what are your views on New Orleans people?
408913
I think that they're really cool people who have been through a lot in the past year.
414746
I agree with some, but not all of your thoughts...\n\n1) when they come here and work, they are paying taxes - it gets taken out of their paychecks. So does Social Security. \n2) when they go to the store here, they pay taxes, just like you and I. Same thing at the gas pumps, liquor stores, mall, etc. Its not like they come here, work and take the money to Mexico to go grocery shopping. So, they are contributing to the economy - more so than rich folks in America that hide all their money so they DONT have to pay taxes. \n3) they are humans...they have HUMAN RIGHTS. \n\nLast study I read said that Illegals contriubute $90 BILLION dollars to Social Security a year, and only receive $5 BILLION in outside aide. That leaves $85 BILLION to the rest of us. Im also willing to bet that there are more African Americans in our prison system than illegal immigrants - so they are obviously following our laws, despite having "jumped a border." At least they arent killing each other over gang territory or robbing their own people or getting over on charities like wwhats been going on with all the Katrina aide...\n\nNow that I think about it, I dont agree at all with you!
290714
1)More visibility to the weaknesses of the current Administration; 2)Perception that the socio economic classes were hit "more" equally in MS than LA 3) New Orleans looked at as major tourist industry... my question would be How much money is being spent in each place? Who is it going to? and What is being done? So far, from what I've seen there's a whole lot of nothing going on in either place, except to try to make Bourbon Street presentable for Mardi Gras (only 6 months after the disaster)
397132
New Orleans is a very historical, cultural city.  It isn't just a tiny little town with 500 or so people.  It gave birth to the blues.  Many people from all walks of life have called New Orleans "home" and the city has been shaped by each one of them - the language, the food, the religion, and much much more...make it all a very important city... and a very important part of the United States.
628715
To be quite frank, I have no clue about half of the things. But let me contribute my tad bit of knowlage.\n\nMy family orginally came from New Orleans, but that was about 15 years ago. But nonetheless, we still have distant family members down there. When Katrina hit, some of them went up north to live with us (temporaroly). Every now and then we would get a call from some kind of insureance, and you wouldn't be on the phone with them for longer then 10 minuts. \nThey left to go back home (...January?), and I've only heard from then once, whitch was to tell us they arrived saftly. So I guess that means, everything is going fine.
1001348
As in all art, it's someone's subjective idea of how something is. I was in Paris recently and did see many baguettes and bikes, especially with motors, but not a beret in sight! My impression of the Parisians- intelligent, sophisticated, friendly, classy. No ear splitting music, loud cell phone conversations, jeans and sneakers on anyone over 20. They dress well, behave well, take the time to enjoy life. They don't run themselves ragged to do more business, make more money, appease the stockholders. Their tax rate is high- they are willing to pay more than lip service to care for all their citizens. Gas is expensive, traffic is bad and space is scarce, so even new cars are small and efficient, they are for transportation, not status symbols- not a Hummer anywhere. And the public transportation is outstanding! Very wise in my opinion.  Maybe you're watching old movies: there would of course be old cars, n'est-ce pas? We're not all cowboys and remember, only half supported King George!
167590
The Mississippi River kinda goes through a part of New Orleans.  There is an "East Bank" side (downtown, Superdome, Convention Center, 9th Ward, etc.), and a "West Bank" side (ongoing joke that people are less educated and lack social skills).  A huge bridge connects the east and west banks.  The east and west banks are governed by different police forces and are different "parishes" (other states have counties).\n\nEast Bankers were trapped at the Superdome, there was no food, water, medical care, etc.  The people started looting - not just for food, but also computers, electronics, shoes - you name it.  They also began shooting at rescuers.  YES, SHOOTING AT THE HELICOPTERS TRYING TO RESCUE THEM.\n\nWest Bankers had no better provisions.  But they also had no large evacuation centers like the Superdome.  They were just as stuck as the East Bankers.  \n\nSome of the East Bankers began to walk across the bridge to the West Bank.  They broke into homes, DEFACED PROPERTY, PUT OUT CIGARETTES ON FLOORS, AND DEFECATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOMS.  They also broke into the West Bank's ONLY shopping mall, looted it, then burned it.  It is still closed to this day.\n\nAuthorities on the West Bank soon stopped the East Bankers from crossing the bridge, because there were no better provisions on the West Bank than the East Bank.  Also because they were destroying homes and burning things.\n\nNow the world thinks it was such a horrible, deplorable thing to keep the East Bankers from crossing the bridge.\n\ndilemma:  do we let the East Bankers cross the bridge, break into homes and businesses and destroy/burn them, let them cause chaos when there are few police officers available to control the peace?  \n\nanswer:  it depends on what side of the bridge you live on.
