[econjack]

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.

[shankbear]

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.

[river rat]

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

[Inge_CAV]

Gimme, gimme more free money, whine, whine and more whine......

[nolaw0ady]

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.

[mountainlyons]

Al Gore must be wrong about the ocean rising and flooding lowlands.

[stainlessbanner]

Gonna need a bigger freezer

[Tzimisce]

I want some of that money.

[TChris]

More interesting math re: one billion:

• A stack of one billion dollar bills would be over 60 miles tall
• If a man began working full time at the age of 20, working 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 52 weeks per year, no vacation, no holidays, no sick days, and if he was to retire at age 65, he would have to make an average of $10,683 an hour to earn $1 billion in his whole career.
• Or, another way of looking at it, if you were given $1 billion on your 20th birthday, you could spend $10,683 an hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year and not run out of cash until your 65th birthday.
• If you're Bill Gates, multiply those amounts by 50. $534,150 per hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 45 years.

[WatchOutForSnakes]

I've seen this nonsense posted before. It's so simplistic it's embarrassing. The 250 billion number thrown out there by Landrieu early on was not going to happen and nobody took it seriously. Even allowing that it was serious, it assumes that every cent goes to the people ONLY in New Orleans. It also assumes that nothing goes to infrastructure repair or overhead to FEMA or other agencies managing the recovery.

It makes for good bashing material for those so inclined but other than that it's pretty meaningless.

[Venator]

Do you have a citation for the Landrieu aid request?

[Joan Kerrey]

Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .

To even consider this is outrageous. To even consider rebuilding New Orleans is outrageous. The area has always been a catastrophy waiting to happen, it is now and it will be in the future. To throw money at that area is utterly ridiculous. For government to insure what insurance companies won't touch is outrageous. At some point someone has to hold people accountable for their decisions to live in areas that are dangerous and likely to be wiped out sooner or later.

[nolaw0ady]

I had no idea there were so many chickshit pussy people on this site. Hopefully this post is enough to get my account closed, because the people on this site are worthless do-nothings. Bye assholes!

[SlowBoat407]

Let's ask Hizb'allah. They seem to be throwing around a lot of rebuilding money.