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In New Orleans, the Road Home Adds a New Bump
When people outside New Orleans ask, "what happened to all the federal money?", the question is echoed by those in the city. One answer: the Road Home program, designed by the State to insure that Louisiana, in this case, would be less corrupt than Chicago, Boston, or Washington, D.C., has instituted a Kafkaesque array of hoops for applicants for the money, designed to compensate homeowners for the damage caused by the federal flood, to jump through.
Now the Times-Picayune reports there's a new twist to the process that adds another layer of frustration to the process, a twist that would stun even Kafka. To avoid the possibility of paying homeowners compensation for damage they've already (improbably) received an insurance settlement for, the Road Home is now stalling insurance payments until they can review any imaginable paperwork. So now homeowners can wait an unconscionably long time for both their own insurance settlement and the federal compensation.
What's not to like?
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a few weeks ago I was watching Olbermann and he said that some levees were filled with old newspapers for reinforcement. It didn't get much coverage in the MSM but it probably will if the levees fail again.
It wasn't the levees themselves.
It was on the West Bank, along the Harvey Canal. At a few (they say) joints in the concrete floodwall, newspaper was used as a backing material for a joint sealant. More here: http://www
It was floodwalls and NOT on the westbank, but instead on the MRGO in St. Bernard. Reread the not accurate or well written article. In addition these are similar in style to the very floodwalls that failed on the 17th Street Canal in Lakeview on Bellaire Drive.
Here is the accurate report.
http://www
Just another case of government taking care of it self. I was guilty of innocence, i believed our government would take care of the people, i actually thought that such a high profile case couldn't be hidden from the people, or the press. But, i got a rude awakening, they did their dirty work right out in the open. Not afraid of reprisals, Is every part of American government on the take? Have we been blind to this for so long that , its a normal thing? These criminals we elected need to be brought to justice, starting with the ring leader, George W. ..........
Obama hasn't got a prayer as long as the American people remain the gutless lot we have become! Yes, the problem is lead by Washington, but our acquiescence to their malfeasance is just as criminal. There need to be consequences for their behavior, and there are not. When a politician is hanged for the treasonous act of taking a bribe, when "spin" is redefined as LYING to the American people, and results in dereliction of duty charges, when "earmarks" are called by their proper name, theft, we will have a chance! Until then, we are a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate system. We must consciously cut corporate headquarters out of our lives, buy produce from a farmer, buy everything you can from the producer. The idea that we need Walmart to survive is a fallacy, they are predators, KILL THEM!
The Repubs will do everything in their power to keep money out of the hands of poor folks (esp. poor black folks) in NOLA. Don't believe me? Just watch ...
Compare the response to the unpredictable earthquake in China with the predicted hurricane destruction in New Orleans. China sent $5million plus food and medicines immediately; U.S. just offered China $500,000. Chinese Premier Wen Jia Bao went immediately to Sichuan and even cut his hand helping to remove the injured; Bush took days to get around to an imperial helicopter tour followed by a staged photo op outside a famous church in New Orleans. People devastated in Sichuan still helped others and the army was immediately mobilized; while those fleeing from the 9th ward in New Orelans across the bridge to dry areas in Algiers were turned away and threatend with being shot coupled with grossly insufficient military and police mobilized.
The neocons are fond of saying that we are engaged in two world wars: World War IV is about the global war against terrorism, while World War III has been under way some time it is the war between systems--capitalism versus socialism--for hearts and minds. Well look at the difference between what advanced capitalism based on greed, profit, selfishness and the profit motive delivered and has yet to deliver in New Orleans versus what a poor nation like China, based on collective security and service to people not profits can deliver even when ppor and suffereing catastrophes worse than Katrina. The main damage from Katrina came not from the hurrricane but from broken levees not built properly because of the profit motive and imperatives.
Ask Rev. Hagee....p
The state created the program, not the federal government.
Not accurate. Created and recreated (because of DC's repudiation of the plan) under duress from the Bush administration, and a Congress fearful of losing their own funding for favored pet projects, one way to delay delay delay. Therefore it appears it is all Louisiana's fault. Not true, Bush's fault.
Did you see Bill Moyer's on Keith Oberman the other day? Moyers reported that seventy percent...
If you think that 70% with no net worth is bad, just wait until a few years of Hilliary's or Obama's tax increases. The figure will be 99+.
