Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina attempted to do what no police or charitable organization has ever been successful in doing: clean up New Orleans streets, it seems all hope for progress has long since been stalled in the Big Easy. According to Postal Service figures, which must be highly reliable given the USPS track record, the New Orleans area has recovered nearly 2/3rd of its pre-Katrina population. As anyone who has visited the city can attest such a figure is not necessarily good news.

Crime in the city is stratospheric and basic government services, never a pillar of strength in the best of times, are in dire straits. Police and Fire are short changed and public schools are sorely lacking, though one must question, what person in their right mind would send their child to a New Orleans public school, under the best of circumstances, much less in their present form.

There simply is no logical reason to continue to pour tax payer money into the cesspool that is New Orleans, the fact that the city remains below sea-level and is destined to suffer a similar fate in the future is a strong incentive to relocate, but aside from this glaring reality lies the fact that government administration in the Big Easy is a joke to say the least. Those who have left would be better off in their new homes, except from the vantage point of those in Houston and Atlanta who have seen a disproportionate number of the Katrina dregs inhabit their fair cities…
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