The local news had a story today.  44 of the 45 New Orleans children that have registered in the schools here are staying.  At least for the year.  They have been accepted and are doing well in their new schools.  And they are staying until the year is out (mid june here).  And that is good.

Or is it?  Even the worst prognostications indicate Mardi Gras will happen, New Orleans will be back in business shortly.  The only thing they lack is people.

Before answering that question, think of who you are talking about.  Not a parent who bought a house in the wrong place.  Not a welfare mother that had no means to flea the flooding.  Children.

A year in the life of a child is a very long time.  Many of these people lost everythng and have nothing to go back to.

I wonder how many will return.  And if not many do, is that necessarily a bad thing?  Perhaps now is the time to stop the politics and really clean up the city.  People wise!  Get rid of the waste of humanity that has run that place for the last 100 years!  Get some fresh faces in there that want to help the people first and skim graft last.

Perhaps now, New Orleans can really be cleaned up.  And these children displaced by Katrina?

they will be back.  You never forget your roots.  but now they have a taste of honesty and integrity.  And maybe when they come back, they will make sure the bottom suckers never get control again.

That means you too Blanco.  Your constituency is gone.  Prepare for honest citizens now.