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Trying to explain corruption in New Orleans to my OOS family
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:08 pm
Lived here for 3 years now. Overall I’m young with no kids so it affects my life minimally but my family from a very nice and well run town are totally blown to hear about the following issues that are so rampant:
Sewage and water board having a federal lien
Mayor having a federal lien
Catch basins having contracts but not getting cleaned
Inspectors going home for the day instead of inspecting construction sites
The list goes on. They literally could not wrap their heads around it. My brother was asking how the federal government hasn’t essentially eviscerated the NOLA city government and started it totally over.
Sewage and water board having a federal lien
Mayor having a federal lien
Catch basins having contracts but not getting cleaned
Inspectors going home for the day instead of inspecting construction sites
The list goes on. They literally could not wrap their heads around it. My brother was asking how the federal government hasn’t essentially eviscerated the NOLA city government and started it totally over.
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Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:09 pm to jlovel7
Tell em about brake tags!
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:10 pm to jlovel7
quote:Catch basins are getting cleaned. The mains and laterals that they feed aren’t, so it’s pointless.
Catch basins having contracts but not getting cleaned
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:12 pm to jlovel7
Does your family live in Pleasantville?
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:13 pm to jlovel7
Nothing is different than it’s ever been in NO, except less Yellow Fever
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:14 pm to jlovel7
quote:
Lived here for 3 years now. Overall I’m young with no kids so it affects my life minimally but my family from a very nice and well run town are totally blown to hear about the following issues that are so rampant:
Sewage and water board having a federal lien
Mayor having a federal lien
Catch basins having contracts but not getting cleaned
Inspectors going home for the day instead of inspecting construction sites
The list goes on. They literally could not wrap their heads around it. My brother was asking how the federal government hasn’t essentially eviscerated the NOLA city government and started it totally over.
They probably cant wrap their heads around it because it's not corruption...its incompetence.
Big difference and you should learn the meanings of the the 2
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:15 pm to jlovel7
Expand the discussion to include the whole state while you are at it
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:16 pm to jlovel7
I'm at the hotel monteleone in line to check in at about 11:00 in the morning. Guy in front of me says to the girl at the desk "I just flew in from LA, I really want to shower before the game, can you let me into my room?" (It's the Saints Rams game). She says sorry sir can't let you into your room until 3:00. Guy says that's no good, I just came in from LA, can I please get in my room. Girl says sorry, can't do it. Guy reaches into his pocket, pulls out a $100 bill. Says come on, I just flew in from LA. I just want to shower. She says "just one moment sir." Goes back to talk to her girlfriend for a minute. Comes back and says "Believe it or not something just opened up." Got damn if that baw didn't get taken straight to his room.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:17 pm to jlovel7
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but my family from a very nice and well run town
those little "very nice and well run towns" are the most corrupt.... quote:
Catch basins having contracts but not getting cleaned
yes they are
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The list goes on
go on....
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:17 pm to jlovel7
It's like if you put toddlers in charge of 400k people.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:31 pm to jlovel7
You don’t know nothing 3 years
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:42 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:
it's not corruption...its incompetence.
Well, New Orleans has both, so...
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:43 pm to LSUBFA83
quote:
Well, New Orleans has both, so...
Used to be a hell of a lot more corrupt than it is now.
That goes for the whole state
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:44 pm to jlovel7
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from a very nice and well run town
Sweden?
Posted on 8/17/20 at 5:45 pm to jlovel7
Chocolate City, if the chocolate is actually shite
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:02 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:
They probably cant wrap their heads around it because it's not corruption...its incompetence.
Big difference and you should learn the meanings of the the 2
Truth.
Now try to get liquor, gaming, or a nightclub permit. Then you need to pay the mob either directly or indirectly.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:04 pm to jlovel7
New Orleans is what happens when everyone that normally challenges progressive ideology moves away.
Posted on 8/17/20 at 6:24 pm to jlovel7
Two words...Chocolate City
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