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Originally Posted by davidd
Anyone who looks at this objectively, will see that the $26bil is not worth it. Considering the place is at sea level or below sea level, and kept afloat via levies and pumps.
The city is/was a shit hole with some of the highest crime rates (based on population), political corruption, etc.
When I see the images, it looks like a toilet just got flushed.
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What the hell makes anyone think it will take only 26 Billion to rebuild N.0.? I'd hazard a guess to say it's going to take at least 100 billion, if not more to rebuild it. It's sheer stupidity to rebuild it on it's current site. Every year Florida and the Gulf Coast gets clobbered by hurricanes and these perennially stupid people keep living there and keep trying to ride out the hurricanes... it's serves their dumb asses right that they've been wiped out and left homeless. They've been warned for generations that this was going to happen. I'm damn tired of my tax dollars being used to rebuild all of these areas. No, it's not like California... we don't have earthquakes every year that costs the American tax payers billions of dollars in federal aid or insurance payouts which raise rates for everyone.
If these idiots want to continue to live there, let them start paying their own way. Let the states that are affected like this (including those who get flooded out every year) levy a special sales tax of at least 5% to pay for reconstruction and have it allocated to not be used for any other purpose. Just having people relying on insurance companies isn't a fair way to do it because there are many people who simply do not buy insurance or they don't own homes, they rent. A 'disaster recovery tax is the only fair way to do it.