Mark my words, NO will be gentrified and it's residents rejected

[DainBramaged]

forever. The Bush cronies will make the rebuilt city un-affordable for the people who once lived there. The low income housing will disappear, and rich white people (mostly Thuglicans) will flock to the city for it's newborn kitsch. And the African-Americans who suffered while the white man fled of their own means will be lost to the remaining slums of this country, without the chance to recover. They will be forgotten, they will become a "burden" to white America, and they will be castigated for the crime of being trapped in poverty.

Fuck the Reich-wing, and the Mis-administration that has tried to confuse and deceive the country. May their hell be eternal pain as suffered by those who never escaped the hell in New Orleans.

[mattclearing]

1. Of course it will.

These people will never be able to afford the rent when the new luxury condos open up.

Did you see that Halliburton already has a cleanup contract? That didn't take long...almost happened before the federal response.

[Igel]

22. For navy facilities.

I tend to think that Halliburton has standing pre-approved contracts for this. RFBs for contingencies like this go out every few years, few companies can actually bid because of the requirements.

But Halliburton isn't cleaning up the 9th ward.

[Turbineguy]

2. Yeah, but

they'll hire one of their own to "fix" the dikes.

[cmd]

3. Gated communities, of course

A special section will be set up for the help.

[DainBramaged]

8. I remember ( yesterday) a talking head saying most of the

survivors worked for the riverboat casinos in some form or the other and the 30th was the day they got their paychecks (can anyone verify this?). And that they ALL worked for minimum wage while the tourists gambled. I wish I could find that bit of TV. And I wish now that I had recorded every minute on MSNBC and CNN since Monday, but work and family prevented me from doing so.

[cmd]

10. I saw a woman say that today was her payday.

She then asked just where she should go to pick it up. Yes, most of the area residents worked for the casinos.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I think that's a given.

:-(

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[markus]

6. Over all of our dead bodies

[durablend]

11. He's working overtime to accomplish that, fear not

[ramapo]

7. Hey that's my conspiracy theory

I posted, mostly in jest, my twisted conspiracy theory on Thursday. The Bush plan was to let NO flood out, get rid of the lower and mid class residents, and rebuild as a gambling/entertainment/resort mecca gated community. Tax breaks provided to all who build or live there as long as your income is above a level TBD (250K?).

[phusion]

9. Typical American response

Take something "indigenous" -- here, the cultural wealth of an entire city of Southern African Americans (i.e. Jazz, voodoo and everything else uniquely NOLA) -- and turn it into a marketing opportunity so some upper middle class family can have a "New Orleans experience". And don't forget to displace the original community so they don't get in the way.

I would not be surprised.

[nookiemonster]

12. You're right.

It's so Stepford and so fucking wrong.

But it is the plan, I'm sure.

[librechik]

14. yes indeed

complete with Fat Tuesday--every Tuesday, no doubt

[xxqqqzme]

13. we were just talking about that!

with the poor population removed and nothing 2 return to, the entire area will B 'made safe' and expensive - no resident, who was evacuated, will return 2 live in their 'old' neighborhood. I'll bet a mountain of money on that!

[cthrumatrix]

15. they get to be quite transparent --- hell Haliburton already has 1 contrac

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. That's why the Dems need to get on the job and ensure that

everyone who was a permanent resident of New Orleans at the time of Katrina must be housed in their old neighborhoods before any additional construction is allowed. They must also stipulate that permanent residents of New Orleans get first dibs on reconstruction jobs.

(If people don't have drivers' licenses to prove their residency, then I'm sure the utility company at the very least has records of who lived where.)

[musette_sf]

21. great idea n/t

[Igel]

23. All the buildings in most of the old neighborhoods will,

most likely, be demolished.

After sitting in standing water for over a month, with sludge and dead things, they'll be a mess. It'll take time and money to fix up the ones that can be fixed. But I think most of the buildings will go.

If most people rented, will the land owners rebuild what they had, or try to rebuild nicer? If they were poor areas, do you tell the landowners to rebuild low-income housing?

The people that owned their own land: will they rebuild? Will they have enough insurance? Will FEMA spring for it?

(My developing personal opinion: the lowest areas should be given to the lake or the sea. It'll just get harder and harder to protect them. Buy out the landowners and have them go elsewhere.)

NOLA's gonna change.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Maybe rebuild something like Minneapolis' Heritage Park development

which is a mixture of attractive apartments, townhouses, and condos, many of which are being built by Habitat for Humanity. It is replacing a nasty bunch of old-style public housing buildings.



I wish I could find a better picture of it. I've worked on one of the Habitat for Humanity townhouse projects here, and they're quite nice.

[Jeanette in FL]

16. I will work til my dying day

to make sure that New Orleans goes back to its rightful citizens. Even some one with half their brain tied behind their back can see what has happened here. This is our Native American senerio. It is our obligation to make sure that this does not happen.

[beetbox]

18. They will try to turn it into "Jazz World" with a Disney Theme

A 70% African-American city where resistance to white supremacy has supported a generous, subversive and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues and hiphop, to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, Parades, Beads, Jazz Funerals, and red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and dance and sexuality and liberation unlike anywhere else in the world.


They will fail. The spirits live on. The steam. The fecundity. The Swamp. The crawfish. The lust. The celebration. The naked.

They will fail.

[meow mix]

19. im not sure that Nature has signed onto this..

no one seems at all concerned as to what her opinion is.
with hyper-increased hurricane events.. rebuilding may not be a decision she will allow us to make.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Yes, it's all becoming clear now. This was how they were gonna get rid

of the "riff-raff" and junkies.

You wanna bet the irony will be that those gated communities will be full of lushes, xanax junkies, and crystal meth freaks.

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[Wizard777]

24. Marie will never allow that. She has done a Fine Job of protecting NO

1)She kept Katrina out of her City. She sent it to the (R)ight. X
2)She protected the people scavenging for survival by keeping the sheriff locked in the dungeon. X

No one shall take Marie's Soul City from her beloved people. She would curse their every day and haunt their every night. She is the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. I don't think the tighty righties want to see Marie laugh and dance and light their candles one by one. XX

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. Yup...

all those poor black and white folk we've been seeing evacuated will not be returning to New Orleans. Not a chance in hell.

NO has been economically purged.

[DainBramaged]

27. Economically purged is the entire point

Does anyone think for a heartbeat that the scum who run the Reichpuglician party haven't already laid out a gigantic blueprint and are dividing the city as we sit here? NO ONE who was evacuated will be allowed to return. THEY WILL USE THE EXCUSE THAT IF YOU AREN'T A LAND OWNER, YOU WILL NOT BELONG!!!