while the pilaf cooks... oder Mein Heimatstadt aber jetzt meine Schmerz!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/debatebuildsaroundrebuilding
don't go there unless you want something to make you sick.
article with commentary (warning, some language I might not normally use in a public post):
Debate builds around rebuilding
By Anne Rochell Konigsmark, USA TODAY
Wed Jan 11, 9:35 AM ET
Homeowners in New Orleans should be free to rebuild in every neighborhood, even those most severely flooded by Hurricane Katrina, says a commission proposing a recovery plan for the city.
this is very true! these are our fucking homes! this is where we lived! this is where we grew up for many of us! this is OUR city! you don't decide if we can or can't rebuil for us!
But that freedom might not last.
WTF? It better last.
In a report to be released Wednesday, Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission will recommend that rebuilding occur naturally and without government interference for a few months, according to Jeanne Nathan, a member of one of the panel's subcommittees. In that time, the commission predicts that residents will discover which neighborhoods can be revived.
good, without the gov't interfering!
"This is not in the city's hands," Nathan says. "No one is going to make decisions for anyone else. Decisions will be made jointly by residents, by business owners and by neighborhoods."
sounds great so far! That's the way it SHOULD be! That's the FUCKING LOGICAL THING TO DO!
If some neighborhoods show few signs of life after several months, the city could buy out the remaining residents.
again, wtf? meaning "You've done a great job, but your neighbours haven't, so we're going to fuck you up the ass with this legislation
The commission is banking on federal buyout legislation to pass soon. U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., has proposed a bill that would create a corporation to buy homes from residents who don't want to rebuild. The agency then would repair the homes and resell them.
of course he would be a republican. "Banking" is right, trying to make money off of the gov't FORCEFULLY taking away people's familial homes and property. At what rate doesn't matter, it's not right. ...repair the homes and resell them... buy low sell high, huh Mr. Baker? Nice game you got going with our homes.
About 80% of New Orleans flooded when levees around the city broke Aug. 29 after Hurricane Katrina struck. Water roof high surged through homes in neighborhoods such as Lakeview and the Lower 9th Ward, moving houses off their foundations and reducing some to sticks. In the weeks that followed, the city's population dropped from 462,000 to less than 200,000.
thus the PTSD, Lakeview is mein heim.
A debate has been raging for months about whether to allow residents to return to the most flood-prone areas of the city. A report issued in November by the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research group that champions innovative land-use policies, said the city should discourage development in the hardest-hit neighborhoods because city services would be spread too thin over sparsely populated areas.
LET THE CITIZENS DECIDE! THAT'S WHAT THIS GOV'T WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED ON!
The report was condemned by several City Council members who want to allow residents to rebuild anywhere they choose.
good to know some politicians have common sense.
"Some groups are talking about how easy it is to get rid of neighborhoods," City Councilman Oliver Thomas says. "And New Orleans is a place where if you're from out of town, people think you know what you're talking about."
ummm NO IT'S NOT A PLACE PRONE TO THINKING THAT! People from New Orleans don't like people coming in from out of town, much less change, much less someone from out of town trying to make our city change! Mr. Thomas doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Louisiana Recovery Authority, Gov. Kathleen Blanco's planning commission, has said the state will not release federal funds it controls to areas that are vulnerable to future flooding. The mayor's commission has to receive federal money through the governor's group.
the entire southern part of Louisiana is vulnurable to future flooding, so this is completely illogical. We need to recall Blanco!
"Our principles are to build smarter, safer and stronger," says Norman Francis, chairman of the state authority and president of Xavier University. While he insisted that rebuilding decisions "absolutely have to come from New Orleans," he added that the authority could withhold federal disaster funds from certain areas. "We reserve the right to ask questions," he says.
Decisions must come from New Orleans? sounds good. "...he added that the authority could withold federal disaster funds from certain areas. 'We reserve the right to ask questions,' he says." Ahh, so there's some double speak going on, I see. You say something that sounds great to the people then put in what sounds like a minor stipulation, but is what you plan to do. I see! "Ask questions" fine, "withold federal disaster funds" not fine and completely wrong.
