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Edited on Wed Sep-14-05 07:31 AM by Atman
First off, I LOVED my visit to Sedona, AZ. One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. BUT...
Sedona is almost entirely "new." Virtually all of that town was built in the last ten years. As a result, it is almost TOO clean. Too "Disney-fied" with perfect shops, perfect roads, perfect multi-million homes. It is a place taken over by money and developers, and the original residents have been pushed aside to make the place a tourist paradise. No one but the seriously monied can afford to buy a home there. New Orleans will be re-built the same way, as a Disney-fied playground for transients, with all the local property converted to showcase homes and perfect touristy businesses. It will be a whorish shell of its former self, albeit a high-priced whore.
I am sure BushCo has already begun divvying up the best lots for his cronies. The developers and speculators are already on the teevee salivating at the prospect of making NO a "labratory" for city development.
In fact, due to its below-sea-level status, it is sheer folly to rebuild New Orleans at all. You can be sure the wealthy who move in will be pounding down the White House door the next time a hurricane floods the place out, demanding to have their private development re-built with public money. Oh well. Life goes on.
It's good to be a friend of The King.
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