Sunday, September 11, 2005
The GOP's Three-Step Program for New Orleans
Step One was to allow New Orleans to drown. Step Two is to use the disaster to loot the treasury.
Step Three--mark our words--will be the "redevelopment" of New Orleans. Casinos, condos, and strip malls--all built by GOP cronies and donors.
All the talk of never rebuilding the city, all the talk of the impossibility of levees ever being able to hold back a hurricane--all that talk will magically go away, and the levees will be rebuilt.
But not for the purpose of letting the former residents go back.
The people being forced from their homes? They'll never get them back. New Orleans was allowed to wash away, and when it's rebuilt it'll be by and for its new owners.
Step Three--mark our words--will be the "redevelopment" of New Orleans. Casinos, condos, and strip malls--all built by GOP cronies and donors.
All the talk of never rebuilding the city, all the talk of the impossibility of levees ever being able to hold back a hurricane--all that talk will magically go away, and the levees will be rebuilt.
But not for the purpose of letting the former residents go back.
The people being forced from their homes? They'll never get them back. New Orleans was allowed to wash away, and when it's rebuilt it'll be by and for its new owners.
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"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did."
-- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "overheard" in a conversation with lobbyists.
I think you're right. There's been a longstanding belief among the white upper class in New Orleans that the city would be a real jewel, in the same class as Atlanta and Miami, if it wasn't for the black underclass.
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-- Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "overheard" in a conversation with lobbyists.
I think you're right. There's been a longstanding belief among the white upper class in New Orleans that the city would be a real jewel, in the same class as Atlanta and Miami, if it wasn't for the black underclass.
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