[StBernard] Stake your life on safe MR-GO?

[Westley Annis]

I agree with you, John, and they should be made to have their children and 
elderly parents with them too!

Laurie

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>Re: "Shipping interests pushing for MR-GO," Page 1, Sept. 22.

>

>Here we go again. Business interests along France Road are pushing for the

>reopening of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet before families in St.

>Bernard and Orleans parishes are even finished burying their dead. I will

>not dignify such an insane notion with an argument. Instead, I'll make a

>wager with the businesspeople pushing to keep the MR-GO open.

>

>I'll go along with the proposal that the MR-GO can be managed properly with

>water control structures, and spend the hundreds of millions of taxpayer

>dollars it will take for the project. But they have to agree that during 

>the

>next Katrina-strength hurricane that comes through on the same track, they

>must ride out the storm in a ground-level home near the Forty Canal in

>Chalmette.

>

>If these businesspeople are truly confident the MR-GO can be made safe for

>St. Bernard and Orleans, shouldn't they be willing to wager their lives on

>it?

>

>If not, why should they expect the more than 100,000 people in St. Bernard

>and Orleans parish to do so -- a second time?

>

>John Scurich

>

>Chalmette

>

>Now in Lacombe