The good sisters used to tell us gambling was a vice. When the Catholic church began to allow bingo, the gates of hell were opened. Either you, Technician, are part of the 1% of the people who own 60% of the U.S. or you are a gambler who thinks you too could be a "rich'en" (to quote the great James Dean in the movie Giant). Well, never mind then. I forget how rich some are here.... or intend to be.
The great thing about paying taxes in Europe is they actually get something for their taxes. Us? We get to see our taxes pounded into a hole in the sand. Mark my words, this war goes on becaue the right people are making money. The Democratic contest goes on for the same reason.
First, let's call a spade a spade here: Deficits are just taxes you haven't paid yet -- with interest. If Obama, or whoever, "raises" taxes, it's because of the Reagan / Bush / Bush deficits. This resembles nothing so much as third world people paying for the extravagance of leaders like Marcos, Suharto, and "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Welcome to Northern Haiti!
Confining this discussion to taxes and spending is misdirection, though, in comparison to the *real* money: subsidies and loopholes.
Three-quarters of W's net worth came to him because he was able to con the citizens of Arlington Texas into building his otherwise money-losing baseball team a stadium. And he got the additional subsidy of claiming this income as "capital gains" so was taxed at a lower rate than the rest of us paycheck-earning schlubs.
Read David Cay Johnston's "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill" for the full story.
So while politicians will talk about petroleum, for example, as though all the options available are either tax or spend. What about closing the depletion allowance loophole? [Crickets and silence!..
Neocon troll alert!
The problem in one word: georgewbus
The thieves in Wasgington got to it before the thieves in Louisiana. The best part you can still blame the crooks in the Big Easy.
You are accurate Seawolf, most of the money slated for recovery went to contractors such as KBR with ties to administration, along with Halliburton. The same administration that paid about $3,000 for a blue tarp on a roof, that actually cost about $75.
Something I have been saying a long time. The government is not really there to help you. They are trying to keep as much money as they can for themselves. The founding fathers knew this. That is why they did not see the constitution as "living, breathing". You liberals have got the government you deserve...
I just cannot believe you are surprised by any of this. If the government were not involved NO would be much farther on the road to recovery.
How wrongheaded can the hardcore 25% be? Here's your proof! 100% wrong all the time, just like their leaders. New Orleans, and the surrounding areas, has become EXACTLY what liberals predicted it would become with 'compassionate conservatives' in charge. Conservatives, and their friends who they award with lucrative government contracts, have ripped off the system and the taxpayers just as we predicted. BUT IT'S STILL ALL OUR FAULT!!! They laugh all the way to the bank as people suffer and die, but it's the liberals who are to blame. There really is no hope for these morons. Their worldview is as bassackwards as it is possible to be.
Spot On!!!
Bladernr1001 said: You liberals have got the government you deserve...
Pretty funny that the "conservatives" have controlled not only the agenda but the government ever since Reagan was elected and now BR1.001K's blaming the liberals for the government. As for who's foisting it upon the rest of us, you should look in the mirror and be ashamed.
"Pretty funny that the "conservatives" have controlled not only the agenda but the government ever since Reagan was elected...
I do not agree with this statement on a couple of grounds:
1. There is not much difference betweent he 2 parties. They both are in an arms race to see who can hand out the most tax payer dollars for such unconstitutional things as farm susbsidies, welfare, drug programs, healthcare and on and on.
2. The minority party still has a great deal of power to shape and block legislation. Especially in the last 10 of 12 years where the majorities have been very slim at best.
However, overall, I do blame the liberals for big government going all the way back to FDR or even TR. When we decided to go down the path of government as the paternal entity that was a liberal concept. And we did this largely without constitutional amendments. So now we have this large, wasteful out of control government that eats our tax dollars for lunch.....
It is not so much "the government" as THIS government. Storm refugees were bused to hotel chains owned by Bush friends, charging up to $400/night/room. Then there was the FEMA trailer debacle. The money spent on just these two boondoggles could have built a heckuva lot of homes and put many people to work.
Consider the (shudder) government projects built by the WPA and CCC under FDR following the First Republican Great Depression. FDR invested in infrastructure, giving jobs to people who had long been out of work. Until recently we lived near the Blue Ridge Parkway, a CCC project that to this day brings tourists and income to rural towns all along its route. Imagine where we might be now if the big bad government hadn't invested in the Interstate system. Or if we (the people) HAD invested in a national high-speed rail system.
