What is WRONG with this scenario?
There are tens of thousands of people still without the ability to move home to the New Orleans area, a YEAR after Katrina. There’s “no money” to fix the problems: to clean up the wards and parishes; to provide law enforcement; to produce jobs; to open hospitals, schools, day care centers, groceries, filling stations, churches….
But “they” can spend 9.3 MILLION DOLLARS to refurbish the SuperDome so they can play football there, so it’ll be open September 25?
I’m sorry, but there’s something so horribly wrong with this equation that I’m effectively speechless. I love football…. but this is a travesty….
Tonight the governor of Louisiana was on Monday Night Football, scintillating over the fixing-its of the Super Dome, and pretending that every Louisianan was absolutely waiting with bated breath for the first game on 9/25. I was appalled then, and I’m even more so now after I’ve had an hour to think about it.
I’ve never lost a damn thing to fire, flood, bomb, or other disaster natural or “god” induced. That does NOT MEAN I am incapable of extrapolating from known information. This whole thing is so seriously whacked that it begs description.
It’s heartbreaking. There is simply NO EXCUSE for placing football in the SuperDome ahead of real people.
[Oh, PLEASE don’t try to excuse this whole boondoggle by saying - well, it’ll provide x dollars to our economy…. I do NOT believe that, and nothing you can provide in the way of doctored stats and books is going to convince me….]
