[danjarch]

Not to pick a fight, but there was plenty of action. We went through three major hurricanes here in central Florida. It wasn't fema out on the streets directing traffic the next day. It was the local police. We also had roving bands of vigilante chainsaw gangs clearing the streets of debris, not looting the stores. There are plenty of good people in NOLA but the crime rate and poverty rate was already out of sight before Katrina. There has been little real effort on the part of New Orleans over the past couple of decades to fix it's problems. Now I'm supposed to come in and bail them out. Forget it. There isn't going to be any real effort to fix New Orleans. They're overwhelmingly Democrat and poor. That means the Republicans aren't going to waste their time playing down there. Neither are the Democrats, they already got the vote. They just well Katrina every once and awhile to keep you guys going. As far as Business is concerned, whats the point of dumping massive amount of capital into a city with poor work ethics, low education and high crime. Its a recipe for bankruptcy. Do you really see some one putting a factory or biomedical research facility center there. My opinion is to build up the industrial areas that are current profitable and bulldoze the rest of the city. Then if some one wants to spend their money there so be it, but quit taken mine.