Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Mayor Acting Recklessly in Encouraging People to Return to New Orleans

New Orleans Mayor Nagin is acting with reckless abandon in encouraging people to return.

In recent days he was opening up parts of New Orleans for business and encouraging up to 180,000 people to return.

This, despite the fact that 80% of New Orleans remains heavily contaminated, the hospital care system remains utterly destroyed, fresh water is not available for that many people and the infrastructure is still heavily damaged.

His course of action is unwise.

He really needs to think about what he's doing. He shouldn't be re-opening New Orleans until AFTER the hurricane season is done and the contamination is dealt with. If people return and start getting sick from contamination, it's his responsibility.

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