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re: Nola Article..New Orleans losing its soul
Posted on 8/28/19 at 9:41 am to RougeDawg
Posted on 8/28/19 at 9:41 am to RougeDawg
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New Orleans WAS one of the richest cities in the country for most of it's existence.
Before the first Landrieu took office 50 years ago, New Orleans was larger than cities like Atlanta, Miami, Nashville and Charlotte. New Orleans was the economic capital of the South. Now we are not one of the 50 largest cities in the country. New Orleans is not even in the top half of the STATE in median household income.
Someone earlier said Katrina hurt New Orleans and that is a canard. Katrina simply exposed the problems as much as it hurt us. We had a CHANCE after Katrina but decided to rebuild for the moochers instead of the producers.
This post was edited on 8/28/19 at 9:42 am
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Posted on 8/28/19 at 10:01 am to Anaximander
quote:and we have a winner it also stated to fall rapidly with the rapid decline of public education
Before the first Landrieu took office 50 years ago, New Orleans was larger than cities like Atlanta, Miami, Nashville and Charlotte. New Orleans was the economic capital of the South. Now we are not one of the 50 largest cities in the country. New Orleans is not even in the top half of the STATE in median household income.
Someone earlier said Katrina hurt New Orleans and that is a canard. Katrina simply exposed the problems as much as it hurt us. We had a CHANCE after Katrina but decided to rebuild for the moochers instead of the producers.
Posted on 8/28/19 at 11:37 am to Anaximander
Post Katrina we had a real opportunity to modernize (as much as you can here) and address most of our underlying problems. There was widespread optimism across the city, along with an influx of federal money and people from around the country, willing to work and help. Education had a blank slate and was test lab for the school choice movement. We had funding to make repairs to infrastructure that had been neglected for 50 years.
Instead we neutered our police department, misappropriated funding, and aligned government with the same failed principles as before. The city is overrun with criminals and vagrants. Public services are extremely mismanaged and at times, unavailable. Residents are taxed at an obscenely disproportionate rate. Our insurance rates are absurd. It now floods when you get more than 2 " of rain in an hour. Public education is still failing. The new airport is a disaster. Very few vote or care to vote (or speak up about the malpractice being committed by our elected officials).
You have to be crazy to live here.
Instead we neutered our police department, misappropriated funding, and aligned government with the same failed principles as before. The city is overrun with criminals and vagrants. Public services are extremely mismanaged and at times, unavailable. Residents are taxed at an obscenely disproportionate rate. Our insurance rates are absurd. It now floods when you get more than 2 " of rain in an hour. Public education is still failing. The new airport is a disaster. Very few vote or care to vote (or speak up about the malpractice being committed by our elected officials).
You have to be crazy to live here.
This post was edited on 8/28/19 at 11:40 am
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