Reply #12: Fauxtopia, Louisiana (the New-New orleans)

[SoCalDem]

Poor people have no place anymore in the New² Orleans.. It will be Stepford meets Disney with a nod to Vegas. It will be a faux city...sanitized and stage-managed.

There will be plenty of "newly-poor"..you know the ones.. the ones who used to be sort of middle class before Katrina did them in. They will be more than happy to live in crackerbox (but pretty) apartments just outside New² Orleans. They will commute into town to wait tables, cut hair, sweep up, mix drinks, change hotel sheets and sell lattes, and then at night they will leave Fauxtopia , LA.

Part of Fauxtopia will be closed off to the tourists. the oily parts and commercial parts will no doubt be located in a single area, that can do as it chooses without the pesky democratic leadership of old.. The ones who worried about pollution and regulations.

The poor were sent far and wide so that they would never again be a UNIT. They will never again be a voting bloc.

The land their old places stood on, will be parceled out to fatcats who will erect condos, townhouses and hotels.. The poor will not be able to afford to reutrn, and even if they did, they would not be able to afford to actually LIVE there again..

There will be no housing for the poor in Fauxoptia, LA.