One need only read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine to get a clear picture of what happened in New Orleans and elsewhere. http://www
I think government is good at roads and streetlights, police and fire protection and things like that.
I think they are bad at retirement, welfare and social engineeringin general. I think most of FDR's programs prolonged the depression rather than end it. The data bears this out.
Nixon -- August 1969, Hurricane Camille, President Nixon readied the National Guard and ordered all Gulf rescue vessels and equipment from Tampa and Houston to follow the Hurricane in. There were over 1,000 regular military with 24 helicopters to assist, within hours after the skies cleared.
Clinton -- September 1999, Hurricane Floyd, was bearing down on the Carolinas and Virginia. President Clinton was in Christchurch, New Zealand - meeting with President Jiang of China. He declared the areas affected by Floyd "Federal Disaster Areas". Then he cut short his meetings overseas and flew home to coordinate the rescue efforts. All one day BEFORE a Cat-3 hit the coast.
Bush (41) -- August 1992- Hurricane Andrew, Bush was campaigning for re-election. Yet, he cut off his campaigning the day before to engage the largest military operation on US soil in history. He sent in 7,000 National Guard and 22,000 regular military personnel, and all the gear to begin the clean up within hours after Andrew passed through Florida.
Bush (43)-- August 2004 --Hurricane Charlie, Right after Hurricane Charley hit, Bush declared Florida a federal disaster area. Two days after, he was there, handing out water.
Bush (43) -- August 2005 --Hurricane Katrina bears down on the Gulf Coast. Bush is on vacation. The day before Katrina makes landfall, Bush rides his bike for two hours. The day Katrina hits, he goes to John McCain's birthday party. Bush goes to San Diego, to play guitar with a country singer.
You were saying?
I agree that the Bush admin did not do a great job with Katrina. And disaster relief is in most cases a proper function of government.
But I don't think it should be a role of government to hand out tax dollars to these people so that they can rebuild their houses in the same place. This will happen again someday. Regardless of who is president.
Really? New Orleans would be on the road to recovery without the involvement of the government? The government has barely been involved and New Orleans has still not recovered. And where would the money come from to rebuild areas such as the 9th Ward come from, in a private industry ruled by rich, white men? People who are more interested in tearing down low income housing because they see more profit in building condos for their equally rich, white friends. Congress, ruled by the Democrats, even in the Senate albeit by a slim majority, has had and continues to have the opportunity to REALLY fund the recovery of New Orleans and still has not done it. Just as the Republicans hold projects hostage by filibustering or threatening to filibuster bills, or the president to veto them, the Democratic party can simply refuse to fund/go along with Republican projects until they regain some semblance of sense. But they are also mostly funded by the same rich, white, and ultimately racist corporations, and as we all know, you don't bite the hand that feeds you.
They are all sitting around waithing for the government. If there was not an expectation that the government was going to come in there and do something everyone would do one thing or the other on their own.
As for what would happen if there was no government money involved. Who says money would not flow in form private sources...
Most housng in this country get built privately.
I love New Orleans, so it was only proper that my middle aged siblings and I spent our stimulous checks on a long weekend there last week.
After spending literally thousands of dollars on accommodations, shopping, eating, gambling and tipping, we thought we'd drive through the lower 9th Ward before leaving NOLA to pay our respects and observe the damage for ourselves.
Alas, as the driver of the minivan we rented for the trip, I was the victim of a scam artist who caused a fender bender between our vehicle and his truck filled with people.
My insurance company has informed me that all 7 passengers in his truck (yes, there were 7 people in one truck) have made claims that they were injured- even though they all were unscratched, ambulatory and reported no injuries at the scene.
This sham of an event has left me bitter and unwilling ever to return to New Orleans, or even Louisiana.
This phony insurance scam will end up costing me and my insurance company thousands of dollars.
Imagine how much that money could have helped the entire community rather than just a few greedy creeps?
When victims develop a sense of entitlement that leads them to commit criminal acts against well-meaning people, they damage their own psyches and become perpetrators rather than victims.
Folks, if you want to help NOLA and the region damaged by Katrina, send checks.
