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Oct 1st, 2005 at 8:47 am by Susie

Mary Landrieu rather brilliantly tells the Washington Post editorial board where to stick it. [Via The Sideshow .]

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on 01 Oct 2005 at 9:07 am1Salmo

The Washington Post accurately reflects the “conventional wisdom” of Washington’s elites (as it usually does), which in this instance is that the Gulf Coast’s reconstruction must be done from inside the Beltway. Landrieu is right, of course, but probably powerless to translate her understanding into policy. After all, the neo-con fantasies and the potential for huge crony capitalist payoffs will overcome almost any objection the Gulf Coast politicians could mount, even if they were united.
on 01 Oct 2005 at 10:39 am2seawitch

Dou you really think Louisiana needs the equivalent of $50,000.00 for each citizen of that state? I don’t. I am from Mississippi and have watched with amusement, disgust, and head shaking the rampent corruption in that state. They have used money from the federal government earmarked for improving the levee system on such things as studies for bridges.

So where do you think the $250 billion would go? Maybe in Congressman Livingstone pockets? He was already under federal investigation before Katrina. The levee board? They are also ubder investigation. The mayor of New Orleans? Who couldn’t even use busses to evacuate the citizens of New Orleans.

Louisiana needs help as does Mississippi in order to recover but the amount requested by the Louisiana congressional delegation is outrageous.
on 01 Oct 2005 at 10:42 am3KB

The Washington Post is right on the money when it comes to Louisiana–literally. Landrieu simply covers for her Louisiana kin and cronies who have a well-deserved reputation as one of the most corrupt state and urban political cultures in the U.S. Anyone who says that Louisiana has not been given enough money over the past three decades to prepare for this type of disaster is naive to say the least–it is a question of how it was spent by local officials. More accurately, how it was not spent. Help the displaced people of Lousiana? Yes. Give my tax dollars to Louisiana and New Orleans with cart blanche? Heck no. Landrieu says “Louisiana will be rebuilt by Louisianians. New Orleans will be rebuilt by New Orleanians.” Great, let them use their own money.
on 01 Oct 2005 at 1:17 pm4serial catowner

So basically we’re going to end up with the worst of both worlds- an open-ended ‘rebuilding’ boondoggle coupled to a strong effort to replace the real people of New Orleans with “whiter” surrogates. IOW, the new New Orleans will be to the old as Frontierland is to the American west.

It’s no secret to me that Louisiana is corrupt. If it wasn’t , the oil and gas companies would have paid enough taxes to educate the citizens, and to provide a functional city government. Naturally, when it reached the point where a black mayor had to run as a Democrat, New Orleans became expendable, a place that had to be destroyed in order to save it.

This is the kind of thing that makes or breaks would-be empires. Either you see the potential of connecting one of the world’s great river systems with international commerce, and make that a pearl of your empire- or you don’t. Hell, Venice didn’t even have a river, but they saw the potential and made it work.

Maybe America just isn’t ready to be an empire. Of any kind.
on 01 Oct 2005 at 4:40 pm5rose

God forbid that any money go to the corrupt people of LA, far better that it go to the corrupt people of DC. This makes sense to who?
on 03 Oct 2005 at 3:24 pm6mark

Thanks Rose. And by the way, doesnt it seem like calling everyone in Louisiana is corrupt is a blanket statement. You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.

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