New Orleans bounce back? Let's face it, other than getting drunk, getting laid, listening to jazz music, losing your money at gambling casinos, and buying trinkets, what the hell is in New Orleans worth saving. There was so much wrong when New Orleans was "right" that the city is probably toast forever because it should be toast. City Journal has a very good piece up HERE...

The truth is that even on a normal day, New Orleans is a sad city. Sure, tourists think New Orleans is fun: you can drink and hop from strip club to strip club all night on Bourbon Street, and gamble all your money away at Harrah’s. But the city’s decline over the past three decades has left it impoverished and lacking the resources to build its economy from within. New Orleans can’t take care of itself even when it is not 80 percent underwater; what is it going to do now, as waters continue to cripple it, and thousands of looters systematically destroy what Katrina left unscathed?

Nicloe Galinas, the writer, points out that New York, a vibrant powerful city with giants in leadership, still hasn't recovered four years after the lesser disaster of 9/11 and the site is still a hole in the ground. New Orleans with corruption as far as the eye can see and political zeros as a power base looks hopeless. What we saw when all them black folks were stuck in New Orleans was the fact that at least a third of the population is below the poverty line and much of the rest is barely above it. A city of strip clubs, soggy bars, whores and their pimps, plus tourists to fleece is not likely to find the leadership to recover. There's much more, hope you link to it.