Orleans elite don't want poor back...

[Coexist]

Orleans elite don't want poor back... White,
affluent neighborhoods intact: Developing...

http://www.rawstory.com/

OMFG... I hope it's not as bad as the headline makes it sound.

[Skidmore]

1. Intact, and first dibs on the oil and beaches.

The "elite" make me physically ill. SO many of them are self-absorbed and could care less about anything beyond their own creature comforts.

[Coventina]

2. hmmm....I find that surprising. Who will scrub their toilets & rake their

leaves if "the poor" don't come back?

:shrug:

Seems to me, the rich "need" the poor. Unless they want to start doing manual labor themselves.

[Lindsay]

5. They'll bring in illegal immigrants.

They work even cheaper.

:sarcasm:

[brokensymmetry]

3. Well, it is, actually.

Quoting from the article in today's Wall Street Journal:

Old-Line Families
Escape Worst of Flood
And Plot the Future

The power elite of New Orleans -- whether they are still in the city or have moved temporarily to enclaves such as Destin, Fla., and Vail, Colo. -- insist the remade city won't simply restore the old order. New Orleans before the flood was burdened by a teeming underclass, substandard schools and a high crime rate. The city has few corporate headquarters.

The new city must be something very different, Mr. Reiss says, with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," he says. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again, or we're out."

http://www.wsj.com/

[Coexist]

4. :::::::: STORY UP :::::::::::

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WSJ_White_rich_escape_New_Orleans_chaos_dont_want_blacks_poor__0908.html

"The new city must be something very different, Mr. Reiss says, with better services and fewer poor people. "Those who want to see this city rebuilt want to see it done in a completely different way: demographically, geographically and politically," he says. "I'm not just speaking for myself here. The way we've been living is not going to happen again, or we're out."

[Tesha]

6. Did you ever doubt that, even for a second? (NT)