John’s Blog-o-Rama

Found a nice blog entry on the TR blog blog today which that asks if New Orleans should be rebuilt. I have been asking myself the same question for the last few days, and the conclusion I have come to is a resounding NO. It’s going to cost HUGE sums of money to pump out New Orleans, tear down all of the flooded buildings, rebuild all of the buildings, repair all of the levees, and try to make sure this doesn’t happen again. And the city will STILL be ten feet below sea level, and sinking 1 inch per year. I just don’t see the point of reconstruction when it’s likely the same thing will just happen again. Why not just use all that money to expand other Louisiana cities that won’t be destroyed by the next hurricane that comes by? I understand that New Orleans has a lot of history, but in the long term economically, I just don’t see a payoff.