So now that New Orleans has been cleared,

[hickman1937]

What next? Just as the Scottish Highlands were cleared, and Ireland was cleared of the little farmer(potato famine), what now?

[BeTheChange]

1. Cleared?

Huh?

There are still many many people waiting for rescue.

[Joebert]

3. Don't you know nothing?

Once aid is promised, it's as good as finished, and we should already be building new stuff!

:-)

It's been said multiple times that the city of New Orleans will be emptied of all people before the cleanup and rebuilding will begin.

At some point, they are supposed to let people come back, but only for long enough to get stuff out of what's left of their house. And then out for the duration.

The speculation is that major resort type companies have been trying to get a foothold in New Orleans for years. The land they wanted was occupied by poor people. Between the hurricane and eminent domain, the city will be effectively "cleared"

[Sugarbleus]

8. Radio host was saying this tonight...

Many aware people agree that once they have the po' folk out of NO, in comes the high end building of condos and so forth. None of that will be affordable for the people who were displaced and moved away from there. There might be a "show" of humanity by building a "few" new projects but............. :thumbsdown:

A black woman called the radio station to say how outraged she was. Her idea was to get the word out to those who WANT to go back to NOLA when it's cleaned up, to write down every single thing they can remember about their account and,hopefully, at some point get a "march" ready to GO BACK AND CLAIM THEIR citizenship in NOLA once again. Wow.. I like it.



West coast late night radio here...SB

[walldude]

12. THey'll have to build some affordable housing

after all, where will all the workers live. :eyes:

[Joebert]

13. If it's like Vail here in Colorado

The work can live in the shanty town / trailer park down the road.


And, speaking of trailer parks, CNN did a report on some division of the gov't that monitors satellite imagery.

They said that they'd been contracted by FEMA to determine the best place for a huge trailer park that they could build somewhere that would stay for a year or so.

[Sugarbleus]

15. One would think so....

Affordable housing for low income and low wage working familes (service economy), as well as for the disabled and elderly is a HOT BUTTON issue of mine. For all of America.

Geez, I just wish to gawd that Bushco Inc would disolve and never come back. We sooooo need smart leaders who have their hearts attched to their brains (I plagerized that statement from some one in DU..but it's true) Buddha, let it happen by Monday!!

:cry:

[Spazito]

2. It is far from cleared, the people from the Dome and Center have

been evacuated but there are still many, many people still alive and trapped in their homes and elsewhere. The local authorities are receiving 1000 calls a day wanting help.

[Jersey Devil]

4. There are still thousands trapped in their homes and thousands dead

in their attics. That's what Bush would like, for the press to leave NO because 'it's all over now', but it isn't. There are thousands dead in the attic with no one to blame but Bush.

[hickman1937]

9. Slowly, they will be rescued.

Very slowly, because a 1990's type rescue would result in too many scum rescued and allowed to breed. Bet me, the sheep get to graze now.

[Extend a Hand]

5. urgent calls for help

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4619597

[scarletwoman]

6. You can look closer to home -- Native Americans were "cleared"

from this country at the get-go.

"What next?" can probably be answered by understanding what the mouth of the Mississippi represents in terms of all the commerce that gets passed through there, as well as all the oil platforms in the Gulf. Think about the pipelines and refineries, too.

What sort of advantage might there be in establishing total control of that area? Think about the real reason we're in Iraq. I imagine it might be much the same.

sw

[hickman1937]

11. So much of New Orleans was infested with the "impoverished".

Look me in the eye and tell me that these poor people will ever be allowed back in their neighborhoods. I believe that the repuke developers are already there, and have plans for planned hi-rises or low income housing for the family's that survived. Planned ghetto's

[jaxx]

7. Once it is really cleared of the living and the dead they find,

I heard it will take a month to drain. Then a year to dry out. And then bulldozed down before any rebuilding will start. Seems like they will have to get the port going though, with all the grain and goods going through there.

[TomInTib]

10. First We Take New Orleans

Then we take San Fran

apologies to Leonard Cohen

[hickman1937]

14. Meanwhile, here in Michigan, Oakland County muckymucks are

meeting to try to find out how to get a hurricane to hit Detroit.