Let's look at the scenario. The first reconstruction contract has already been awarded to Kellogg, Brown & Root. The
Halliburton subsidiary. (Who's surprised?)
W mentioned that Trent Lott's big beautiful house that was destroyed is going to be rebuilt and W can't wait to come back and see it because it's going to be "bigger and better." This is an important theme to remember.
W's mama said that things were working out well for the "underprivleged" people from New Orleans now relocated and living in the Houston Astrodome, and she said they're SO enjoying the hospitality of Texas that many of them "want to stay!" This is another important theme to remember.
What you're going to see is high end luxury condo-based reconstruction that is more of a Mardi-Gras themed upscale place than a legitimate city with its own indigenous culture. It really won't have room for 80% of the people who used to live there. There's far, far, far too much money to be made for them to reconstruct a tightly knit community of mostly poor people! This is the secondary benefit that is gained by sending the citizens of New Orleans all over the country.
This, in my opinion, is why people are refusing to leave. They know what's going to happen. This, in my opinion, is why the military will point guns at them to get them out.
So as one of the last places that hadn't been completely devoured by the same old Gapbercrombie&StarbuckBestBuy is soon to be reconstructed in a way that will be able to accommodate the mallification of New Orleans.
Keep an ear out for how many people of wealth repeat the mantra that New Orleans will be back, "bigger and better!"
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