I wouldn't advise paying one's respects in person, however. That's a sucker's game.
One can become a victim of that scam anywhere in this country, like being hit by a drunk driver. It's ridiculously unfair of you to paint the good people of Louisiana with such a broad brush. No one has cornered the market on a-holes, and no one ever will.
Your post indicates that those in Louisiana need more than just a reconstruction of their buildings and roads.
The scam that you described only works in areas where the local judicial system tolerates it. New Orleans seems to be one of them.
It can be hard to tell which judicial system is more corrupt, but any place that you find open corruption you will find it.
You might want to also stay out of Chicago and some of the suburbs.
karen, to spend your family time and money on a vacation to NOLA as a sign of support was very thoughtful and generous. It sounds like you had a great time until your venture to the 9th Ward. But what I question is why you blame an entire city and an entire state for an incident that could have happened and does happen in every city, in every state, every day in this country? How do you know that these people were 'vicitms who have developed a sense of entitlement'? Also, didn't you think that by driving a rented vehicle through a devastated and mostly unpopulated & unprotected part of the city might be a bit dangerous for sight-seeing? There are bus tours and other ways to visit and pay respects to the devastated areas that are much safer for tourists. Driving a rented vehicle in unfamiliar areas is considered unsafe in most big cities. Also, if the incident was an obvioius scam, it shouldn't cost you anything and those people should be prosecuted.
A similar thing happened to me in a fender-bender (my car had no damage, hers a busted taillight and a dented bumper) in Northern VA, with a young white middle class woman driving a Honda Civic. While we were sitting in the police car she talked about some of the other accidents she had been in; that was my only two-car accident in 40 years of driving. She came to court in a neck brace and sued my insurance company for $300,000. I don't know how much she ultimately got but the lawsuit put my life on hold for a year. Don't blame New Orleans.
I had gone to New Orleans before the storm and thought it was the nastiest city I'd ever been in. Just people sitting in doorways asking for money or following us asking for money. I live several hours from New Orleans and I know personally of several churches who tried to help some of these people out by giving them food, shelter and housing within the church. The church was repaid by people stealing anything that wasn't nailed dowm, by smearing their own feces all over the church walls and by literrally destroying church pew, books and anything else they could. The church people were left wondering why people who they were trying to help would do such a thing. Some people are thugs and will always be thugs...it doesn't matter how much people try to help. After hearing a few stories like that I decided to not send money down there. LA has always been corrupt and always will be.
Jen, thanks to the compassionate conservatives' policies we have little to no mental health assistance any longer, and little if any hospitalization for those who are in desperate need. These are not thugs, they are mentally ill. Significant difference. Corruption has nothing to do with this.
I don't think you have firsthand knowledge of any of that. A few things in your post tipped me off: but, mainly the statement near the end, "hearing a few stories," leads me to believe that all you have is stories.
New Orleans: just a bunch of beggars. That's all 1.5 million people do all day, they sit in doorways or panhandle.
I went to New Orleans before the storm, too. I found art, music, food, architecture, churches, schools, parks, playgrounds, scenery and people who were happy to see me.
I work for RHP; here are the main issues facing the program.
#1: State government (always complaining about the program's progress) hinders progress every step of the way. We can't ever reach a decent production level because we're busy handling "special requests" from politicians. It doesn't matter if you're at the front of the line. The biggest mouths win. Did anyone think it could be any other way? As an outside company, we were naive in thinking we could be transparent enough to avoid getting in the middle of that mess. Not possible. #2: It has been difficult to find skilled labor in Louisiana. Many original staff were out-of-staters, with specific skill sets, decent education, etc. It is a sad situation, but the truth is that a college degree (even at the Master's level) from many schools in LA is equivalent to a high school degree or less in other parts of the country. We hired people that look OK on paper, but upon hiring, we discover are essentially unskilled. That severely limits the program's ability to function.
There are things we could have done better, no doubt. Expectations were set that homeowners would have money quickly, but we knew we wouldn't distribute money to 100k+ people in less than several years. For those at the end of the line, it's an eternity.
Knowing this will not make life any easier for people that are ready to move on, but it may help understand how this is happening.
HIRE DISABLED VETERANS!!
I BET YOU MOST WILL HAVE THE SKILLS TO READ AND FOLLOW ORDERS AND INSTRUCTIONS.
