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To: tejek who wrote (478181)	5/5/2009 10:20:12 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

Where do you think the people who service the New Orleans port and the oil center live ......Birmingham? You know what, sht for brains........you don't know squat about much of anything. New Orleans has been and continues to be an important city.* It is important to me. I spend several weeks there every year, and just spent about five days there a couple weeks ago. There is not much you can tell be about New Orleans. The port is a substantial operation -- but handles a fraction of the cargo of the larger ports like LA. Before the storm there were fewer than 500K people living in NOLA and that figure had DECLINED since the 2000 census. Its more than just about tourism. The oil industry, although much eclipsed by Houston, still has offices there and NASA has an important operation in East NO. NOLA is a great city. It has a huge tourism trade for a city this small -- more than 10 million annually with 40,000 hotel rooms (before the storm). But it has a very ugly side in that crime is out of control -- and has been for years. And that was hurting it. But close to 20% of the former residents of NOLA were in the tourism business one way or another -- the tourism business is still about where it was before the storm, but the population overall is something like 360K -- so probably 25-30% of the current population of NOLA makes its living from tourism. Its why Americans were so angered by the indifference of wingers like yourself and your president.</I LOL. It is a fact. Everyone in NOLA bitches about FEMA, but they managed to reelect Nagin who made "Brownie" look like the most competent individual in the country. BAnd it will be an important city to the wingers of the future because it will be remembered as the city that destroyed/almost destroyed the Republican party. Don't be an idiot. History will judge Bush's performance during Katrina as reasonably adequate. Not great, but nowhere nearly so bad as the media made it out to be. We'll see how Obama does during his first real crisis. Well Dallas must have a lot of tourism because tourism is an important industry in Seattle. Yeah. Can't wait to get back to Seattle. LOL.