Web Letters: New Orleans Is Us

August 29, 2007

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  • I have to disagree with this assessment. To put things in perspective, FDR didn't preside over a country that was physically devastated by the forces of Mother Nature; it was financially depressed due to a downturn in the economy from which we recovered fully.

    The way I see it, we can financially and physically repair New Orleans, but repairing its soul will take a lot longer.

    A. Cook

    Dunwoody, GA

    08/30/2007 @ 9:27pm


  • Tax money taken from average Americans should not be used just to set up another future disaster. Rebuild New Orleans above sea level only!

    John D. Froelich

    Upper Darby, PA

    08/30/2007 @ 01:22am


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