New Orleans SLAMS the Door on the Future!

The people of New Orleans make it more than a little difficult to feel anything short of “disdain” for them.

They had a wonderful opportunity to rid themselves of an inept mayor and they chose to put him right back into office.

It is a fact that we are known by the choices we make. The people of New Orleans have just thumbed their nose at the rest of America while, with the other hand, grasping for all the US taxpayer dollars they can grab!

You think it’s bad now? Wait ‘til the next storm hits New Orleans, most likely this summer or fall. If, and when, the storm hits, do not expect me to feel compelled to lend a helping hand. If one “chooses to remain in a burning building, of one’s own volition, then I respect that choice and I will make no attempt to extricate them from the fire.

Look, New Orleans has the potential to be a great city. Not just a city of sleaze and ease. Most of the states of the South got with the program way back in the sixties and pushed their state governments into the 20th century (now the 21st, of course). But not Louisiana. (Especially New Orleans) No, Louisiana maintained the “good ole boy” system of politics and remained steadfast in the Democrat party’s clutches. Every social program, every money-making scheme, to come down the pike has been tried in that state. The good ole boys continue to run the state as they see fit. As a result the state is about 75 years behind the remainder of the south. It is a joke.

As bad as the damage from Katrina was, it opened a huge door for New Orleans, and Louisiana, to pass through, into the modern world, and join the remainder of the South. Both New Orleans, and Louisiana, refused.

Today, much of the state lies in ruins. It will be years before it regains even the low rung on the ladder of prosperity it had attained before the storm.

Just look to her neighbor to the east, Mississippi. They were hit by the same storm. They suffered millions of dollars in damages and lives lost, but they sucked it up, and got on with their lives. They had leadership, something that is sorely lacking in Louisiana.

I feel sadness that a single city, and a single state, in the union, can be so devastatingly backwards. I shudder every time I hear of more money being poured into that doomed city. It is, as the expression would have it, “like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’. No matter how much money the US taxpayers finally spend on New Orleans, it will do no good.

Until the people of Louisiana, and especially New Orleans, decide to rid themselves of the good ole boy system of government, slide out from under the crushing hold the Democrat party has on the state and go to a two-party system of government, it will remain a fiefdom of the “socialist” party in the US... the Democrat party. What we see in Louisiana is the end result of “socialism” as it is practiced in America. Everybody suffers equally... except, of course for the upper tier of Louisiana’s society.

New Orleans should be held up as a warning to America. THIS is what you get when you are ruled entirely by the Democrat party!

A multiple party system is healthy for America. Each party acts as a check on the other. (Most of the time at least.) But when either party has total control... society tends to swing to extremes… either to the left or to the right.

I will waste no more time worrying about the people of New Orleans, or the state of Louisiana. They had a chance, handed to them, to better themselves, and they decided to remain in the squalor they were in prior to the Hurricane.

There is an old expression: “God helps those who help themselves”. Apparently the people of New Orleans missed the lesson in that expression... somehow.

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