Bush Out of Touch with Louisiana'a Katrina Reality

Baton Rouge Morning Advocate ^ | 1-29-06 | Opinion Page Staff

[Uncle Sham]

Avoid the truth if you must.

[lOKKI]

"I want to remind the people in that part of the world, $85 billion is a lot.

In the abstract, sure. It’s a lot of money. But as a senatorial inspection group found the other day, there has not been anywhere near $85 billion worth of progress."

Two comments:

1. I'll settle for .001% of $85 billion, personally.

2. In many countries, the government would fix the roads, the schools, and the hospitals....and that's all. I suspect that the total wouldn't nearly approach $85 billion.

[Logical me]

It's not President Bush that is out of touch, it is you. Guess you haven't been keep up to speed. Government can do just so much, but it is up to the people to get off their butts and go back and work at it. From what I hear, hundreds of thousands of them like it where they are. The problem is if we hand out millions to these people, they would just spend it where they are now. It's up to LA to offer assistance and encouragement to return. Low cost loans can be obtained through the Feds. LA could organize by getting in touch with these people and work with them. Instead, blame the Feds. That's sick.

[Uncle Sham]

Next time you post, get the facts. At least take the time to do that.

[Jessica24]

The Mississippi Gulf Coast is absolutely destroyed, and all we ever, ever hear about is New Orleans.

[Uncle Sham]

"The Mississippi Gulf Coast is absolutely destroyed, and all we ever, ever hear about is New Orleans."

How did you know that the Mississippi gulf coast was absolutely destroyed?

[CajunConservative]

For the record, the state did get hit twice by two major hurricanes in three weeks time. What Katrina missed in Louisiana, Rita destroyed. The Louisiana coast is also gone.

[sinkspur]

Where is Nagin's plan? I have never seen, after a major disaster such as this, an entire city of people sit back and wait for the Feds to come up with a rebuilding plan.

We hear none of this continued whining out of ANYBODY in Mississippi or further west on the Louisiana Coast.

Knowing how corrupt New Orleans' officials have always been, it's difficult for some of the rest of us out here to sympathize with this pity party.

[Uncle Sham]

This plan has been in place for over three months now. Bush saying Louisiana doesn't have a plan is a lie. This plan is a loan, not a federal gimme program. It sets up an agency outside the confines of state government, and local governments to help homeowners get out from under their present mortgages. It buys their property at 60% of pre-katrina levels, then does what it needs to do to attract reinvestors interested in developing the property. The reinvestors are ultimately the ones who repay this original loan. Check the other threads of today for more details. In short, it is a loan program that will be repaid.

[sinkspur]

Three months? Where has it been?

I thought I read this morning that Ray Nagin also has a plan, coming out this week.

From what I read about Baker's plan, nobody in Congress supports it.

[Uncle Sham]

Depends upon what you read I guess. Read this from today.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567503/posts?page=16#16

[Uncle Sham]

I wasn't there. Don't know. It was a different time. Might be worth researching as it is constantly mentioned. Are you going to research it for us and let us know?

[Jessica24]

Well, because my family on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi lost everything they had, and I saw it with my own eyes. That's all.

[Uncle Sham]

I thought everyone in Mississippi was in perfect shape and all recovered and all because Haley Barbour did everything so much better than Blanco did. Are you trying to say that things still suck where you are too? After all, you wouldn't be complaining about not getting any publicity would you? I truly do understand what you are going through. Remember that storm named Hurricane Andrew? The one that hit Florida? No one ever remembers that it hit Louisiana a few days later. What about those poor folks who were wiped clean by Hurricane Rita three weeks after Katrina? Do they even exist? You'd never know it by the MSM.

Jessica, I wish you were doing better over there on the Mississippi coast. It's one of my favorite places. Please tell your fellow freepers what the truth is for everyone's benefit. I'm talking about those know-nothings who keep pointing to the Mississippi victims as though everyone is doing just dandy with Haley Barbour in charge. I know better, but they'd believe you if you explain it to them.

Things will get better. God bless you and good luck.