The Republican Speaker of the House in Washington says taxpayer money should not be spent to rebuild New Orleans as it was. He's absolutely right. The bowl should be filled in and the city rebuilt at-or-above sea-level. No more of this below-sealevel crap.
Rebuilding New Orleans as it was would be like like rebuilding the World Trade Center exactly as it was: using an already-failed design. Bad move. Remember, the towers collapsed, killing many more people than the inital impacts of the hijacked airliners did.
Democrats in Congress were quick to point out that the humanitarian crisis in Louisiana and other Gulf states takes priority over all other concerns. The Democrats are right too (more so, in fact). There are still many thousands of people to pull out of the stricken area. Order must be restored by the authorities before the survivors' decent into madness and deprivation goes any further. The Democratic response to Hastert's comments were entirely correct.
Only after these humanitarian crisis issues are addressed should attention be paid to any other post-disaster ideas that are being played out in the media by politicians and others.
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