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I wonder if they would even have to be relocated if they had the water management expertise and functional government of Denmark? I think the article didn’t ta
by dangus 5mo ago
I wonder if they would even have to be relocated if they had the water management expertise and functional government of Denmark?
I think the article didn’t talk enough about how Louisiana is far too poor to undertake a planned relocation without a vast amount of federal help.
Then, you’ve got the fact that Louisiana’s political leadership is some of the worst in the country. The article touched on it but arguably didn’t discuss it enough. These are not people who will do anything that benefits constituents. Arguably they aren’t even benefiting their donors by burying their head in the sand, although I imagine their donors have accepted that they’ll just leave New Orleans with their profits in hand when the time comes.
- bob1029 5mo agoThey've already tried the big guns. You cannot win at this game forever. > The pump station complex, which is the largest of its type in the world, consists of 11 each 5,444 horsepower Caterpillar engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Intracoastal_Waterway_West_Closure_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Intracoastal_Waterway_Wes...
- RobGR 5mo agoThat's on the other side of the river from New Orleans. To what I think is your larger point, that project is a small part of the efforts at water control around New Orleans. But, so far they have generally been viewed as beneficial and the various governmental entities keep paying for them -- why should we expect anything different in the future ? Roads get repaved all over the country, bridges rebuilt, and the levees rebuilt. There's always an "infrastructure crisis" of the decade, the chatter is how we as a society judge the expense and confirm it's necessary.
- sarchertech 5mo ago>too poor Louisiana isn’t poor by almost any objective measure. They’re in the bottom half of US states by GDP per capita (not in the bottom 10), but they’d be in the top 20 countries in the world by GDP per capita if they were a country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... They’re just behind Denmark by GDP per capita and ahead of Germany, Sweden, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK.
- CuriouslyC 5mo agoGDP per capita is meaningless in the US bro. It's literally a cooked number that holds up big capitalists making money "in the state" from extraction of natural resources, but that money isn't staying in LA. Drive through LA and those places you mentioned and you'll see it. Also, use PPP.
- BLKNSLVR 5mo ago"A large amount of wealth is consistently and regularly extracted from Louisiana"
- selimthegrim 5mo agoLouisiana has no severance tax. There are certain arrangements with trust funds for offshore oil that were enacted in the 50s and 60s.
- sarchertech 5mo agoIf we are talking about resources available to the state we can look directly at tax revenue. https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-local-tax-collections-per-capita/ https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-local-tax-col... Louisiana is 32nd for tax revue per capita.
- Danox 5mo agoAnd like most oil producing areas that money never sees/sticks to the bottom end. Basically like a gold rush town when it’s over it’s over.
- sarchertech 4mo agoLouisiana only pumps about 3-4% of the total crude oil that the US produces. The money in Louisiana is primarily in refining oil pumped elsewhere. There are definitely externalities that big oil unloads on the people of Louisiana, but the refineries inject a lot of money into the community.
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