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Rebuilding New Orleans! Barry Keller 12-13-2006
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Posted by Barry Keller on December 13, 2006, 3:23 pm
Why can't anyone left or right organize the construction workers who are
laid off about three or four months every year due to cold weather and
get them down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and rebuild the place?
Does anyone know?


Posted by bill allemann on December 13, 2006, 6:09 pm
because it's a shithole??

I wouldn't risk my health working there.

> Why can't anyone left or right organize the construction workers who are
> laid off about three or four months every year due to cold weather and
> get them down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and rebuild the place?
> Does anyone know?
>



Posted by SteveF on December 13, 2006, 6:27 pm

> Why can't anyone left or right organize the construction workers who are
> laid off about three or four months every year due to cold weather and
> get them down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and rebuild the place?
> Does anyone know?
>

Where is it that you think construction workers are sitting around at home
watching TV for four months out of the year?

Steve.



Posted by marson on December 13, 2006, 8:19 pm

SteveF wrote:
> > Why can't anyone left or right organize the construction workers who are
> > laid off about three or four months every year due to cold weather and
> > get them down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and rebuild the place?
> > Does anyone know?
> >
>
>winter has gotten to be less and less of a factor here in the frozen north.
Last year we poured two slab on grade houses on january 10 and commenced framing
days later. I haven't been laid off in the winter in 10 years.


Posted by on December 14, 2006, 9:31 am

Barry Keller wrote:
> Why can't anyone left or right organize the construction workers who are
> laid off about three or four months every year due to cold weather and
> get them down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and rebuild the place?
> Does anyone know?

For one, the threat of this event happening again in this area is
virtually guaranteed. No one really confronts this issue head on in
public. For two, it is, aside from the oil, which has been fixed or
rebuilt, a very poor area which can be ignored and no one of eliteness
will be bothered at any time about it. Three, most of these areas are
abandoned of the people which have restarted life away from there. I
could go on...

Each of these could be considered excuses, but I can tell you that from
the vantage point of where I live, which is near Mobile and minutes
from the bay, the future is extremely uncertain. Owning water front
property is a huge risk. If you had heard anything about what happened
to the people along the water in Mississippi then you would have some
idea. More than 9 out of 10 affected homeowners received no insurance
coverage. Most had been paying these premiums for over 20yrs and were
in a sense given the finger and told to see your great grandkids in
court. Mind you these same insurance companies took many billions in
profit this last year. We all know how the story goes. The saddest part
is that there are actual people affected in real ways. All that needed
be done was to pay the customer and deny further coverage. I guarantee
that would have been the least painful for all parites. Instead, the
toll wll be paid by the taxpayer and neighbor and samaritan.

Take a ride along the coastline, you'll find plenty for sale. The last
bubble we had here along the beach was recent. Old even boring condos
were going for a million dollars. After the panic, people may have (I
have no confirmed reporting or evidence) realized that they could keep
their millions of dollars and just rent the box when in town. At an
averaged 600 a week for a condo, a million would last thirty years. Not
to mention that a million would make you a million in thirty years.
Nevertheless, condos are still being built like wildfire, locals are
being evicted due to the conversion from residential to commercial and
the fact that your friendly neighborhood insurance carrier parties
while you drown. On and on....

Lest we forget that the waters are rising for at least the next hundred
years guaranteed. If we halt CO2 tomorrow, calendar yourself in for
about year 2112 for a piece of beachfront prop. Im guessing 50 to 80
feet higher than the current sea level. So New Orleans as we knew it
will become Old Orleans soon..

Definately more serious than one would think.
Follow some of these links, too many to list..

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=katrina+new+orleans&search=Search


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