Broke California OKs funding for high-speed rail line

[ELVIS]

So Nurse Presley, I guess it's OK if your state invests in infrastructure, just not the Collieforneeans?

It's ok for any state to invest in infrastructure if it's within their budget, but California ran out of any sort of responsible budget years ago...

Louisiana has jobs. South Louisiana has less than 5% unemployment with some areas as low as 3.9%

Bobby Jindal does a very good job of attracting business to the state and the recovery following Katrina and the oil spill has been exemplary...

Our Charity hospital system is not the best, but it's also not the worst by far...

Louisiana could soon become of the model of how to run a state...

[Seshmeister]

This is a place where dead bodies lay for weeks?

Billions of dollars spent but 7 years on parts of New Orleans still look like this?



Obviously you know more than me about this but an outsider perception is that this is not a place to even visit at the moment never mind replicate.

[gbranton]

Obviously you know more than me about this but an outsider perception is that this is not a place to even visit at the moment never mind replicate.

I was just in New Orleans twice last week. I drove all around town, including deep into neighborhoods to visit Domilise's for po boys and into the Ninth Ward to eat at The Joint, not just the tourist traps and to my eye New Orleans looks to be recovering well. Plenty of great places to go, see music and eat in downtown NOLA.

As for that photo above, there are plenty of areas in places like Detroit that look EXACTLY like that which HAVEN'T been hit by the century's worst natural disaster.

[Satan]

I was just in New Orleans twice last week. I drove all around town, including deep into neighborhoods to visit Domilise's for po boys and into the Ninth Ward to eat at The Joint, not just the tourist traps and to my eye New Orleans looks to be recovering well. Plenty of great places to go, see music and eat in downtown NOLA.

As for that photo above, there are plenty of areas in places like Detroit that look EXACTLY like that which HAVEN'T been hit by the century's worst natural disaster.

The disaster in Detroit was entirely man made. The disaster in New Orleans only partially so

[gbranton]

The disaster in Detroit was entirely man made. The disaster in New Orleans only partially so

Sadly in both cases that is true. I was traveling through NOLA the summer before Katrina listening to 870AM and they were talking about the results of a hurricane conference that had just taken place in the city and they described exactly what later happened.......EXACTLY. In what later became chilling detail. The local and state governments KNEW. And they didn't have a plan. They should have been held accountable in a court of law.

Post number 1000!

[Seshmeister]

My understanding is that it wasn't a natural disaster at all, it was caused by a massively disgraceful bit of engineering by a bunch of fucks at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who should be prosecuted for manslaughter.

[ELVIS]

It is true that they knew exactly what would happen since the 60s and Louisiana had nothing but corrupt politicians...

But now the state, new Orleans and baton rouge have much more responsible government than they ever had in the past...

Many people have been put behind bars and they are working their way up to Ray Nagin...


Sent from my iPhone, bitches!

[ELVIS]

My understanding is that it wasn't a natural disaster at all, it was caused by a massively disgraceful bit of engineering by a bunch of fucks at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who should be prosecuted for manslaughter.

That's true as well...


Sent from my iPhone, bitches!

[gbranton]

Many people have been put behind bars and they are working their way up to Ray Nagin...

Yep, or working their way down, as it were. The headline on my complimentary newspaper the other morning was about that.