Just Leave

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Professor S

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197665,00.html

Lets see... New Orleans is already under the waterline and needs levies to keep from flooding, its half destroyed from a hurricane and they are vulnerable to even more disasters, and the city is sinking more than an inch a year in some places...

JUST LEAVE. GET OUT. RELOCATE. Even wild animals are smart enough to run to high ground, why can't we?

What pisses me off the most about this, is the way people have treated the very, very few public figures that have suggested that maybe it's not such a good idea to rebuild the city. I had and continue to hold very little sympathy for a good percentage of the residents. Obviously there were many, many people who were just too poor to pack up and move somewhere else, but there were thousands who could have and didn't.

Either way, I don't much like the idea of any donated funds going to rebuild the city in its present location. Unless someone wants to pay to truck in several millon tons of topsoil to raise the city above sea level, it shouldn't be rebuilt where it is, and had damn well not be the american taxpayer who has to pay to bring in the dirt.