Originally Posted by davidd

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.