New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Courtesy photo, Fox News

Politicians are falling all over themselves by promising billions more of your tax dollars for the hopeless purpose of restoring New Orleans to its former decadent glory.

The idea is to rebuild the underwater city devastated by Hurricane Katrina, so its former inhabitants can be victimized again and again by future storms. This is called "compassion."

The politicians forcibly take the money from you, bestow it upon a rebuilding effort that should never take place and then slap themselves on the back for all their hard work and sacrifice.

Now, don't get me wrong. I take a backseat to no one in my love of New Orleans. I love the city. I love the smells. I love the food. I love the music. It just so happens I was scheduled to be in New Orleans when Katrina hit.

But, guess what? I didn't go there. I heard the weather report. For the life of me, I can't figure out why so many idiots stayed there, putting not only their own lives at risk but those of rescuers as well.

At least part of the city has been destroyed. And it should never be rebuilt, again. You know who is calling for it to be rebuilt at any cost? The same idiots who didn't lift a finger to evacuate the city – people like Mayor Ray Nagin, whose legacy will always be that photograph of an armada of school buses submerged in the big muddy.

Joining him are Sen. Barack Obama, former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Hillary Clinton – all of whom don't see any reason to limit the spending on rebuilding the underwater city. Good thing these folks weren't around in the days of Atlantis!

So far $6 billion has already been spent – and that's just beginning if the politicians have their way. They are encouraging everybody to move back, put their lives at risk again and just let the American taxpayer worry about the cost.

It's irresponsible. It's reckless. It's the worst kind of pandering, waste and fraud.

Somebody's got to say it: New Orleans, the party's over! Your city is still sinking – slowly but surely year after year. It will only get more difficult in the future to keep the floodwaters at bay. There are parts of your city that can be salvaged. But it makes no sense to try to reclaim parts of the city where even the residents and businesses never bothered to return.

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To the people who think of the federal government as some big insurance agency that makes everyone whole following disasters of every sort, I have an even harsher message: Farah to race-baiters, blame-gamers – drop dead.

I am so sick of hearing about how Hurricane Katrina was a manmade catastrophe. Not so. We have plenty of manmade catastrophes involved with New Orleans. I can name them: Nagin, Obama, Edwards, Clinton. But, I have news for you: Katrina was a real storm. And there are more of them out there with New Orleans' name on it.

Instead of urging residents to come back without a clue as to how they will live and work, let alone how they will cope with the next Big One, wouldn't it make more sense to focus the effort on rebuilding the parts of New Orleans that can be protected? Wouldn't that be the prudent and responsible move? Shouldn't the politicians be encouraging those who lived in the most at-risk neighborhoods to move to higher ground? Don't good neighbors give good advice to one another?

Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

I wonder how much of their own money Nagin, Obama, Edwards and Clinton are investing in businesses in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans?

Nothing, you say? How can that be? Why is it that this is a good investment for you and I to make – so good we're not even given a choice – but the very people agitating for more are not risking any of their own capital? It seems inconceivable. Surely there must a good reason!

Why doesn't Edwards just transfer some of those hedge fund investments over to the dike and levee fund?

Why doesn't Nagin set up his own new offices there in the Lower 9th?

Why doesn't Hillary buy some real estate there for her presidential library?

Why doesn't Obama move in his momma?

You know why. Everyone knows why. But still no one has the guts to say enough is enough.