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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
seriously think about what you say when you are talking about the city at the mouth of the Mississippi./
Do you people forget how important the Mississippi port is to our country?
jesus h christ, one of the MOST IMPORTANT cities in america and you guys act like its a village in Africa.
25% of oil, i wont go into the importing new orleans does, but as you see prices go up youll notice.
the city at the mouth of the mississippi will forever be one of the most IMPORTANT cities this country has.
just because you guys dont pay attention to the amount of steel, lumber, spices, sugar, and oil that comes from that region does not take away from its importance.
The Battle Of New orleans states EXACTLY how important new Orleans is to this country, because a city that controls that river is as valuable as anything to this land.
It controls Americas most important port. New Orleans.
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Your post assumes, we can not level the existing city and still have a port structure, at the mouth of the Mississippi. Release the levees, and lets see where the ocean ends. Then we can logically say, "HEY, this is where the water ends on a normal day." We can now fall back, build the new port here, with no risk of what transpired happening again.
Your post also assumes that New Orleans was Utopia. The people that ran it were corrupt (google: New Orleans + corruption), the city was a crime mecca (google: New Orleans + crime statistics), the schools were a mess, etc etc.
You have to take this opportunity to agree or disagree, this place had GONE from a great place to an African village (your words). The city was abandoned by the productive a long time ago. When your best and brightest leave, this is what happens. They will not return.
LA's GSP (Gross State Product) is $138bil, the entire state. New Orleans producing a large portion of this money. From a tax perspective, they pay about 30bil a year to the federal government. Is this a wise business move, to commit Federal Money (tax dollars) to rebuild a place most (who look at this clearly) was a shit hole.