So this city known as new orleans was established hundreds of years ago on the mouth of the mississippi river as a trade port. Since then it expanded so far that in order to continue expanding towards the water, levy's were built to hold back water and essentially create a sea world for low-income housing.
Well good old mother nature finally got its way last year when a Hurricane (known to come up the gulf) destroyed the part of the city which was built underwater to begin with.
A similar situation happened to the city of Galveston (probably not spelled correctly) in texas. The city, which was quite a popular tourist attraction, was wiped out by a hurricane. But the bright people in galveston had this great idea -they moved! If hurricanes hit where your living, don't build things there!
If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen! ITs a proven way to solve a problem called greyhound therapy.
Don't waste government funds insisting that they rebuild your underwater home. Move!
Now you people are going to give me some emotional speach about sticking it out through and through and how they deserve to waste my money rebuilding their homes.
I say its just one more way the government's dumping mroe money down the toilet.
A lot of that rebuilding is coming from volunteer groups all over the country. It's not all government funded.
Alaska is hit with way below freezing temperatures (It went to -84 F while I was there) and people have to shovel snow off their roofs daily to keep them from caving in.
Nevada's water source is a man-made lake because there's, pretty much, no water in Nevada.
I suppose all those people should go ahead and move as well. The area is, indeed, uninhabitable, and everyone would be better off if the government was funding important things, rather than Hoover Dam and some stupid pipeline.
People live in New Orleans and, surely, you can find something else to be bitter about. If you can't take the heat of the government actually using it's funds to help its people, perhaps you'd be happier in another kitchen.
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Yea actually, THe difference is people in alaska don't complain that its cold and ask the government to build them a giant heater. On the other hand people in the destroyed area of new orleans complain that its underwater and are pressuring the government into building a stupid levy. Its sop-story politics at work. The government is supposed to use its funds to assist people, defend our borders, and enforce the law, not to rebuild atlantis. might as well travel out thirty miles into the atlantic and build a city there too.
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