ironmentalists launched a barrage of criticism and a series of lawsuits. This was also the case with Bush’s moves to stop the Clinton administration’s plans to breach the dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers in the northwest. Even though the dams greatly help to control flooding in the region, American Rivers blasted the administration for failing to do enough to save the sockeye salmon native to the region.Ironically, among those criticizing Bush for his actions to prevent flooding of the Missouri River was the ever-present anti-Bush environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr,Toms Shoes Outlet Sale. He chastised Bush in 2004 for “managing the flow of the Missouri River.” If, before Katrina, Bush had proceeded full-speed ahead and fortified the levees of the Mississippi for a Category 5 hurricane, Kennedy and others of his ilk would very likely have criticized Bush for trying to manage the natural flow of the Mississippi. And it’s a good bet that many of the lefty bloggers now critical of Bush for not reinforcing the levees would have cited Bush’s levee fortification as another way he was despoiling the natural environment.AUTHOR’S NOTE:Since this article’s posting, I have been told that the Sierra Club Louisiana webmaster “is currently unnaccounted for in New Orleans.” I wish him only the best.–John Berlau is the Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.[标签:标题]
There has been something askew in the reporting from New Orleans. It has bothered me for a week now. Finally, when I took a look at the 2000 census data on New Orleans, a lot became clearer. Advertisement According to the Census, the population of New Orleans in 2000 was 485,000 of whom 326,000 were black, 136,000 white, and the remaining ten thousand or so each, Asian or Hispanic.If 75-80 percent of the population evacuated the city safely before the storm hit, as everybody is reporting, that means that far more than half the black population escaped safely before the storm slammed into the city. Even if all those who did not evacuate were black–and that is manifestly not true–25 percent of the total population is only 121,Toms Shoes Outlet,000. Twenty percent is 96,000. By far the majority of blacks in New Orleans, who numbered as the storm began some 326,000, evacuated in advance.Even they lost much, maybe everything, but at least they were not caught in the roiling water.Secondly, I have heard ever since reading about Huey Long of the 1930s that Louisiana is one of the most corrupt and dependency-prone states in the Union. Of all the cities in the south, New Orleans seems the one most welfare-oriented, least entrepreneurial, most state-dependent, and least economically dynamic. More than any other southern city, it is “Old South” rather than “New South.” That, of course, is part of its charm. It refuses the modern bustle, says “Slow down, Be easy.” It lulls. Its charm seduces. And it is also the prototypical, old-time welfare-state city.The Census report shows what that means in vivid detail. In 2000, there were only 25,000 two-parent families in New Orleans with children under 18. By contrast, there were more than 26,000 female householders with children under 18, and no husband present. In other words, slightly more mothers all alone with children than married-couple mothers.In addition, there were more than 18,000 householders who were more than 65 years old and living alone. Of these, most would normally be female.If you add together the 26,000 female householders with children under 18, no husband present, and the 18,000 householders more than 65 years old and living alone, that is an estimated 40,000 female-headed households. That explains the pictures we are seeing on television, which are overwhelming female, most often with young children. The chances of persons in this demographic being employed full-time, year round, and with a good income,Toms Shoes Outlet Store Sale, are not high. The chances of them living in poverty, and without an automobile, are exceedingly high.In the future, city planners should carefully count in advance the Related articles:

• http://www.315ky.com/home/space.php?uid=135767&do=blog&id=547103
• http://www.jidulove.com/home/space.php?uid=10213&do=blog&id=154293
• http://www.cm-life.cn/home/space.php?uid=18265&do=blog&id=378919