Originally Posted by Julie

Interesting. I think New Orleans, since it's inception, was a ticking time bomb. If nobody wanted to go through the trouble of putting out the fuse, so be it.

The private sector should risk the rebuilding New Orleans. Our Government should, and did, give emergency relief, for humanitarian reasons, but that's as far as it should go.

I would go as far to say that Government legislation should make these insurance companies cough up money for these claims to help them rebuild.

New Orleans will still remain too much of a risk to invest billions of taxpayers dollars into. I would vote it down.