>Actually, vouchers seem to make more sense in this case.
>If you want N.O. people to be able to return to something,
>you want to devote resources to reconstruction in N.O. In
>the meantime, you don't want to build permanent facilities --
>schools, housing, etc. -- elsewhere. The logical remedy
>is vouchers for schools and housing and the ultimate
>voucher -- cash -- for food, clothing, and other stuff.
But 1) a lot of powerful people, from Karl Rove to the NO elite, don't want certain people to return to the city, and 2) the right wants to introduce vouchers as a permanent measure, not a temporary thing.
Doug