Posted on 10/19/2009 9:21:39 AM PDT by sbpublicaffairs
President Obama visited my home town of New Orleans last week, promising more federal aid and fewer bureaucratic snafus for a city still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina. His message was echoed by several senior members of the President's cabinet as they toured the hard-hit region.
And yet, I think most of my fellow New Orleanians, while delighted with his visit, were underwhelmed with the President's rhetoric. Too many of us have heard this message before. Instead of promising more federal funding to rebuild New Orleans, I would like to see President Obama promise less. That's right, less! I would suggest that he immediately begin to phase out all current programs, with the goal of zeroing out all federal Katrina-aid within the next 3 years.
At the same time that the federal aid is being reduced, the President and Congress should, for the same period, eliminate all income, withholding, and business taxes on all citizens and businesses located in the region.
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I don't want to pay to help you live below sea level. Ya'll should just do like they do in the Maldives:
I don't want to pay to help you live below sea level. Ya'll should just do like they do in the Maldives:
A large part of the problem is that they are waiting for someone (Obama, Bush, their congressional delegation, FEMA), or something (the federal government and its treasury), to come along and save them. If the people of San Francisco had done that after the earthquake, they would still be sitting in a pile of charred ruins. How much federal assistance has New Orleans already received? What is there to show for it? What have they done for themselves? How much more federal tax revenue is going to be flushed down this toilet? What is being done to fix the levees and avoid a repeat? What would these people have done if, after initial relief was provided, the feds would have bowed out?
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