879089
Sorry, no bashing from me. This year, our community suffered a devastating flood. We were a Federal Disaster Area and had over 100 million in damages. The community immediately set out to repair our own damages. We cleaned out mountains of trash, mud, silt, raw sewage, waste products, etc... No one sat down and said, "Poor me, where is my government check?" We just took care of our own and got on with life. \n\nToday, less than 4 months later, many of our businesses and homes are open and livable. Tell the people of New Orleans to stop sitting around waiting for government handouts and clean up their own messes and renew their own lives.
611551
My brother lives in Houston, too, and has been complaining about alot of the relocated people from New Orleans not trying to improve their situations on their own by accepting job offers or offers to assist in job placement.  He is not someone who is heartless, either, and he was one of the first people along with his fraternity who gathered food, clothing, and diapers in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.  He tells me of stories of people just panhandling and creating undue ruckus around his community.\nBut, let's be fair.  Some of these people have little or no education and have lived in constant poverty for much of their lives, so there is no quick fix solution for something that has persisted unnoticed by the non-impoverished for so long.  Our country is so interested in fixing every other countries problems, but they neglect to fully realize that our country has needed fixing of the major kind for decades.  Our country is more interested in economic growth than the plight of its own struggling, starving, homeless, jobless, and working poor.  I have a Master's degree, was a teacher, No Child Left Behind came along, and guess what, teachers got displaced, students got lumped together, and even more children are being left behind by a system that sees dollars instead of the human condition.
853256
They are a mix of black former slaves and french settlers, as well as native american in the Louisana low country.  They have a full range of complextions just with any mixed culture, but most look like "tan causians".  As far and personality there is a strong community that speaks the language and keeps cultural traditions, but the younger generations are americanized.
116957
Well, I know New Orleans USED to be one of the worst....ahem.\n\n\n(BTW, NYC is one of the best)
383612
Im from new orleans, we have a website called NOLA.com its New Orleans web site. Go there and look for the whitepages, or search for people.
196223
how about the LACK of land in new orleans and how it's a fishbowl that never should have been, but since it IS a city (thanks to the government) it should be taken care of like a ciy (land) and NOT waistlands.\n\nor we could go to california.\nthe tree roots keep the land intact. when the trees are taken away from the land the land has nowhere to go to but to the ocean - can anyone say MUDSLIDE?\n\nwith the glacier melting we will have less land\n\nhow about how the native americans were (are) being treated when a bunch of foreigners came here and STOLE our land?  'wounded knee' ring any bells?
682531
His attitude isn't bad, it just is different than what you have.  He should have not gotten re-elected, but it basically was a black/white issue.  Blacks voted for him, whites voted against him.  The whites of New Orleans see how blacks feel on the national level now. Because you are a minority your candidate will never win.  David Duke or Satan himself (if he was white) could run for president of the US against Barack Obama or some other major black candidate regardless of political affiliation and win.  It's a black/white issue, you don't think racism is here... HERE IT IS.  Just went the way you aren't used to seeing it.  Another interesting case of this was OJ, different reasons and whatnot, same thing though.  These are some of the very few cases where I think the blacks won and whites lost. It's a sucky feeling isn't it?  To be on the wrong side of the road, imagine if everything in the country everyday seemed to go this backwards.  Welcome to my world!\n\nOh, and by the way, he brings up black and white issues because in New Orleans black and white issues come up everyday.  I just came from down there a couple months ago, well, Baton Rouge. A lot of people are still there from Katrina.  It is ridiculous how the whites look at us in public.  They don't want to sit by us, look at us, or anything. I didn't do anything to them. That is why Nagin brings up race so much, because if he didn't he wouldn't have gotten elected.  No other candidates would have done anything to help the lower class, they never do.
444933
I moved away from NOLA (Gretna) several years ago.  I was thinking about moving back the beginning of last year, but my mother became ill so I stayed in Texas.  When I found out Katrina was heading for New Orleans I stayed glued to the T.V. I couldn't sleep.  When the mandatory evacuation order was issued I broke down and cried like a baby.  I got so depressed watching the footage of the aftermath I had to make myself stop watching.  Next thing I knew here comes Rita, heading straight for my area. (Texas coast)  The poor people evacuating from N.O. now have to evacuate, because of Rita, along with all the people from Galveston, Houston, Baytown etc. It was horrible!!!\n\nTo answer your question about going back to N.O., yes, I plan on moving back.  You can take the people out of New Orleans, but you can't take New Orleans out of the people!!!
252692
I live in New Orleans, and I just can't support Nagin anymore. I can almost excuse some of the incompetence that occurred immediately before and after Katrina, but some of his actions since then (Chocolate City, anybody?) are incomprehensible.\n\nI will have to say that I am for Forman simply because I don't like Landrieu or any of the others. And, besides, Forman already knows how to run a zoo.\n\nAnd, by the way, StevenVest, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
1052690
I don't 'hate' black people.\n\nBut I could say that I dis-like the priorities and behaviors that are stereo-typical (falsely or otherwise) of blacks.\n\nGhetto rap, bum dressing, lower work ethic, style over and above substance, poor english skills, blaming others, etc.