# New Orleans Faces Bleak Future... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 1, 2005, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960 "2005-09-01T10:41:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![halas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@halas](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/halas)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/41 "2005-09-01T22:18:25Z")
> [@Zer0DazE](#): > > “There will be a run on plywood, roofing and other nonstructural materials.” > > awsome, building supplies are going to go up some more. they are already up a billion percent because of the war. :2fingers: I’m contemplating wether or not to just go and buy tons of materials like 2x4’s, drywall, etc and just stock up. I’ve got a lot of plans for my house and buy time I get to buying the shit the prices will be outragoues. ---
**Author:** ![Zer0DazE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zer0daze/32/7624_2.png) [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/42 "2005-09-02T05:51:25Z")
> [@halas](#): > > :2fingers: I’m contemplating wether or not to just go and buy tons of materials like 2x4’s, drywall, etc and just stock up. I’ve got a lot of plans for my house and buy time I get to buying the shit the prices will be outragoues. the war is what put the kibosh on us building a house on the farm, and is part of the reason we arent keeping it. this just makes things worse. if you have the money, its probably not a bad idea to buy the poop you’re gonna need NOW. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_Cheater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Lucky\_Cheater](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lucky_Cheater)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/43 "2005-09-02T06:55:19Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#): > > I KNEW IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE BLAMED BUSH FOR A 300 YEAR OLD PROBLEM. > > THAT’S RICH.:lol: I agree that just about everything is blamed on Bush lately. I’m very torn between believing the accusations (my liberal side) and trying to sort out the truth (the moderate in me). Things arent cut and dry…thats for sure. But Bush did cut funding that would have reinforced the levees. Supossedly that funding would have made thems trong enought o fend off a category 5 storm (my ass). But regardless, our war in Iraq has made us much weaker internally. -Cheater- ---
**Author:** ![Zer0DazE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zer0daze/32/7624_2.png) [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/44 "2005-09-02T07:10:39Z")
“A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to **study** how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane” it was a study. that would have taken forever and a day, not 3 months and then 6 months execute. shit, they cant pave a fucking road in that amount of time. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/45 "2005-09-02T07:39:17Z")
> [@Lucky Cheater](#): > > …But regardless, our war in Iraq has made us much weaker internally. > > -Cheater- I think that statement is what irks me the most… it’s VERY true. Regardless of the opinions or reasoning for the War in the desert, it is slowly destroying this country. On a civil, federal, and financial level. The old stmt that “war is good for the economy” hasn’t been true since WWII, and this sure as hell aint the same situation. ---
**Author:** ![Daddie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/daddie/32/7621_2.png) [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/46 "2005-09-02T07:53:19Z")
> [@mike125k](#): > > but how is that helping? first off, you have no house, you cant get back into the city for 12 weeks (or whatever it is now), what good is stealing a plasma tv going to do? like you’ll be able to keep the thing dry anyhow. > > my real problem isnt so much with the looting, but the crime. mainly that sniper going after the hosiptal, how fucking sick are you to shoot at a hospital trying to help people!?!?!?! i wish the national guardsmen would have shot the shit out of that guy! that is just fucking wrong! The problem with that, is that most of them don’t have guns, I think their supplies were sunk… ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/47 "2005-09-02T14:37:59Z")
> “They have M-16s and they’re locked and loaded,” Gov. Kathleen Blanco said earlier. “These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will.” What happened to diplomacy? Would You think a governor would say something like that about her states residents?? LoL Well, not account the Governator in CA. ---
**Author:** ![Diesel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/diesel/32/7313_2.png) [@Diesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Diesel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/48 "2005-09-02T14:53:43Z")
Ha ha, Arnold would take all the looters and rapists out all by himself. Maybe place a call to Stallone and they would mow 'em down. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/49 "2005-09-02T14:54:45Z")
cant have stallone without russell… ---
**Author:** ![Adictd2b00st](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/adictd2b00st/32/7625_2.png) [@Adictd2b00st](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adictd2b00st)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/50 "2005-09-02T15:07:21Z")
> [@mike125k](#): > > but how is that helping? first off, you have no house, you cant get back into the city for 12 weeks (or whatever it is now), what good is stealing a plasma tv going to do? like you’ll be able to keep the thing dry anyhow. :word: where do these people plan on keeping this stuff??? not to mention now they are gonna be fighting eachother for their “belongings” (ie: stolen stuff) ---
**Author:** ![AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960/51 "2005-09-02T15:35:33Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > I think that statement is what irks me the most… it’s VERY true. Regardless of the opinions or reasoning for the War in the desert, it is slowly destroying this country. On a civil, federal, and financial level. > > The old stmt that “war is good for the economy” hasn’t been true since WWII, and this sure as hell aint the same situation. that’s because we haven’t gone on an all out war since then either. We’ve simply been losing people in the wars since WW2 (Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq), and we haven’t exactly lost a huge amount of major equipment (ie: fighter jets, bombers, carriers, etc) in those wars. We would need factories specifically tooled for military equipment (guns, vehicles, etc) for the war to be good for our economy. (just supporting your statement) maybe the ignorant people in NOLA should be shipped out to sea on a garbage barge and leave 'em. Sure there’s sick, disabled and elderly people who couldn’t get out. Get them out and save them, and forget about New Orleans. I mean, people shouldn’t have been living there…and there’s only 11 things that are of any importance that happen there anyway (Mardi gras and 10 NFL games…lol) so we wouldn’t be missing much. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-orleans-faces-bleak-future/1960.md?page=2)