You can go back and search my entries: I hate bush, but proceeding with the demolition of the Hano housing is just about the only thing I agree with what his adminsitraiton is doing.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid getting involved to stop the demolition of these projects is such a bunch of horse garbage I can't stand it.
First of all - The "activists" that are behind this are about 3 local homeless people plucked up off the street for show and 100's of out of town college radicals.
WE local New Orleans are LIVID at these misinformed and misguided children coming down here and creating chaos where none is needed.
The new mixed-income communities that have already gone up at the old Fischer and St. Thomas projects ARE BETTER!
The old housing projects WERE A MISTAKE - the only thing that they served to do was to isolate blight and poverty and allow crime and illiteracy to fester.
And last but not least - WE CAN'T AFFRORD TO KEEP A HAREM OF POVERTY AND ILLITERACY in New Orleans just "because."
Access to affordable housing and economic/educational opportunities MUST be tackled in a more constructive way than maintaining these drug and murder dens.
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