THE NUMBER ONE INDUSTRY ON THE GULF COAST - FROM NEW ORLEANS TO BILOXI - WAS TOURISM.
It will take some time to rebuild the hotels and restaurants and nightclubs and casinos, (and ALL the secondary services industries which support those enterprises). Since neither the primary or support businesses that cater to tourism are operating, it seems logical to conclude that tourism on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans is "dead" for the time being.
BUT MAYBE THERE'S A WAY WE CAN JUMP-START IT RIGHT NOW!?
Let's start a new form of tourism: VOLUN-TOURISM. What we can do is get the feds to set up some trailers and tents all over the region for VOLUNTEERS, who will:
I got the idea when a fellow alum from Tulane emailed me that she was going to set up a college reunion for this Spring in New Orleans - so we could paper the city with our money while nostalgically recounting and reliving our glory days in the city we all love.
How 'bout it? How about spreading the word? Maybe we can make this happen for ALL the alumni from all the colleges down there, and for everyone else who loves the Gulf Coast and wants to participate in the rebirth of the region - and speed it along as much as possible.
It will take some time to rebuild the hotels and restaurants and nightclubs and casinos, (and ALL the secondary services industries which support those enterprises). Since neither the primary or support businesses that cater to tourism are operating, it seems logical to conclude that tourism on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans is "dead" for the time being.
BUT MAYBE THERE'S A WAY WE CAN JUMP-START IT RIGHT NOW!?
Let's start a new form of tourism: VOLUN-TOURISM. What we can do is get the feds to set up some trailers and tents all over the region for VOLUNTEERS, who will:
"Voluntourists" - instead of taking an entirely hedonistic vacation - would get to see the ravaged Gulf Coast and the heroic people of the region up-close while directly helping some people there make a new and better life - and they'd also be indirectly helping the whole nation because they'd be SPENDING money in the region.(a) pay their own way to the Gulf Coast and
(b) pay for their room and board while doing UNPAID VOLUNTEER work on a reclaimation project - like helping to build a home with Habitat for Humanity, or or helping to clean a school, or well - just about anything.
I got the idea when a fellow alum from Tulane emailed me that she was going to set up a college reunion for this Spring in New Orleans - so we could paper the city with our money while nostalgically recounting and reliving our glory days in the city we all love.
How 'bout it? How about spreading the word? Maybe we can make this happen for ALL the alumni from all the colleges down there, and for everyone else who loves the Gulf Coast and wants to participate in the rebirth of the region - and speed it along as much as possible.
4 comments:
That is a great idea!!! Free labor for Halliburton and other contractors with Federal dollars. That will maximize profit for our beloved corporations and free them from the burden of large payrolls and workers insurance. This initiative should channel through the GOP to secure that the political gains from the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast is not misinterpreted as a Liberal accomplishment, after all it will be the largest social project the country have ever seen. Volunteers can be recruited form the Young Republican National Federation, since very few of them have enlisted to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan there should be plenty idle bodies to fill the numbers needed. May I suggest that they were a distinctive clothing to make them easily recognizable to the rest of the population when they are seen working in the underprivileged communities, may be black shirts with an armband with the GOP initials wil do nicely. Every work day should be initiated with the Pledge of Allegiance and topped by performing Hail to the Chief carrying pictures of our beloved President and his Saintly Mother, Protector of all underprivileged colored people.
ROY -
pklease tell me what's wrong with doing more than sending a chariy a check?
jimmy carter does volunteer work with HAbiata for Humanity, why shouldn't more people do it, now - in the Katrina Zone?
that would help the Gulf Coast residents more than it would the GOP or Bush or Halliburton.
but you are so deranged you can;t see that.
sick.
roy: you are HILARIOUS!
i do hope you intended on spoofing the BDS left - because the halliburton schtick and young republican references WERE PRICELESS!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And the part about denigrating volunteerism! FUNNY! And comparing volunteers to nazis - WHOOOOOWEEE, (that was SO deranged it sounded like michael moore!)!!!!
and the anti-pledge bit - right on the heels of the recent idiotic circuit court decision banning the pledge - is RIGHT ON! it really makes the comment seem real.
and also: putting down the former first lady was really perfect, becasue we all know how much the left hates her!
and then, when you called blacks "colored" - that was right on, too; after all the left feels that Bush - (who appointed the first Sec of State who is black, and the second, too) - is a racist, and that Rice and Powell (and the retired #2 at DoJ, Larry Thompson) are merely "HOUSE SLAVES" to the left.
wow: your unbelieveably on-target sarcastic comment really shows the world how idiotic the left has become.
thanks. you have done a PERFECT imitation of a left-wing ASSHOLE afflicted with BDS.
perfect. thanks sooooo so so so so so so very VERY much.
i will leave your comment on FOREVER, because it illustrates PERFECTLY why the Left and the Democrat Party (which is trapped by the Left) - ARE DOOMED.
Good Riddance.
here are some links to orgs that sponsor VOLUNTOURISM to foreign countries.
they should start some to the gulf coast, NO!?
http://www.gcsfoundation.org/voluntours.html
http://www.voluntourism.org/faq.html
http://ca.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb276313.htm
http://www.thaitourism.com/articles/08_05_1.asp
http://www.kiwanis.org/magazine/0905sravlntsm.asp
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