A solemn look at the problems facing New Orleans can be found in this current Time Magazine article. As someone who has done government paperwork in the past, all I can say is, "Welcome to the world of US Federal Government contracts."
I suppose liberals are going to have to choose between two possible outcomes in The Big Easy:
1) Fast-track the recovery and restoration efforts by suspending competitive bidding, and thus allow eeeeevil Bu$hCo conspirators like Halliburton to make money
2) Reinstate competitive bidding and let much of the city crumble from mold and wet rot while government bean counters squabble over bids, subsidies, quotas, and the like.
On second thought, they won't. It's just too much fun to be able to blame Bush for everything.
New Orleans has an unenviable dilemma -- restore a historic though largely blighted city to an ill-conceived and dangerous location, or rebuild residential areas in safer zones that either already exist or that can be engineered by embarking on a massive landfill project.
Whatever New Orleans officials decide, I sincerely hope that they don't allow something like this to happen again.
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