[jrushing]

OK, You spend 10 billion but that's not enough. Half, 5 billion has to be spent on 50 percent of these funds be spent for 'persons of low and moderate income"
So only 1/2 of the funds will be spent on helping people who owned homes that were actually destroyed.

The other $5 billion may be spent on those most of the people with low and moderate incomes - renters who did not own homes or who were renters.

[nmh]

Demoncrats are ABOVE the law.

They make up the NEW rules as they go along.

Heck, just build them mansions and give them maids and they'll all be happy.

Remember the cruise ship that provided maid service to "homeless" so they'd have less stress in their life? Heck do the same for them on land.

[ncountylee]

The greed of those riding in the wagon never ceases to amaze me.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

My Mother Goose always taught me, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride'.

[umgud]

How do they define "moderate incomes"?

[StJacques]

I'm waiting to see this discussed on BayouBuzz.com and NOLA.com (Times-Picayune). I know that there is a targeted effort to support homeowners who actually live in the houses that will be rebuilt and that a significant motivating factor in passing the legislative appropriation was, at least officially, to bail out homeowners who had flood insurance but received word from their insurance companies that the Katrina deluge was a "hurricane storm surge," which is something different than a "flood." But forget the official justification for the appropriation, the real motivation behind it was to bail out the insurance companies, who would have to come up with billions for flood insurance settlements without this legislation.

Given that payments are scheduled for insurance policy holders who did not receive settlements from their insurers, I doubt the suit described in the article above will have much merit before the court because no judge is going to try to stick the insurance companies with the bill for Katrina to provide money for renters who were not paying insurance premiums in the first place. No way that will happen!

And the real bottom line here is that unless some way is found to "fund" the return of some 150,000 or so relocated African-Americans who will not be able to return to New Orleans on their own, the entire political landscape of Louisiana politics will change significantly. That is why the NAACP is in the mix here.

[Savage Beast]

Life is unfair to the poor.

That's why, born poor, I decided to work hard and become rich. It was a good decision.

[Postal Worker with a gun]

I'm sorry, but why is the government responsible for these people? If a hurricane or tornado destroyed my house, I would be grateful for a shelter for a couple of days and then I would handle things myself. And the shelter would likely be from the Red Cross and not paid for by Washington or Austin.

Most of these people are living better on the governments dole right now than they have ever lived before. So the house/apartment you rented was trashed in the storm. There are other places to live, most these people have moved out of N.O. and have no intention of going back.

I enlisted in the Army at 17 with not much more than the clothes on my back. I have WORKED my whole life for what I have, and when things did not go well, I WORKED HARDER and carried my own weight. And don't start with the racial minority stuff, I am half Hopi Tribe from Arizona and the Native Americans have the longest history of poor treatment of any racial group in the country.

We teach people these days that you need not be responsible anymore. The government will feed, clothe and house you. Just wail about being oppressed or your 5 times removed great-great-great-grandfather may have been a slave. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.