When is enough, enough?

 

With the exception of Mardi  Gras and the Essence festival which are actually run by private entities, what city services does  N.O. presently successfully offer?   Police response times for serious crimes such as rape, car jackings, theft, and shootings are still not even close to acceptable limits, and EMI response times also pale.  The sewerage and water board services and billing are still deplorable.  And let’s not even talk about the ongoing sanitation services debacles, coupled with failures to repair streets in a timely fashion.  Blight continues unchecked along with increases in the homeless populating its streets.

Now we discover that kids that worked this summer for various city projects still haven’t been paid, coupled with the tragedy of a child being injured by a fallen tree limb that could have been prevented by addressing the early warning signs of an unsafe tree in the highly trafficked Jackson Square.

The city of New Orleans continues to drift more and more into a reactive mode rather than a proactive one.  Sadly, I suspect that many have become so accustomed to the present environment in the Big Easy that they don’t realize that there are places where things are extremely better.

The excuse that the city’s problems are no different than any other big cities continues to lull its residents further and further into passivity and acceptance of the present city management.

One has to wonder when its citizens will realize that enough is enough, for they still continue to talk about how much, “they love the city.”  They need to stop living in the past.  New Orleans ain't what it use to be.