Bennett on New Orleans
The non-profit, non-partisan group levees.org released a Black & Gold list this week, designed to identify those politicians who have helped New Orleans recover from the damage done by Hurricane Katrina and those who have added to the city's woes.
Black-listed was Utah's Sen. Bob Bennett, for questioning the wisdom of rebuilding parts of New Orleans.
"I'm happy to appropriate money to help people who are in trouble," Bennett said in March. "But if we're going to appropriate money and then rebuild in a place that the laws of physics say doesn't make sense for people to live in -- building a city 10 feet below sea level does not strike me as inherently, basically a good idea."
The senator took a fair amount of heat at the time of his comment.
But I got to tag along with the senator on a trip to New Orleans in July and sat in on a meeting with the influential recovery organization, Women of the Storm, who basically espoused the same viewpoint.
Donna Fraiche, a member of Women of the Storm and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which is spearheading the state's recovery efforts, said Louisiana owes it to taxpayers not to rebuild the city the way it was built in the past. She said the group is supporting new building standards to help New Orleans weather a future hurricane and flooding, and that might mean some areas are rebuilt differently or aren't rebuilt at all.
Bennett felt vindicated by the group's stance.
"By no means do I support letting it wash away and forget it," Bennett said. "There may be places that should not be rebuilt. Don't just automatically assume that everything that was has to be rebuilt the same way."
-- Robert Gehrke
Black-listed was Utah's Sen. Bob Bennett, for questioning the wisdom of rebuilding parts of New Orleans.
"I'm happy to appropriate money to help people who are in trouble," Bennett said in March. "But if we're going to appropriate money and then rebuild in a place that the laws of physics say doesn't make sense for people to live in -- building a city 10 feet below sea level does not strike me as inherently, basically a good idea."
The senator took a fair amount of heat at the time of his comment.
But I got to tag along with the senator on a trip to New Orleans in July and sat in on a meeting with the influential recovery organization, Women of the Storm, who basically espoused the same viewpoint.
Donna Fraiche, a member of Women of the Storm and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, which is spearheading the state's recovery efforts, said Louisiana owes it to taxpayers not to rebuild the city the way it was built in the past. She said the group is supporting new building standards to help New Orleans weather a future hurricane and flooding, and that might mean some areas are rebuilt differently or aren't rebuilt at all.
Bennett felt vindicated by the group's stance.
"By no means do I support letting it wash away and forget it," Bennett said. "There may be places that should not be rebuilt. Don't just automatically assume that everything that was has to be rebuilt the same way."
-- Robert Gehrke
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2 Comments:
Let's remember to have the neocons who got us into the irak war, at israeli's direction, arrested and executed if guilty. That goes double for the media collaborators.
Simply kicking out the republicans is not enough. If the creeps are allowed to fester any longer the body politic could become fully diseased.
Who provided the faked WMD intel? This is the most pressing question of our day and the mediafags won 't touch it. Fire them all. Local ownership only of broadcast media. No more chains like clear channel.
The current monpoly media IS the problem.
Right on. I agree completely. I say turn the worst ones over to the Hague for war crimes trials.
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