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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 47969">Hastert took plenty of flack Tie for echoing that sentiment as well.&nbsp; He might be deemed as insensitive for the timing of his remarks, but the question certainly needs to be asked.&nbsp; Is the location vital to the nation&#039;s overall economic balance?&nbsp; Perhaps, but that doesn&#039;t necessarily mean that it needs to be sustained as a perpetual party town rebuilt with federal funds just in time for the next Category 4 or 5.&nbsp; If the powers-that-be couldn&#039;t or wouldn&#039;t make the funding available to upgrade the levee like the engineers had requested, then they already set the precedent themselves.&nbsp; If they were to cheap to spend millions then to make things right, the taxpayers shouldn&#039;t be asked to fork over billions to right another wrong. &nbsp;Some lessons have to be learned painfully, and this will go down as one of the all-time failures.&nbsp; The lessons can only be learned however, if the individuals and the group can look at the reality of what is known and what is just conjecture.&nbsp; Watching a press conference on Fox or CNN and then casting judgement or dishing out blame isn&#039;t going to fix anything that needs to be fixed or save somebody who might still be saved. &nbsp;Blaming somebody who doesn&#039;t share the same views at the end of the day gets everyone only one thing and that&#039;s the exact same set of problems usually unfixed and untouched.&nbsp; The fact is you can do everything to minimize risk and still lose everything you have in life whether you live in New Orleans or New York or the Great Lakes or wherever.&nbsp; Just ask yourself if it had been one of you at that convention center.&nbsp; What would you want others watching the crisis unfold from thier living rooms to do?&nbsp; Assign blame to them or the politicians or do something to help?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 47969"] Hastert took plenty of flack Tie for echoing that sentiment as well. He might be deemed as insensitive for the timing of his remarks, but the question certainly needs to be asked. Is the location vital to the nation's overall economic balance? Perhaps, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be sustained as a perpetual party town rebuilt with federal funds just in time for the next Category 4 or 5. If the powers-that-be couldn't or wouldn't make the funding available to upgrade the levee like the engineers had requested, then they already set the precedent themselves. If they were to cheap to spend millions then to make things right, the taxpayers shouldn't be asked to fork over billions to right another wrong. Some lessons have to be learned painfully, and this will go down as one of the all-time failures. The lessons can only be learned however, if the individuals and the group can look at the reality of what is known and what is just conjecture. Watching a press conference on Fox or CNN and then casting judgement or dishing out blame isn't going to fix anything that needs to be fixed or save somebody who might still be saved. Blaming somebody who doesn't share the same views at the end of the day gets everyone only one thing and that's the exact same set of problems usually unfixed and untouched. The fact is you can do everything to minimize risk and still lose everything you have in life whether you live in New Orleans or New York or the Great Lakes or wherever. Just ask yourself if it had been one of you at that convention center. What would you want others watching the crisis unfold from thier living rooms to do? Assign blame to them or the politicians or do something to help? [/QUOTE]

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