Eminent Domain, "Giant Landfill", and Stupid Hurts.....

[citizen]

A general consensus seems to be emerging on the Boards I frequent, and it seems there is LITTLE sympathy for the media-sensationalized "victims" seen on the "news".....perhaps focused primarily on those with genuine physical disabilites. Otherwise, "waste 'em" is a popular conclusion. "Stupid" DOES hurt!!! BT, DT. One form or another; and I learned. So, let's take this one step further..
It may be appropriate here to ultimately exercise "Eminent Domain" procedures and make the former NO a Giant Landfill, where the eventual "New New Orleans" will be built. Land sales would provide funding, and would obviously take some time to accomplish; but I believe it just may be MORE cost-effective ultimately. Considering the potential expense to restore the "Old New Orleans", that money would be better spent IMHO. Unfortunately, the typical bureaucratic .gov kluster **** will be involved (something I detest to my very soul), but would the City, State, and U.S. be any worse off than what we're now facing????!!!
America CAN accomplish nearly ANYTHING (space exploration, medicine, International Bungling, etc); why not THIS????? I would consider it "Raising the Bar", a Tradition in This Country.....another Example of Accomplishment to Show the World (and something I'm sure the liberals would LOVE to crow about; which I wouldn't object over...) Don't ask me for details (yet), just kinda "runnin' it up the flagpole" for now.....

 

[1911 guy]

It'll never work.

You put a little bit of thought into that idea and are therefore disqualified from ever influencing our government. They don't need no stinking thinking!

Actually, your idea has a lot of merit and has been used several times around the world, Manhattan is partly landfill if I'm correct.

So, the upshot is that your idea makes too much sense and therefore must be rejected outright.

 

[Owen]

Something like 60 percent of Boston is Landfill

 

[Art Eatman]

Ever heard of "Atlanta Underground"? Part of the downtown of present-day Atlanta is some three stories higher than when Sherman marched through.

First, survey the reality of the drowned houses. Then, flatten what's there. Next, build internal levees and then begin dredging to fill the bowl to some ten to fifteen feet above sea level. After that, do this rebuild of the most important city in the U.S.

The reason I say that New Orleans is the most important city in the U.S. is easily seen from looking at a map. The Mississippi river is the jugular vein of the U.S., due to navigation. The greater New Orleans area provides the infrastructure for the workforce that handles the shipping and handling of oil, gasoline, petro-chemicals, grains, coal. Who controls New Orleans controls the economy of the U.S.

Art

 

[citizen]

Although I've been gone all day, I'm pleased to see no opposition posted to the plan.....maybe there will be some "traction" toward accomplishment. NO is WAY too important (at least economically) to be completely abandoned; a "phoenix" of restoration is (IMHO) nearly inevitable....
.Meanwhile, I am ABSOLUTEY confident the Media will be promoting EVERY possible variation available that EVERY self-serving politician will announce; so I am GLAD not (yet) to be one.....(though I REALLY believe myself better qualified than most of them...)

 

[GT]

Yeah, good idea... up to a point.

I say:
1 rebuild the port
2 fix the historic center of town (not all that wet) for the Euro tourists
3 fill in the flooded part with the debris left in the Superdome, the Convention Center and along I-10, plus all those looted TVs and sneakers that never got out of the deluge, salt the ground and put up Darwin Award Lifetime Achievement signs

G

 

[Zundfolge]

It may be appropriate here to ultimately exercise "Eminent Domain" procedures and make the former NO a Giant Landfill

Environmentalists would never go for it because the landfill is below sea level, therefore its a danger to the environment as a Category 3 or worse hurricane would flood it, spreading the trash all over the place.


So lets rebuild a city on land that's not good enough to be a landfill.