Fixing New Orleans
Topic: Katrina
I have a simple plan on how we can get through the legislative Red Tape and the Political wrangling and infighting that is preventing and delaying the fixing of New Orleans.
We should temporarily shut down the US Senate Building and The Congressional Building in Washington DC, and move the US Senate and House of Representatives to be quartered for the next eight months (During the Hurricane Season) into the Louisiana Superdome, and have all the Senators and Representatives move their families to be housed and schooled within the City Limits of New Orleans. Then we should move Homeland Security and FEMA into the other sections of that same building, and have all their families also living and eating within the City Limits of New Orleans.

It would probably be the first time that four different segments of the United States Government worked together toward the same goal since WWII. And after a few weeks it would not surprise me if they were to start working 10 to 15 hours a day and forego their Memorial Day, Forth of July and Labor Day vacations, and eliminate all of the meaningless bickering and concentrate on the task of what we all know must be done, just to get the job done. It would not surprise me if many of the spouses and children were to start volunteering to work on the afternoons and weekends cleaning up the trash that is littering up the area they are living in. I would not be too surprised if the Congress, FEMA and Homeland Security started to work feverishly to build the levees Higher and Stronger, knowing that their spouses and children would be in peril if another Category 4 or 5 Hurricane were to strike the Gulf Area this year and New Orleans flooded again.

Golly Gee! Isn’t it strange how your reaction to a dangerous situation changes when it is your family and loved ones that are in danger!