Reply #28: er, if they are alive in space and time, clearly they've gone elsewhere

[pitohui]

and they should stay there

the poorest of the poor should not be kidded along and told that the city is going to be a fit place for them to return any time soon, it will be years, or decades more probably

the public health care system was completely destroyed

public housing seriously impacted

public schools destroyed, no overtime for cops, hell, no housing for cops who were just turned out of the cruise ship where many were quartered

i would not tell the poorest and most vulnerable that new orleans is going to be a fit place for them to live any time soon, in the case of the elderly, it won't be safe for them to live here again in their lifetimes for many of them

everyone who lives in new orleans needs to be wealthy enough to own and operate a car, and healthy enough to be able to drive, so they can evacuate in event of another hurricane, this atlantic hurricane cycle is predicted to last another 10-50 years

to suggest that we put the oldest and the poorest, the most vulnerable of our population, back into this area is irresponsible -- and to do it for imagined political advantage is just pure-dee evil and a tad too rovian for my taste

they live now on whatever shore they have washed up safely, new orleans won't be safe for the vulnerable for many year

it is cruel to tell them otherwise, hell, it's immoral

everything can't be about scrabbling for votes, sometimes you just have to do the right thing and to hell with the votes, a la lbj and civil rights but i suppose you don't much care for him either, a bit too practical i suppose


NO ONE of us asked to leave, but those of us who wanted to and were sufficiently motivated came back, all else is just kidding ourselves