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Posted by Glenn on December 14, 2006, 10:59 am
I have a different view on construction workers in New Orleans. I
feel we should bring several crews of dynamite experts and place
them on the levies. The ocean wants it back and you know it is
going to win so lets help it a little.
Why are we tax payers rebuilding their shacks with nice new houses
(for them to trash) when if a guy in western Kansas has his house
blown down, he gets nothing. I believe that's why we have
insurance.
>
> 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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