The question is, who gives a rats ass about NOLA anyway? I lived there for a year in 1979/1980 and it was a dead loss on a good day. What can you expect from a city that starts out each day knowing that they are 10 feet under water, has about the highest crime and unemployment rates in the States, and wants continual handouts from the government (read as taxpayers) just to keep their noses above water.

Now they want the taxpayers to rebuild a dying city with not much future. The Mississippi River is trying to cut a new channel down the Atchafalaya basin. This will cause NOLA to become a landlocked ex-port. To prevent this the Corps of Engineers is slated to spent between 50 bazillion and 200 gazillion dollars just to save a dying city. Stop me when I get to what is good about NOLA.