Please Answer These Questions

[MrScorpio]

Fact: 500,000 people are being taken from NO and are being spread around the country

Who will represent them?

What will the congresspeople who lose their constituents maintain their ties to the citzens in their districts?

Who will vote in those elections?

How will the citizens reclassified as refugees regain their full rights again, instead of being wards of the federal government?

How many southern people will die because they're not acclimated to the weather in northern tier states?

Who will move into NO if and when its eventually rebuilt?

How long will the poor stay in armed refugee camps around the country, unable to leave on their own accord?

How many members of Congress know what the hell is going on and will do something about it?

How will we ever get America back?

[Debi]

1. In this ownership society your questions do not matter.

Everyone should work hard and use the results of their labor to support themselves and quit relying on the government for their livelihood. :eyes:

[billyskank]

2. I think I can answer question 6

"Who will move into NO if and when its eventually rebuilt?"

The property developers will be greedily eyeing the real estate freed up once the destroyed buildings have been demolished and the ground cleared. They will not want to be building low-cost housing - heavens no, precious little profit in that - so they will be building luxury apartments. So the answer to your question is, rich people. Unless I've got my facts screwed up, a similar thing happened in Kobe since the earthquake there.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Let's see...

pending rebuilding efforts, any relocation should be presumed temporary; any displaced persons should be considered still resident in the areas from which they were displaced, and should be represented by those members of Congress for whom they voted. If any election for national office intervenes in the period while these persons are still displaced, they should be issued absentee ballots for their home states.

And displacement by natural disaster relieves no one of their rights as a US citizen, or shouldn't; the only appropriate answer to any attempt to disenfranchise voters based on the spurious pretext of "non-residence" should be that I outlined above.


Those are the only ones I really have answers for, I'm afraid.

[billyskank]

4. He didn't say *should*, he said *will*

Very different questions, of course.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Unfortunately.

Knowing our current government, I don't hold out much hope, I'm afraid.

[auntAgonist]

6. Very Important questions indeed.

I wish I knew the answers . . but I did vote to recommend thread.

thanks for the food for thought Mr Scorpio.

[LynneSin]

7. Silly MrScorpio - they are all representated by the same folks as before

[MrScorpio]

8. Sick, but true

Jeez

[enigmatic]

9. They are Nomads now

Sad, sick, disgusting, but true. Thanks, W.

[knowbody0]

10. these are the beautiful people

that made new orleans what it was, and we must do all that we can to ensure they return to their beloved country. temporary housing is not difficult right near the city, there will be many jobs available in the rebuilding effort.
look at the "towns" the military erects in no time at all in Iraq.