New Orleans City Council

When did George Bush become mayor of New Orleans and governor of Louisiana?
I mean, if he's expected to fulfill the duties of those positions PLUS the Louisiana legislature PLUS the New Orleans city council, is he going to be collecting a pension from all those roles? And why are we paying the people actually IN those positions? Aren't they supposed to be doing the actual job of rebuilding New Orleans? Oh, I guess those are all just for show. Their main (and only) job is to point to Bush and complain. It was really funny watching the aftermath of the hurricane going through Mexico. Within hours, the Mexicans were up on their roofs, nailing things back together, repairing walls, replacing doors, fixing windows. I guess it just goes to show, while MOST normal people roll up their sleeves and get to work, there are still lots of people in America who think "the government" is going to come to their rescue and they just need to sit and wait while the work gets done for them by someone else. So pathetic. Cry me a river New Orleans. America, not just Bush, owes NOTHING to New Orleans. 2 years before Katrina even hit, there was a Frontline documentary about how unprepared they were for a major hurricane, how NO is basically a bowl under sea level, and a single breach of the levee system would be catastrophic. But, not to worry (PBS assured us), the DEMOCRAT governor and mayor were receiving hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars to reinforce the levee system and insure this would never, ever, possibly happen. Then it did happen. So what happened to all that money? Well, it turns out, they had other needs for it. More important needs. And this, somehow, is not only Bush's fault, but all American's fault? Sorry, it doesn't wash. And what happened to the very people DESERVING the blame for this catastrophe? They got re-elected. Overwhelmingly so. The true definition of INSANITY.

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Are we too overzealous in fighting crime?
For years, almost every prosecutor running for office has talked about "getting tough on crime." Many people seem to automatically assume that anybody who is accused of a crime is guilty, regardless of the facts. There have been frequent cases of police brutality, such as police tasering a college student for asking John Kerry a difficult question and the tasering of a group of people who disagreed with the recent decision by the New Orleans City Council to tear down public housing. Civil liberties are disappearing as a result of our unwinnable wars against Drugs and Terrorism. Duke's championship-caliber lacrosse program and 3 of its players were defamed by a crazy woman who made up a rape that never happened and got much of the media and one rogue prosecutor to believe her. Is this really the type of country we want to live in? Or should we place more value on the Bill of Rights in order to keep America a free country?

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For the Katrina whiners...Why don't they ever blame Nagin and his corrupt cronies?
It is getting nuts....Why do 1/2 the posters here think it's the Gov'ts responsibility. Nagin and his ilk used the money for shoring up the dikes for more local Gov't giveaways!! I guess when the Gov't has done for you most of your life...it's to be expected.. (CNSNews.com) - A former president of the New Orleans City Council and member of the Orleans Levee Board blames corruption "down to the bone" and "unbelievable ineptness" for the loss of life and injuries during and after Hurricane Katrina. The Republican politician also fears the worst for her city if local officials are allowed to manage the federally funded rebuilding efforts. "The corruption in city hall was horrible, and it was the same thing at the levee board," Peggy Wilson told Cybercast News Service. "The corruption in Louisiana and in the City of New Orleans goes down to the bone." Wilson was first elected to the New Orleans City Council in 1986 and served through 1998, including two terms as its president. When she lost her re-election bid in 1998, Louisiana Republican Gov. Mike Foster appointed her to the Orleans Levee Board. As Cybercast News Service previously reported, state lawmakers and the levee board engaged in an ongoing battle between 1996 and 2001 over how the board spent money. Residents of the levee district also defeated a tax increase proposed by the board. Wilson recalled those battles. "Nobody was convinced that [the levee board] needed any more money and, of course, they didn't," Wilson charged. Instead of spending money on levee maintenance and improvements, the levee board focused on widening bridges and making other accommodations for riverboat casinos, she said. The casinos are a major source of the levee board's funding since they pay for use of the riverfront property adjacent to their "boats." Wilson said her frustration over the levee board's priorities spilled out at one of the board's meetings. "I raised my hand and I said, 'Excuse me, I'd like to ask a question. When are we going to talk about levees?' And they told me that that was not on the agenda," Wilson recalled. "It pretty much never was on the agenda." http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200510%5CSPE20051017a.html Mark Anthony...Blind loyalty to either party is still blindness... http://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080110081616AAy14Jo&r=w#MbtkHWfdKlBNv7lfeq3c Yes...I am a Conservative.... David....They had 5 days, I suppose using the money for shoring up levees had nothing to do with it... Would you wait for help if you were drowning or would you swim? Sorry...most Hamptonites would have had the intelligence to leave....and the levees wouldn't have failed if the money went where it should.

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I have seen many questions answered with Katrina/Bush this and that?
Essentially blaming the Federal Government for the Katrina disaster, despite the FACT that a Democratic Governor and Mayor failed to respond quickly in the first place. And of course the people who always depended upon the government for their very existence waited around instead of making a plan to get out on their own. If we had to depend upon these people (the young able-bodied) our country would be in a lot of trouble. Why do people still bring this up in the elections section? New Orleans had problems of corruption long before Katrina, why do people not recognize that instead of blaming it on some nonsense about race? "Even before Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches in 2005 that devastated New Orleans, the city and Louisiana had earned a reputation as being fertile ground for corruption. "Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment," Billy Tauzin, who represented a Louisiana district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1980 to 2005, once famously said of his state. "Over the course of many decades Louisiana and New Orleans have earned a reputation as being exceptionally tolerant of corruption," said Jim Letten, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. "This fueled the demise of the local economy as it drove many companies away and kept them away." Since his appointment by President George W. Bush in 2001, Letten has indicted 213 state and local officials and private individuals and, he said, convicted "almost 100 percent." Those found guilty include former New Orleans city council member Oliver Thomas for bribery and kickbacks in 2007." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080814/ts_nm/neworleans_corruption_dc

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How do you feel about New Orleans replacing the National Day of Prayer with a National Day of Reason?
http://friendlyatheist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/National-Day-of-Reason-Flyer.pdf Formally endorsed by the New Orleans City Council.

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