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Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert wondered aloud whether the Federal Government should help rebuild a city much of which lies below sea level. The most tough-minded answer to that question demonstrates that rebuilding and protecting New Orleans is in the national interest. Reason: The very same geological forces that created that port are what make it vulnerable to Category 5 hurricanes and also what make it indispensable...
...billion--over 30 years. Compare that with the cost to the economy of less international competitiveness (the result of increased freight charges stemming from loss of the efficiencies of the port of New Orleans), higher energy prices and more vulnerable energy supplies. Compare that with the cost of rebuilding the energy and port infrastructure elsewhere. Compare that with the fact that in the past two years, we have spent more to rebuild Iraq's wetlands than Louisiana's. National interest requires this restoration. Our energy needs alone require it. Yet the White House proposes spending only $100 million for coastal...
...build levees that worked, and its failure to do so ultimately led to New Orleans' being flooded. The White House recognized that responsibility when it proposed an additional $4.2 billion for housing in New Orleans, but the first priority remains flood control. Without it, individuals will hesitate to rebuild, and lenders will decline to invest...
...Witt said of the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty people, primarily faculty and graduate students, attended the symposium. Panelist Frederic Schwartz, a New York-based architect and a former visiting design critic at the Graduate School of Design, regretted the lack of undergraduates in attendance, saying that “when you learn...
...party had a sitting president or vice president on its ticket was 1952. The always-animated Carville grew especially emotional late in the event after a student asked about the Democratic Party’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Carville, a Louisiana native, spoke passionately about the need to rebuild New Orleans. Citing the significant flow of trade over the Queen City’s docks, Carville said, “You got to have a port at the Southern part of the country.” Referring to suggestions that below-sea-level portions of New Orleans might...