Where are we supposed to stop….
August 29th, 2006
New Orleans a year after Katrina, and most neighborhoods are still more horror than home. I ask the question, though, as to what we should do.
Is it our responsibility to go into, say, the Lower Ninth Ward, which was a slum-like hell-hole of crime and poverty, and REBUILD it so it can remain a hell-hole of crime and poverty? And should we do this KNOEING FULL WELL that it’s one of the lowest spots inside the city, well below sea level and therefore highly likely to flood again at the least provocation? All so we can say we preserved a quaint neighborhood?
Really, folks! Is this what we’re supposed to do? Pay a lot of money to bring people back to a location so they can live off the government dole in the surroundings of their choice? Or should we just take the pragmatic approach and say, “Hey! I’m paying for you. You’ll at least live where I can support your sorry a** the least expensively.” It will cost millions to restore some of those New Orleans neighborhoods and I’ll tell you, form the standpoint of what the return on investment is, it’s just not worth it.
Don’t give me that crap about “we may be repressing the next Einstein.” We’re more likely repressing the next rap start or local drug lord. In a city struggling with its finances already, why should we be so intent on burdening a straining system just to return a bunch of people who were little more than a drag on the system in the first place?
Okay. I’ll grant you the answer: Thousands of democratic votes. But that’s about all.
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