, and there's supposed to be these levees, see...

Dave Head

Dave Head
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