Posted by
Brian Peters on Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:29:22 PM
Well, it seems that Ray Nagin and others within the City of New Orleans think that the American tax payers 'owes' them. To a tune of 77 Billion....yes Billion..dollars. You owe dear reader, I owe them. The lawsuit is naming the Army Corps of Engineers as the defendent. But who really pays the ACE it's wages....you do...Mr./Mrs./Miss Average American with your tax dollars.
No what I"ve learned over the years is that New Orleans is below sea level, which in common sense parlay means, it has the very real potential to flood. What I"ve also heard is that those levees were old and needed rebuilding and replacement. That is what, I, an outsider, knew.
What we as a Nation have heard over and over is that Lousiana is synonomous with corruption at the political level. What we as a Nation witnessed is that Lousiana at the political level, is incompetent.
Now greed, pure and simple greed, is driving a law suit that is going to try to suck the tax payers money into private personal banking accounts for those same corrupt and incompetent lawyers and politicians. This is the easy thing for them to do..sue America. The hard thing would be to role up the sleeves and do the work that needs to be done themselves as a City and State.
The best cartoon which I am unable to locate at the moment, is the one of New Orleans sitting in a toilet bowl, which pretty much says it all about the whole situation.
New Orleans had the chance to build a truely 'new' and modern city, but blew it. They could have built a new city at a level 'above sea level' and kept the old city for industrial uses only. So now, New Orleans and it's citizens have only themselves to blame when once again, the sea shall rise and claim the land that is 'below' it's own level.
But as this lawsuit goes forth, Mayor Nagin and the entire group of plantiffs should have to pay the court especially after the time and money on this waste of time is spent.