Michael Franc
Michael Franc
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He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region,
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If government continues to do things with enormous effects on business, they'll just find another way to protect their interests. There's too much at stake to walk away.
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It's going to push some people who are at the margins of being able to afford it into the consumer category.
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They did a lot of tier-two issues that were important to certain constituencies but that, in and of themselves, were not of any great magnitude. It was not a year for, obviously, enactment or even action on tier-one issues.
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The legislative calendar is shorter and, almost by definition in an election year, tempers will be shorter, too.
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It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.
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It is once in a generation that an opportunity like this comes along, where the status quo is called into question and where the policy community and Congress can look at it, change it and improve it. Given how hard it is to change that status quo ... every policy organization, every think-tanker, every ex-Cabinet officer is going to have a vision, and even a plan, of what we should be doing.
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What you have here is a unique opportunity where the entire infrastructure of a pretty big region was decimated -- both the social infrastructure and the economic one,
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What we have is a chance for Congress and president to take a really long hard look at 40 years of social welfare failure in that region and try to reverse that. You don't want to reconstitute the New Orleans school system the way it was. You don't want to reconstitute public housing projects the way they were. You want to change it.
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If these ideas are given a fair chance in New Orleans and the gulf area, ... their popularity and success will create a momentum for expanding them elsewhere.
They'd (lawmakers) would like to get a lot of these things out of the way before the end of the year.