[StBernard] Condemnation/Mitigation Issues

[Westley Annis]

Jer,
 
Your public insults have been tolerated because of your freedom of speech,
but why not come out of the shadows about who you are and what your own
agenda is.  I'll be glad to speak about the motivation for my still being
here, despite losing my house and business like most everyone else, and the
significant disturbances in being present for my expecting wife and seven
children.  What makes this most difficult is the bashing that we receive
from ill-informed rumor stirrers who seem to only work for a negative
purpose.
 
There is too much left to do so this will be my only response of this kind
to you from this point forward.  Legitimate questions will be handled as
they have been.
 
Westley,
I understood your purpose during this recovery to be information
dissemination- this seems to be changing to another NOLA.com site-  If this
is so, it would be helpful for me to only receive legitimate requests for
information or questions that pertain to the recovery and rebuilding efforts
or requests for clarifications of the information that is out in the public.
I am glad to do my part.
 
Craig Taffaro
 
-----Original Message-----

Since when had officials become angels? You can bet deadlines are met as
early as they can get the tax-base back (those who are determined no matter
what, will probabaly be back, but those who have smartened considerably by
any future-disastered pending) and were hurt so badly, that they move an
inch at a time these days waiting for smart answers. The problem is not that
many are not working, it's that many do not have good answers/decisions
which are worthwhile. Leaders need to be assertive as heck to request money
needed, as well as help to those who have been hurt enormously to the point
of "once burned, twice shy". As an analogy, "No one in their right mind
needs to rush back into a "second and third marriage" after horrible
divorces. So why rush back until a proper time? Could it be that those in
command need people to function in the community? At what cost to the badly
afflicted?

Slow treking is the key while being assured all will be ok. So, far, there's
no assurance that one who devotes the time to rebuild, heal their sticken
emotions, etc. won't be fractured over and over again in the area.

Officials need tax base to keep their positions. Citizens cannot be
guaranteed that officials are doing any degree of work solely for $600 a
month. Could there be an underlying reason for the performance? Surely, it
can't be love of serving for the heck of it. We'll see at the next election
just WHO will be placing their names on the ballots. Citizens should watch
cautiously activities. Then, we'll see how elected officials lifestyles
change, whom they associate with, and certainly their performances. While
they're at it, perhaps give show us their sincerity by not accepting money
(in exception $1 earning) for their term in payments. THAT would show the
populace more about whether they are the salt of the earth, or the future
oil-spill kind.

Jer.