Nathan and others predict that market forces will determine which neighborhoods repopulate. New flood maps from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, due in a few months, may make flood insurance prohibitively expensive and require homeowners to elevate their houses, a costly endeavor.
market forces? since when does capitalism have to do with any of this??? FEMA is a four letter word, you know. And they can make the insurance companies do whatever they want so that they can get the results they want. If they can't force the people out one way they will another. It's nothing but economic warfare on a severly damaged city, something much larger, more widespread, and with longer lasting direct impact than 9/11. And they don't care about the citizens!
Today's report will be the first in a series from the mayor's commission. The mayor will then decide whether to implement the recommendations. Others will address overhauling poorly performing schools, streamlining city government and rebuilding hospitals.
almost all the schools in New Orleans were performing poorly because they had no money and the school board was corrupt, not unlike any other state or city gov't agency. Streamlining city gov't? Let the city do that. The city meaning the people of the city, not Baton Rouge, not Washington DC, not a consultant, not a commission, not anyone else, the people! "...and rebuilding the hospitals." Well what a novel idea, considering that most of them took on so much water that they aren't functional any more and it's rather hard to run a city without them. WAIT! I've got a good idea! Let's wait and see which hospitals rebuild on their own, and if not enough of them do let's take their land and whatevers on it and build whatever we want on it, keep what we want and sell the rest! Sounds like a great idea to me! Guess I'm learning from what the gov't is giving an example of. Oh, and how nice to tack that on at the end to make it sound like they really care.
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all I have to say is this is wrong. I feel like I should be down in New Orleans fighting this, helping out. Yes, mostly for selfish reasons probably (my home, my family's homes, my friends' homes, my friends' families' homes, my places that I liked to go to, my history (well the history of me before the shift brought about by the PTSD), my memories, MY CITY. MEIN HEIMATSTADT! Mein Heimatstadt aber jetzt meine Schmerz!
don't go there unless you want something to make you sick.
article with commentary (warning, some language I might not normally use in a public post):
Debate builds around rebuilding
By Anne Rochell Konigsmark, USA TODAY
Wed Jan 11, 9:35 AM ET
Homeowners in New Orleans should be free to rebuild in every neighborhood, even those most severely flooded by Hurricane Katrina, says a commission proposing a recovery plan for the city.
this is very true! these are our fucking homes! this is where we lived! this is where we grew up for many of us! this is OUR city! you don't decide if we can or can't rebuil for us!
But that freedom might not last.
WTF? It better last.
In a report to be released Wednesday, Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission will recommend that rebuilding occur naturally and without government interference for a few months, according to Jeanne Nathan, a member of one of the panel's subcommittees. In that time, the commission predicts that residents will discover which neighborhoods can be revived.
good, without the gov't interfering!
"This is not in the city's hands," Nathan says. "No one is going to make decisions for anyone else. Decisions will be made jointly by residents, by business owners and by neighborhoods."
sounds great so far! That's the way it SHOULD be! That's the FUCKING LOGICAL THING TO DO!
If some neighborhoods show few signs of life after several months, the city could buy out the remaining residents.
again, wtf? meaning "You've done a great job, but your neighbours haven't, so we're going to fuck you up the ass with this legislation
The commission is banking on federal buyout legislation to pass soon. U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., has proposed a bill that would create a corporation to buy homes from residents who don't want to rebuild. The agency then would repair the homes and resell them.
of course he would be a republican. "Banking" is right, trying to make money off of the gov't FORCEFULLY taking away people's familial homes and property. At what rate doesn't matter, it's not right. ...repair the homes and resell them... buy low sell high, huh Mr. Baker? Nice game you got going with our homes.
