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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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13 Sep 2005 08:09:12 AM |
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OT: New Orleans bankrupt |
"'Technically today we're out of cash,' Nagin said. 'The city is
bankrupt...We have no money.'"
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_12.html#079194
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29A129CB
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Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New Orleans bankrupt |
15 Sep 2005 09:10:51 PM |
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:09:12 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
"'Technically today we're out of cash,' Nagin said. 'The city is
bankrupt...We have no money.'"
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_12.html#079194
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29A129CB
Monday, September 12, 2005
Nagin says New Orleans to decide reconstruction
Monday, 11:15 p.m.
By Robert Travis Scott
Capital bureau
BATON ROUGE - Mayor Ray Nagin pledged Monday that he and other
citizens of New Orleans rather than state and national officials would
be the lead planners in rebuilding the Crescent City, even as the town
copes with cash shortages and a dispersed population unsure of when or
whether they will return.
In a wide-ranging discussion at the state capitol with city council
members and state lawmakers representing New Orleans, Nagin said the
city had spent its last available cash last week on city employee
payroll and was seeking bank loans, federal assistance and other means
of financing to continue paying its bills and staff.
"Technically today we’re out of cash," Nagin said. "The city is
bankrupt … We have no money."
He said he intends to find enough money to pay all people on the
city’s payroll system through the end of the year, and then reassess
what the city can afford.
A burning issue at the meeting was a recent story in The Wall Street
Journal in which a Nagin cabinet official who is a wealthy white
businessman was quoted as saying that people who want to rebuild the
city foresee a town with a new demographic of fewer poor people.
The story touched a hot button issue for the African-American state
lawmakers, who expressed concern that Nagin might be coordinating a
recovery program assuming that a large portion of poor blacks would be
discouraged from returning to the city. The fear was heightened by the
fact that Nagin had met with predominantly white business
establishment leaders in Dallas Friday when he was there getting his
family resettled and children enrolled in school.
But Nagin said the article "pissed me off" because "some people may
think this is an opportunity for us to build the New Orleans of 1812.
We’re not going to do that."
He said the business leaders called him in Dallas and he agreed to the
meeting, where he "made it very clear to everyone in that room that we
are going to move forward, with them or without them. And if they
don’t like the direction we’re getting ready to head in, they can
leave."
"The model that we’re looking for to rebuild this city, is to keep New
Orleans unique culturally, unique musically, unique from a people
perspective, but economically as strong as an Atlanta, where you have
a strong middle and upper class of African Americans, of white folks,
of Hispanics, of Vietnamese," Nagin said. "And if we’re not
collectively working toward that goal, then there’s a problem. So we
got them straight.
So don’t worry about this city being hijacked by a small group of
people who are trying to take us backward."
State Rep. Karen Carter, D-New Orleans, and other state lawmakers told
Nagin that he needed to communicate more effectively with the
legislative delegation and that he had taken too much of the
responsibility on himself to solve all the problems as they arose
since Hurricane Katrina struck two weeks ago.
"You cannot do it alone," Carter said. "You may have done it that way
in the past" before the city was in a state of crisis.
Although federal authorities are letting some residents and business
owners visit the city to check on their homes or records, the city
will not let people back in until the mayor has more information about
the potentially toxic condition of the water and soil, Nagin said. He
is expecting reports from the Center for Disease Control and the
Environmental Protection Agency in the next couple of days.
Nagin said some city officials had erroneously reported that the city
was arranging for business owners to visit their sites in the city.
Possible contaminants or disease in the environment and the uncertain
integrity of the levee system create too many hazards.
"I’m going to err on the side of protecting lives first," he said.
Nagin could not offer a timeline for when citizens might one day
return, saying electricity and sewer systems must be in good working
order.
FEMA already is sending more than $100 million to reimburse the city
for recovery expenses, and the city is close to signing a number of
contracts for the work, Nagin said. The city’s only final contract as
of Monday was for a waste-management company to clear debris.
The bulk of federal moving is moving through the state, he said.
Nagin said a city plan, not contracts, were his ultimate focus.
"What I care about is the plan. I don’t want anybody outside of New
Orleans planning nothing as it relates to how we’re going to rebuild
this city without us signing off on it," Nagin said.
Nagin met Monday in New Orleans with President Bush and Gov. Kathleen
Blanco.
"There’s an incredible intensity of focus from the president and his
staff to get stuff done," said Nagin, who has been critical of the
federal response to the storm crisis. "They want to have
accomplishments."
Of Bush, he said, "Every time he’s told me he’s going to do something,
personally, face-to-face, he’s done it."
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New Orleans bankrupt |
15 Sep 2005 10:40:23 PM |
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In <5daki15jjjn4r7k83kc5re00j15rlkenl2@4ax.com>, stoney <stoney@the.net>
wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:09:12 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
"'Technically today we're out of cash,' Nagin said. 'The city is
bankrupt...We have no money.'"
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_12.html#079194
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29A129CB
Monday, September 12, 2005
Nagin says New Orleans to decide reconstruction Monday, 11:15 p.m.
We'll see.
I watched the Chimp's speech tonight. One of things he was rather forceful
about was the need for federal *control and militarization of disaster
response...
(They'll get that damn Posse Comitatus yet!)
--
Mark K. Bilbo
--------------------------------------------------
"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New Orleans bankrupt |
17 Sep 2005 10:30:47 AM |
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:40:23 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In <5daki15jjjn4r7k83kc5re00j15rlkenl2@4ax.com>, stoney <stoney@the.net>
wrote:
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:09:12 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
"'Technically today we're out of cash,' Nagin said. 'The city is
bankrupt...We have no money.'"
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_12.html#079194
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29A129CB
Monday, September 12, 2005
Nagin says New Orleans to decide reconstruction Monday, 11:15 p.m.
We'll see.
I watched the Chimp's speech tonight. One of things he was rather forceful
about was the need for federal *control and militarization of disaster
response...
The Chimp, as usual, is full of *****. He was the problem, not the
solution.
(They'll get that damn Posse Comitatus yet!)
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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