By "many schools in LA" I thought you meant Los Angeles, and I was nodding my head, yeah, "ain't it the truth." But, of course, you mean Louisiana. No monopoly on bloated degrees there, rest assured.
"college degree (even at the Master's level) from many schools in LA is equivalent to a high school degree or less in other parts of the country."
Are you f'ing kidding me? that is the most asinine statement i have ever heard uttered from someone who pretends to be from louisiana. Name 1 high school whose diploma is better than a master's degree from a louisiana state college, name 1. And Im not referring to high schools were the value is in the connections (ie those northeast boarding schools attended by our chimp in chief) but one where the actual education is of greater value.
you are just plain ridiculous. its no wonder why people all over the country think louisiana residents are stupid.... its people like you that provide them fodder... all because you needed to feel self important? what a loser.
Did you ever stop to think that the economic make up of louisiana right now is heavily tilted to the oil industry--where benefits, pay, etc are at all time highs? That could be why louisiana residents are lining up to work for the govt.
The fact of the matter is this program will never help the Gulf Coast. The red tape is put in place so the politicians can say they signed the bill, yet they are never required to spend the money...it
>> "we knew we wouldn't distribute money to 100k+ people in less than several years"
Sorry, but this smacks of a "sorry, not my table" mentality. Yeah, I know it's a rough job. Yes, I know ou have to deal with a lot of red tape.
But how long has it been? How much longer do you expect these people to wait for you folks to get it out of second gear?
And blaming the people who were educated in Louisiana aint exactly helping your cause, bubba.
Sorry, no sympathy. Get your job done and stop yer whining.
This response is PRICELESS! Look buddy, your company is being paid beaucoup money (unlike the recipients you were hired to help) to do a job. They are not living up to their own goals and so AGAIN it is the victims at fault. Shut up and just do your job. But, since I got my high school, college and doctorate degrees in Louisiana, I must be too stupid to understand why you are so horrible at your job. Suck it up, grow some balls and help the people that you and your company have been torturing for the last year.
Like anything this admin has done, it is another version of "looting the treasury" by not paying for things that they supposedly agreed to pay -- the money is allocated, but somehow it never reaches the intended recipients. Iraq reconstruction anyone?
"One answer: the Road Home program, designed by the State to insure that Louisiana". Work on your reading comprehension skills. The Bush admin's response to Katrina was poor in many respects, but the Dems at the state and local level in LA haven't been any better.
I don't disagree with what you posted but the Bush administration has been HORRIBLE and unsupportive to say the least. I voted for the guy and now know that I was an idiot for doing so. Never in my life would I think an administration would turn their backs and ignore a devastated America and that is EXACTLY what they did.
Precisely. Do just enough to quiet the populace but never follow through. The only people who are getting paid are folks like the ingrate hibiscus7.
At this point, how can anyone come up with anything new to say about the useless, heartless Bush administration?
Appalling. Disgusting.
Did you even read the blog? If you did you would have read that the state of LOUISIANA created the Road Home program and added more layers of checks and balances which is delaying payouts to people who desperately need the money.
On another note, why don't you place blame where it belongs right at the feet of the citizens of New Orleans, Nagin, Blanco AND Bush? Obviously you are sympathetic to the plight of New Orleans, well, I volunteered my time and money to the well being of the refugee's (evacuee's) of New Orleans in Houston and many of the ill feelings towards the Katrina victims were caused by the "victims" themselves. Many in New Orleans sincerely need help but there are many times more who only wish to milk the system for everything they can get and then some. I for one am sick of hearing about New Orleans and Katrina, if you listen to Harry and anyone from New Orleans you would conclude that New Orleans was THE ONLY PLACE HIT BY KATRINA, well what about Mississippi and Alabama? They were hit much harder yet in many instances they received zero help for rebuilding because New Orleans has been sucking all of the coffers dry yet these same towns that were totally destroyed by Katrina have helped themselves and in many cases rebuilt their towns WITHOUT the help of the government, if they can do it why can't New Orleans?
