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New Orleans rebuilding request...something to think about
Simple math plus Census data
| Aug. 23, 2006
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Posted on 08/23/2006 7:45:37 AM PDT by econjack
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It's this kind of nonsense that makes me ask why the federal government is giving one red cent to the private sector in New Orleans. If you chose not to buy flood insurance for your home, you gambled and you lost...not my problem. If the federal gov't wants to restore its social overhead capital, that may be within the purvue of federal policy. All the rest of the problems are the compound result of inempt gov't by Nagin and perhaps the governor...their problem, not ours.
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:45:38 AM PDT
by
econjack
To: econjack
Please send me just a half a billion. OK, I would settle for 2.37 million but no less. Any less and I would feel repressed.
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:49:04 AM PDT
by
shankbear
To: shankbear
I'd happily take $100,000 and feel "repressed." (sic)
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:52:14 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
A couple of hundred bucks and a bottle of MD 20/20 would make a lot of folks really happy.
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:54:33 AM PDT
by
shankbear
To: econjack
DEFUND THE CORRUPT.
That which is subsidized, flourishes.
STOP feeding the corrupt animal that is Louisiana politics.
STOP feeding the lazy that won't work to feed themselves.
Pouring tax dollars into New Orleans is counterproductive..
If New Orleans can ATTRACT private investment, they deserve the chance to survive.
If they can't, they don't.
Pouring money into New Orleans at this point - is pouring money into a black hole..
Excuse me --- chocolate hole.
There are far too many places along the Gulf that deserve help more than does New Orleans.
Semper Fi
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:57:29 AM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: shankbear
Hey, that $100,000 is just what's in my SS account 'lock box.' Just give that to me next year when I turn 62 and forget about my monthly checks. I'll just consider it a 40yr interest-free loan to the Gov't.
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:58:19 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus; shankbear
Should read,"Just give that back to me..."
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posted on
08/23/2006 7:59:35 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
Investing in that sewerhole of a former city is a total waste of money. It is like bailing out the ocean with a bucket. Just relocate all the people at considerably less cost and let the sea reclaim that place. The environmental wackos would love to start the restoration of the delta right there at NOLA. It was a rathole before Katrina hit.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:04:05 AM PDT
by
shankbear
To: econjack
Gimme, gimme more free money, whine, whine and more whine......
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:12:29 AM PDT
by
Inge_CAV
To: econjack
We don't want to "cut and run" in Iraq, why are we so ready to "cut and run" in NOLA? Federal government built the levees to CAT 3 levels, and a CATT 3 storm destroyed them. Now they need to fix what they broke.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:15:08 AM PDT
by
nolaw0ady
(come for the funeral, stay for the pie.)
To: shankbear
Somehow I doubt that the amounts mentioned are going to be invested in NO. Now, the pockets of NO and LA politicians and insiders is another matter entirely.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:16:02 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: econjack
Al Gore must be wrong about the ocean rising and flooding lowlands.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:17:43 AM PDT
by
mountainlyons
(Hard core conservative)
To: econjack
Gonna need a bigger freezer
To: river rat; Roccus
Too much money dumped in NO will have a perverse influence. Government needs to take care that it does not encourage redevelopment in high risk flood prone areas.
To: nolaw0ady
Your argument supports the absurdity of living below sea level in the first place, not why we should compound the error through repetition.
To: nolaw0ady
Federal government built the levees to CAT 3 levels,
That is truly questionable, don'tcha think?
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:27:48 AM PDT
by
deport
To: delphirogatio
Sure we could move all the people out of southern Louisiana. That would definately fix the problem. Moving all the jews in Israel to Wisconsin or Montana would also fix the mid-east crisis. And attaching wings to frogs would prevent their asses from hitting the ground when they jumped. And placing everyone with HIV on the moon would cure the AIDS crisis.
Other countries are able to protect their cities from water, we can do it too.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:29:42 AM PDT
by
nolaw0ady
(come for the funeral, stay for the pie.)
To: nolaw0ady
How you like the heat up in the DFW area?... I was up there this past weekend and it is oppressive even if it is dry heat.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:29:44 AM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
"How you like the heat up in the DFW area?... I was up there this past weekend and it is oppressive even if it is dry heat."
To me, after it hits 100 degrees it doesn't matter if it's a dry heat or not LOL
It's really nice here though. I think the heat starts to calm down by mid September or so. I remember thinking "wow this weather is awesome" when I first got here after katrina last year. It was in the low 90s with low humidity, which isn't bad at all to me.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:33:49 AM PDT
by
nolaw0ady
(come for the funeral, stay for the pie.)
To: econjack
I want some of that money.
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posted on
08/23/2006 8:33:52 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
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