![]() |
The Weblog at The View from the Core - Monday, September 05, 2005
|
Thanks to... ... HerbEly for the kind notice. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Mon. 09/05/05 03:32:14 PM |
What's Been Happening Which doesn't come through the mainstream-media obsessions. By Michael at Cummins Family:
And by Jeff Goldstein at protein wisdom: .... Couple this with Robin Roberts’ reminder that “Federal planning guidelines instruct the state and local governments to expect Federal aid to take 3 to 4 days to arrive and be prepared to handled the situation for that long” — consistent with the actual arrival of federal aid after the Tuesday levee breaks, and despite enormous logistical obstacles (the absence of infrastructure, flooded roads, and no centralized communication — which NO accepted monies to assure wouldn’t happen) — it seems to me that the FEMA response was appropriate.... (Thanks, Esquire.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Mon. 09/05/05 03:27:07 PM |
So. What Now? A long, long winter coming? Is now the wrong time to suggest that our country may be in its greatest danger yet from post-9/11 terrorist attacks? All the world friends & enemies & we ourselves have seen all too clearly the likely result of an unanticipated major disaster natural or otherwise. Will nobody try to take advantage while we are still laboring to recover? And, would I be too pessimistic to think that most folks are being too optimistic about a quick recovery? Late last week, I heard a couple of economics types talking about New Orleans being 1% to 2% of GDP and coming back into play in two or three months: there might be a downtick, they thought, but not a downturn. The economy will plug along okay. Come on. Let's think, boys and girls. New Orleans is America's largest port city, and the world's fifth largest. It may be more than a month before the water is all pumped out (though we would not need to wait until it's all gone to begin recovery and rebuilding efforts), and it may be six or nine months before the city (what's left of it) is really inhabitable again. And you can't run a port without people, and the people have to have somewhere to live. Six or nine months. That'll be 2006, folks. Maybe Spring 2006. Speaking of recovery and rebuilding... how long do you think that will take? To recover and rebuild an entire city? How will we do it? How will we afford it? Who will decide? Though the analogy isn't exact, of course, think of this: it's been almost exactly four years since the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed. Not a city. Just two buildings. Four years. And we haven't even definitively decided what's going to be put in place of those two buildings. Now, a city............ P.S. See The Soft Underbelly. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Mon. 09/05/05 11:17:12 AM |
The Blog from the Core © 2002-2008 E. L. Core. All rights reserved. |
Previous | Week | Next |