REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS

Since New Orleans is below sea level, any rebuilding is likely to just set the city up for another disaster no matter how the levees are reconstructed. The obvious need is to raise the city terrain above sea level. The problem is how to do that. Well, my poor dumb master can think and think and never find his own nose in front of his face. But, the solution is dirt simple and despite his obtuseness directly under his nose. I'll give it to you in a word--GARBAGE!

New York city, like many other cities across America, pay good money, not to mention shipping costs, to Virginia and maybe other states to accept and dispose of their garbage. My master tells me that a few years ago a barge loaded with New York garbage floated up and down the Atlantic coast for weeks trying to find a place to unload. Must have cost a fortune. My little mind immediately grabbed at this conceptual nugget and went to work.

Voila! New Orleans, here we come. We'll pay you to take our garbage. You'll get much needed landfill and we'll get cleaner cities. If you don't like the amount of money our cities put up, the federal government has promised all kinds of help for you, so they'll probably chip in to sweeten the pot. You could use that money, I'll wager. Surely Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, and cities all across the land need a place to dump their garbage. Why not use this otherwise wasted material to build up New Orleans so that city can rise above sea level?

Looks like a win win situation to me, so don't anybody get uppity. Garbage is good stuff that's just been around a little while. Kinda like my master.