BOSSHOG
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:18 PM
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I don't want a BIGGER AND BETTER New Orleans |
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I hear all this talk about making the Big Easy, Bigger and Better. Why? Bigger than what? Better than what? Less crime, less traffic - okay! Stronger levy's and better flood protection okay! But pray tell, how can the food and the music and the ambience possibly be BETTER? If Nawlins is made too big and too better, than folks from the hinterlands (and you know who you are) ain't gonna go to Nawlins to do things they wouldn't do at home.
Its as if a new Pope strolled into Rome and announced that he was gonna make the Sistine Chapel bigger and better.
I want my big easy back, just the way it was!
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:21 PM
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1. Or an (unelected) president saying he'd make our country bigger&better? |
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:22 PM
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2. I heard it was going to be smaller.... |
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and that Nagin now wants to make it some sort of Las Vegas clone.
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:29 PM
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3. That's probably gonna be a battle royale |
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His intentions are right on the money. A short term fix for jobs and tourism and taxation. And the area he is targeting will not effect the French Quarter. Hotels with more than 500 rooms will be allowed to open Casinos (his plan.) I have to look out 10 or 20 years from now if that plan goes through. Then New Orleans might be bigger, but I don't know if it will be better. But I have to say that Mayor Nagin has a plan and he is working for the city. Everybody hates him so he must be doing something right.
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:31 PM
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4. I hope they make the levees bigger and better |
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then worry about building the city part.
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Sat Oct-08-05 08:33 PM
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5. The bigger will entail better use of money to ensure the Residents |
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Before the Storm can come back to decent jobs & housing & Better will entail keeping that ambience that is unique to New Orleans while reducing violent crime.
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Sat Oct-08-05 10:48 PM
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8. It's never going to be the same. Learn to accept it. |
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