Well that didn’t take long…From the onset; New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has made it clear that he wants all of his city’s former residents to return.
He has crisscrossed the country calling on the city’s former residents to return, he has pushed the local housing authority to refurbish public housing and pressed the federal government for resources. Now it seems Nagin’s dreams have come true, as New Orleans is truly regaining its former glory (its former criminal glory that is). Crime levels have reached astronomical proportions in New Orleans as the city’s criminal element return en masse to stake their claims in the city’s most impoverished regions.
These are the same deadbeats who have been the source of lawlessness in Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis, Chicago and other cities that have opened their door’s to many of New Orleans’ most upstanding residents.
Crime has become such a problem in New Orleans that the state’s inept governor was forced to call in the National Guard. This is unlikely to have any long term affect on crime in New Orleans. So much for the idea of rebuilding a new and improved New Orleans. Recent reports from FEMA already indicate that billions of relief dollars have been wasted, one has to wonder about the $80 billion plus pledged by the president to re-build that cesspool on Lake Pontchartrain. This too will surely go down a bottomless pit of waste, fraud and violence.
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