[quote=SD Realtor]I know Rus I am thinking of purchasing it as well. In the interview last night the author was telling some of the stories that he has acquired from the website. He said that he wishes he would have put the site together before authoring the book because he said he has received HUNDREDs of stories and the few that he has researched have alone given him enough fuel for yet another book. I think he has received lots of examples that parallel things you have seen and experienced. He recounted one of them from a pair of brothers who tried to do a small subdivision in Florida. They started out as pretty wealthy guys but by the time the city council, local courts, and county agency got done with them they were essentially broke and one of them died from a stroke. The corruption was incalculable. Basically there was nowhere they could turn. I wonder why they couldn’t try the FBI but I assume it was to late at some point.
I am sure you have had some first hand experiences that would make my skin crawl.
With the QUALITY city council we have here I am sure there has been plenty of bad behavior. [/quote]
I lived in New Orleans from 1981-1986. I was working as a Controller for a division of US Home Corporation who at that time was the largest builder in the Country.
While I was there a new “Fad” developed in town where you had these drive through Daiquiri shops where they sold Daiquiri’s in gallon jugs made with 151 proof rum. They also had space inside where you could go in and drink like in a normal bar.
I thought that it would be a good business to rent a van and deliver gallons of the stuff to people laying out by apartment pools, parties etc.
I called Jefferson parrish to inquire about getting a business license. Now, get this, the guy on the other end of the phone told me it would cost me “about $30k” for the “right” to apply for a business license. The license was $100 if I got it.
Now, this guy didn’t know who I was or anything and for a Parrish employee to solicit $30k from someone he didn’t’ even know over the phone indicates how widespread the corruption is with that Government down there.
If people had any idea how corrupt New Orleans and Louisiana were the entire Katrina thing would have been looked at in a different light.
