I was watching HGTV's Design Star with my wife last evening and they were speaking of the devastation in New Orleans that still exists today. It is unbelievable to me that in this great country we can not put people back in their homes a full three years later. I know that many of the displaced have no money and no jobs. I know that the levees will probably fail again and that rebuilding there does not make much sense. I also know that we need to take care of our own and that it is not an option to ignore this blight any longer.
If China can host the Olympics and carve out whole new cities in less time than we can rebuild New Orleans, what does that say about us to the rest of the world?
Maybe we should practice a form of Housing Euthanasia. Maybe we should just bulldose the entire area and let Mother Nature take it back. Maybe we could just use some of the money the Fed is throwing around lately to help these people out instead of bailing out the thieves in our banking industry. Oh, I know that there are good banks also.
Maybe we should just show half the empathy that we show to other world disasters here at home.
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