About 80% of New Orleans flooded when levees around the city broke Aug. 29 after Hurricane Katrina struck. Water roof high surged through homes in neighborhoods such as Lakeview and the Lower 9th Ward, moving houses off their foundations and reducing some to sticks. In the weeks that followed, the city's population dropped from 462,000 to less than 200,000.
thus the PTSD, Lakeview is mein heim.
A debate has been raging for months about whether to allow residents to return to the most flood-prone areas of the city. A report issued in November by the Urban Land Institute, a non-profit research group that champions innovative land-use policies, said the city should discourage development in the hardest-hit neighborhoods because city services would be spread too thin over sparsely populated areas.
LET THE CITIZENS DECIDE! THAT'S WHAT THIS GOV'T WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED ON!
The report was condemned by several City Council members who want to allow residents to rebuild anywhere they choose.
good to know some politicians have common sense.
"Some groups are talking about how easy it is to get rid of neighborhoods," City Councilman Oliver Thomas says. "And New Orleans is a place where if you're from out of town, people think you know what you're talking about."
ummm NO IT'S NOT A PLACE PRONE TO THINKING THAT! People from New Orleans don't like people coming in from out of town, much less change, much less someone from out of town trying to make our city change! Mr. Thomas doesn't know what he's talking about.
The Louisiana Recovery Authority, Gov. Kathleen Blanco's planning commission, has said the state will not release federal funds it controls to areas that are vulnerable to future flooding. The mayor's commission has to receive federal money through the governor's group.
the entire southern part of Louisiana is vulnurable to future flooding, so this is completely illogical. We need to recall Blanco!
"Our principles are to build smarter, safer and stronger," says Norman Francis, chairman of the state authority and president of Xavier University. While he insisted that rebuilding decisions "absolutely have to come from New Orleans," he added that the authority could withhold federal disaster funds from certain areas. "We reserve the right to ask questions," he says.
Decisions must come from New Orleans? sounds good. "...he added that the authority could withold federal disaster funds from certain areas. 'We reserve the right to ask questions,' he says." Ahh, so there's some double speak going on, I see. You say something that sounds great to the people then put in what sounds like a minor stipulation, but is what you plan to do. I see! "Ask questions" fine, "withold federal disaster funds" not fine and completely wrong.
Nathan and others predict that market forces will determine which neighborhoods repopulate. New flood maps from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, due in a few months, may make flood insurance prohibitively expensive and require homeowners to elevate their houses, a costly endeavor.
market forces? since when does capitalism have to do with any of this??? FEMA is a four letter word, you know. And they can make the insurance companies do whatever they want so that they can get the results they want. If they can't force the people out one way they will another. It's nothing but economic warfare on a severly damaged city, something much larger, more widespread, and with longer lasting direct impact than 9/11. And they don't care about the citizens!
Today's report will be the first in a series from the mayor's commission. The mayor will then decide whether to implement the recommendations. Others will address overhauling poorly performing schools, streamlining city government and rebuilding hospitals.
almost all the schools in New Orleans were performing poorly because they had no money and the school board was corrupt, not unlike any other state or city gov't agency. Streamlining city gov't? Let the city do that. The city meaning the people of the city, not Baton Rouge, not Washington DC, not a consultant, not a commission, not anyone else, the people! "...and rebuilding the hospitals." Well what a novel idea, considering that most of them took on so much water that they aren't functional any more and it's rather hard to run a city without them. WAIT! I've got a good idea! Let's wait and see which hospitals rebuild on their own, and if not enough of them do let's take their land and whatevers on it and build whatever we want on it, keep what we want and sell the rest! Sounds like a great idea to me! Guess I'm learning from what the gov't is giving an example of. Oh, and how nice to tack that on at the end to make it sound like they really care.
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all I have to say is this is wrong. I feel like I should be down in New Orleans fighting this, helping out. Yes, mostly for selfish reasons probably (my home, my family's homes, my friends' homes, my friends' families' homes, my places that I liked to go to, my history (well the history of me before the shift brought about by the PTSD), my memories, MY CITY. MEIN HEIMATSTADT! Mein Heimatstadt aber jetzt meine Schmerz!