[lbo-talk] Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich

[Leigh Meyers]

On Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:15 AM [PDT],
Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:

> 
> Very unlikely.  The Mississippi river is the largest transportation
> route in this country that moves billions tons of goods from the sea
> to the center of this land and vice versa.  It's got to have a large
> port at its mouth - hurricanes or not.  NO might not be rebuilt in
> the shape it existed, as for example it happened to the city of Santa
> Cruz, CA after the 1989 quake - a hippie town that was rebuilt as an
> outdoor suburban mall (yuk!) - but it will certainly be rebuilt as a
> port and industrial city in one form or another.
> 
> Wojtek
> 

Worse.... The "suburbans" themselves came to the mall, and stayed.
The earthquake was used as a reason to re-develop Santa Cruz in
a completely ..."soul-less" consumer manner. No vision of community 
or future, a dysjunction in the history of the town that was ruthlessly 
abused by so-called "progressives"

If Santa Cruz is some kind of model for the future of New Orleans
(if it IS recoverable to any degree), New Orleans will never see a
real Mardi Gras again... But it will have it's "cash cow", the port.

Leigh
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