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Friday, September 30, 2005

Time To Move On...Hard Choices

Or, No to NO

(a post I made elsewhere on 9/18)

It's had a great run, this unique city of the U.S.
A great city of cusine, drink, voodoo, jazz and the Mardi Gras.

A city which has celebrated Lafayette and the French contributions to our democracy.

A city, amazingly, living its life below sea level.

But now, there has been a call to restore it, and equally demolished cities along the Gulf Coast even as its denizens have been flung to far away cities, many of them to make their lives anew in other locations. Denizens who, smartly, have no desire to expose themselves to the potential of another hurricane.

It's not "politically correct" to say that we should re-consider building this undersea city which has been drown, not just by a hurricane, or a broken levee...but by what became a toxic sludge, forming one of the biggest toxic waste sites in the country.

But our President has said we will spare no expense to revive this city.

It seems a lot like a desperate family asking the doctors to spare no expense in reviving their loved one who has suffered a massive heart attack, is in an unrecoverable coma, and latest tests have shown that the loved one is brain dead.

We complain, in our burdened-healthcare system about such wasteful expenditures.

Why, then, when we are already facing a budget deficit that has nearly signed away our birthright to China, as she keeps our economy afloat by
buying our bonds--do we think such heroic measures are appropriate for this below-marine level area?

The talk is of a national debt of over 2 trillion dollars. That means that each tiny, defenseless baby is born into a debt of over $7,000.

And we're not even talking about the issues of the aging population, medicare drug coverage, future of social security, the cost of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Is the life of one city worth the lowering of the quality of life of the rest of the nation?

I realize I'm skimming over a number of issues (e.g., other Gulf Coast cities other than New Orleans.), but I believe those issues are inconsequential compared to the attempt to detoxify and elevate the sprawling city that was New Orleans, and what the effect of writing what is essentially a blank check to do so.

I'm wondering if there are others here that feel similarly. Because, if you are, we have a unique skill that can contribute to creating a swell of emotion, information and opinion that will make it possible to for parents and grandparents not to sigh and worry what the future holds for their progeny.

Comments?

Judy

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Someone commented that, perhaps, the answer would be to move NO a few miles inland. I don't know the geography down thataway, so I have no idea if this is a feasible idea.

Hopefully, the arrival and move thru the NO of hurricane Rita brings home to at least a few more the futility of raising NO on its current grounds.

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