[StBernard] FIELD OF DREAMS

[Westley Annis]

You know, Wendy, I tried to laugh firstly at this revelation, but instead
chose to sit back and wait to see if at least one citizen/former citizen of
that area spoke in favor/disfavor of that "bright idea" by someone we
know/may not know.

Consider this. One of the first challenges to that Versailles area at
Palmisano/Plaza was to get people back. That hasn't happened for a
wide-assortment of reasons. Mostly, because of working people who still
haven't gotten their money from Road Home/Murphy/COE, etc. to give them
incentives as to whether to make the area rise from its ashes. A park is an
incentive? Will 10,000 people live on the park grounds, relive Woodstock in
Chalmette, or give up the chance to domicile once again in the area in lieu
of playing baseball?

One has to wonder if the 15.8 million plus would have been more humane to
distribute 50,000 each to a citizen who chose to go back than waste almost
16 million on swamp land and a chance to have it flood again at some point
(remember the "ground zero effect" in Chalmette?)..

I've walked that park on a daily basis during happier times but would gladly
have given up the pipe-dream to have money for basic necessities and good
mental health. Remember what I've spoken about on many occasions and
remember Love Canals and Katrina Canals as well. That area is abandoned for
a good reason: People want to move on from the bad taste in the mouth and a
swift kick in the a$$ by a bitc& called Katrina. Somehow we can remember
Pearl Harbor, civil rights bridges and the Holocaust, but I'll be dammed if
people surely have such short memories for the worst natural disaster in
American History and a surety of history repeating itself at sometime
experts say "soon" on the horizon.

I smell politics, whether it's from someone presently or past-officially.
Tread lightly .. we're told.

Superparks. Tee-hee. At some point, we'd like to see super-reasoning.

--jer--

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What is the parish thinking? Is it me or is this insane...in the oil spill
area they are going to invest 15.8 million!!!!!!! We have people still
without homes and they want a super park. While I think a super park will be
good in the long term, in the oil spill area, it's not. They have just
opened the parish up for every lawsuit imaginable in ten years.

Wendy