On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:41:49 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:


There's a lot at stake here, and I wouldn't so easily dismiss a rebuilding
of the area. It's it our national interest to keep that area alive
economically.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing rebuilding New Orleans by any
stretch. I'm just suggesting that it far from an easy project. The way I
see it, it almost has to be rebuilt. How do you abandon the lives and
homes of a million people? New Orleans is a major city, but no matter
what, it will never be anywhere close to the same as it was last month.




We've spent $300 billion so far on the rat hole of Iraq. We should be
willing to spend at least half that amount fixing up a major, important
part of the United States for us and for the people who live there.