You are wrong both Mississippi and Alabama received federal government help and help from people volunteering. Unlike Mississippi and Alabama most of our damage was due to federal levee failure, levees that Bush had vetoed funding on. I am not saying New Orleans was hit worse then the other states because we all lost so much it does no good to count BUT most of our damage was caused by our federal government being to cheap to keep us safe and that thought leads to feeling like the federal government owes us. Remember this too could happen to you! The federal government could be doing a lot of things to help make all of our lives better but they spent all our money and then some killing people in Iraq so their war profiteer friends could get rich. Personally, I would rather help people rebuild their life's after the flood, even if that means a few will "milk the system" then use the money for killing and bombing. If you added up all the thing this region does for America it is a small price to help us when we are in need. Besides, we would help you!
The Bush administration purposefully gelded FEMA so there would be no federal gubmint response to any disaster, including the devastation of New Orleans when the federal levies broke. "Nagin's a jerk too" is the junior-highish Fox response. Always deflecting responsibility from our irresponsible, immature, dangerously inept president.
Dreamshasher (good name for you by the way) I live in SE LA right outside New Orleans and my 80 year old mother lives a block off the beach in Pass Christian, MS so I have been part of the rebuilding in both states personally. It has been EXACTLY the same in both locations. Those with resources used them to rebuild. Those without resources had to wait (and are still waiting) for an inept goverment for help. A lot of the problem in both states was the "Stafford Act", an act that says the local communities need to supply 20% of the money up front. When the community is completely devastated it has no tax base and this is impossible. The government can "allocate" trillions in aid but nobody can touch it. It took 2 years for George Bush to allow this act to be by passed. But you helped poor traumatized people in the Astrodome, so you know it is all their fault. Open your mind and realize you don't know ANYTHING!
Gawd are you misinformed.
1- MS gets proportionally more mney than New Orleans, easier, and faster. The casinos are back. Why is that?
2- And boy am I getting tired of repeating this cold stone fact: BUSH DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS. For 3 years, to balance the tax cuts he gave to his rich friends, he cut the ACOE levee reconstruction money so badly it stopped all work in progress: Bush broke it- Bush should fix it. Simple.
2001- Bush proposed half of what his own officials said was necessary for the critical Southeast Louisiana Flood Control Project- the levee rebuilding project.
2002- Bush provided just one fifth of what government experts and Republican elected officials in Louisiana told the administration was needed.
2004- The SELA project sought $100 million to strengthen the levees, but Bush offered only $16.5 million. The Army Corps of Engineers begged for $27 million to pay for levee upgrades around Lake Pontchartrain and the Industrial Canal (the one that broke)—but the White House cut that to $3.9 million.
Katrina was three disasters- The Hurricane itself, George Bush's wanton destruction of New Orleans, and a third: This country, with the exception of a few, refused to step in and do what its leaders did not want to do. The rest of the country could have raised a racket and forced its leaders to take action, but no.
Dreamer not correct. The program of which you speak was the result of the Bush administration insisting on controlling the plan for housing disbursement, and rejecting all plans outright including the first one offered by Rep. Richard Baker, La.-R. The Bush administration insisted on final approval, they held the money and reins to this debacle. Louisiana only followed Bush's requirements for release of funds. As previously stated, per capita, Mississippi received considerably more aid than Louisiana, which was hit harder. Many more homes, victims, and square miles were destroyed compared to Mississippi.
Thank you for volunteering, but sorry to hear you are sick of hearing about New Orleans and Katrina. We too are sick of living with the destruction, loss of lives, including the suicides of those we cherished. It has been such an inconvenience to us all. You too, it seems.
YES...nomo
You need to have a :"basic knowledge of the ROLE of the Federal Government!!!!"
Most of the Bush Adminestration can't vote Republican anymore!
A recent newspaper article informed that the LRH had just ignored some folks who wanted to dispute their grant, which we did, which a lot of people did. The article said we should contact the contractor and complain. The thought of starting that process over, the thought of contacting LRH makes me sick to my stomach. I feel violated by the process I went through, I can't bear the thought of starting the process all over again. I'd rather, and I will, just live in the new poverty we've been granted by the folks who end each phone call with "Remember, Louisiana wants you to come home."
I have purchased what should be the winning lottery ticket, today. When I win, I'll pledge to fund a documentary of the official of choice that must retrace each step taken by any victim who wants to volunteer their story. I hope it turns out to be Bush that must stop his presidency, and travel to New Orleans to carry out the task. First scene will have the idiot sleep under the bridge for a few months.
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