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Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:36 pm to Burt Reynolds
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Flooding would be an improvement for that neighborhood
Well it's mostly a flood zone X so....
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:37 pm to GEAUXT
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Isn't his pension like $175,000
Yes.
Wanna ask Becker what he gets?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 3:51 pm to Breesus
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Wanna ask Becker what he gets?
I gotta figure it's going to be pretty much 100% of his current salary for the rest of his life. He submitted retirement papers this morning after 30 years with SWB. Government retirement plans (if they're part of the state's retirement system) net you right at 100% of your salary after 30 years of service (usually fewer years for cops and firefighters) regardless of how you separated from the job. All that determines what you get is how vested you are and what you are entitled to on the day you formally separate.
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 8/10/17 at 5:09 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Bumped because I wanted to punch Mitch in the face through my television just now for once again deflecting. 
Posted on 8/10/17 at 5:15 pm to LurkerTooLong
Is is flooding anywhere yet?
If Mitch gets elected or appointed to anything after all of this, there are more idiots in the world than we thought.
If Mitch gets elected or appointed to anything after all of this, there are more idiots in the world than we thought.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:28 pm to Gris Gris
How are these peoples pensions funded, yet the firefighters pensions were not?
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:33 pm to elleshoo9
Firefighters union made some very bad investments and the city stopped paying their share for about 30 years.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:34 pm to Placebeaux
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This mother f***** spent the last eight months focusing on Statue removal instead of having the city's pump system ready for hurricane season. I don't know what to tell you New Orleans but elections got f****** consequences.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:36 pm to 4cubbies
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I'm in the 7th ward
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4cubbies
Shopping for some of that BBC.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:45 pm to Tall Tiger
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What this city needs now are the best hydraulic engineers flown in from the Netherlands to fix these pumps.
They don't need engineers, it is not difficult a technical problem, most of the pumps and motors were installed at the turn of the century. They should have been replaced 75 years ago, that they were not is the problem and it was caused by the gross mismanagement of the city for the last 100 years.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 6:55 pm to EA6B
Agreed. Get a badass rotating equipment team from one of the local plants and a decent budget and this shite will be fixed quickly.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:06 pm to Tall Tiger
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What this city needs now are the best hydraulic engineers flown in from the Netherlands to fix these pumps.
The irony in that is the Netherlands originally asked the SWB to help them like a century ago.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:07 pm to Gris Gris
Not just Mitch but every single City Council member minus Stacy Head who has been on the SWB's arse like white on rice.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:54 pm to ihometiger
Two Sewerage and Water Board members resigned LINK
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Scott Jacobs, who served as president pro tem of the board, said he resigned because he felt the agency's employees had been forced to take the fall for major infrastructure issues City Hall had never been forced to grapple with.
"City Hall has known for years that drainage is inadequate," Jacobs said. "I’m disappointed that instead of standing up and saying this is a problem, and now the’s time to deal with it, we’re going to shoot a civil servant an hour until this problem is resolved."
The real problem, he said, is that no one has forced a conversation about the enormous investment needed to fully upgrade and modernize the system to deal with storms and rainwater. Those root issues, he said, are to blame for Saturday's flooding and Thursday's power issues as S&WB's plant.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:58 pm to wizziko
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City Hall has known for years that drainage is inadequate," Jacobs said. "I’m disappointed that instead of standing up and saying this is a problem, and now the’s time to deal with it, we’re going to shoot a civil servant an hour until this problem is resolved."
It takes two to tango. Hes just as complicit in knowing about inadequate infrastucture and only disclosing it now.
Why wait to resign now?
Eta- this dude is full of shite.
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The real problem, he said, is that no one has forced a conversation about the enormous investment needed to fully upgrade and modernize the system to deal with storms and rainwater. Those root issues, he said, are to blame for Saturday's flooding and Thursday's power issues as S&WB's plant.
Has he ever heard of a Hurricane called Katrina???
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:58 pm to wizziko
The political elites of NOLA are abandoning Mitch faster than an August rainstorm flooding Lakeview.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 7:59 pm to PsychTiger
People on this board are so damn ignorant when talking Nola. The 7th ward is pretty damn big, it isn't all dumps and trap houses.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 8:00 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Government retirement plans (if they're part of the state's retirement system) net you right at 100%
This is wrong. 30 years would have you at 75%.
Posted on 8/10/17 at 8:02 pm to wizziko
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is that no one has forced a conversation about the enormous investment needed to fully upgrade and modernize the system to deal with storms and rainwater.
...good job Scott on waiting until NOW to force a conversation...
so many heroes, after the fact
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