"Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
Comparing the rebuilding of New Orleans to a man who builds his house on the rock? Oh, yeah, that's real swift. As Allahpundit writes (via Hot Air):
Now, brethren, let’s apply that parable to the tragedy of New Orleans. New Orleans was built on shifting delta soil 16 feet below sea level. Its water table is so shallow that the dead are buried above ground. Without the levees, New Orleans can’t survive any storm at all. Lake Pontchartrain will flood most of it, as we saw two years ago. It’s also probably America’s most corrupt city, and in particular the levee board was run more along lines of patronage and favors than competence. The police force had ghost officers, and many of its real ones abandoned their posts after the storm. The mayor failed to execute a key component of the region’s storm strategy, leaving thousands stranded while city-owned buses sat unused, and eventually flooded. Many of them were less than a mile from the Superdome. The governor dithered and dodged and cried and she blocked the Red Cross from delivering supplies to the Dome. Lining New Orleans up with the parable, was it built on a foundation of rock, or a foundation of sand?
