Posted on 09/01/2007 5:56:39 AM PDT by NapkinUser
With the amount of money that has been spent, NO should have been re-built TWICE. Yet still, we are treated to these weepy “news” specials about how bad everything still is down there and how “America doesn’t care”. Frankly, I’m over it.
The same people doing the most whining are the same ones who have done NOTHING to help themselves. I do NOT support re-building the 9th ward- leave it to the sea. Shut off the tax funded gravy train and those who are still collecting Katrina money while living in other states (we have quite a few in the Atlanta area) need to be kicked to the curb and told to get a job.
Once that is done, it’s time that “Chocolate Ray” and Blanco are investigated. That money has gone SOMEWHERE and even a couple of dopes like these can’t “lose” it ALL.
“If that’s who YOU are, follow him. Not me.”
Spoken like a true government educated socialist.
Shocking!
The truth of the matter is that all those homes should have been purchased and the land returned to swampland.
I’m not a Tancredo-for-prez supporter, but I SURE DO like this kind of spending-straight-talk.
If we could only transfer some of the enthusiam for the FT boondoggle and apply it to the clear-and-present dangers like the Katrina Cash Toss.
If we keep spending money like this and encouraging reliance on the fedgov, then we’ll have the United Socialist States of America (USSA) so quick that we’ll WISH we had the NAU instead! =/
These people obviously have internet access. The truth is not hard to find if they want to know it.
Freepers might also want to look up the meaning of the words scale or scope when discussing this disaster. To compare this to a tornado or a midwestern flood, while those are very traumatic and damaging to the individuals involved, is in itself showing a complete lack of knowledge of the scope of the damage in this region. It is easy to say "neighbor helping neighbor" when you actually HAVE neighbors who did not suffer a complete loss. But it is a different thing when your "neighbors" for mile after mile after mile also lost everything. It is different when you still can go to the grocery store 6 blocks away. It is different when you can still go to your job next week. It is different when you can go to a motel temporarily a few blocks away. ALL of those things were destroyed down here. I realize that nothing we will say or post will make any difference to most posters but what the hell, that has never stopped me before.
for the 1994 earthquake, Fema came to my house.
To replace a broken window, repair a cracked tile, and lift the house up and put it back on the foundation,
THEY WROTE ME A CHECK FOR $200.00.
HMMM, well I wasn’t given enough money for those repairs, but... I’m sure the katarina victims got more for their whoes than I did.
SEE POST #22, How much is enough. How many freezers of COLD CASH do we need to find. Louisiana is awash with corruption and we are suppose to forget it and keep the money rolling in. sadly you are probably going to get your wish. We will once again be thrown under the bus while the politicians keep showing us how compassionate they are, WITH OUR MONEY.
Post 22 is so full of errors it only proves the point I was making.
and those errors are!
Money isn’t wasted....After all- Jesse and Al need to
eat, and party, when in the city..Nooo Oleans...and the
Mayor, a Buck always stops there..unless it is in the
freezer of Democratic Congressman from Louisiana..Jackson? JK
The other thing is, as I recently heard Raymond Arroyo of EWTN (native New Orleans resident) say: they are throwing good money after bad, becuase they are rebuilding in parts of the city which are not sustainable, because they are going to be flooded again.
BWAHAAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAA.... You can't be serious? You use Wikipedia as a source of information and expect it to be correct? Ohhhh.....my stomach hurts from laughing!
- A loss of shame on the part of those who are able of body and mind who are content to be supported by the hard work of others while they engage in profligate actions. This is the epidemic addiction to what I call 'OPM' - 'other people's money.'
Well, for starters, I would hope you would have taken my hint and tried to use your internet access to look for it yourself but let me help you out.
The population of New Orleans was not 1.4 million pre Katrina. The population of the greater N.O. area was 1.4 million and that includes several surrounding parishes.
Secondly, the 114 billion has been authorized but all of it hasn’t reached yet and the 114 billion was allocated for 5 states and three hurricanes. Not all of that went to N.O.
Tancredo is right, and I respect him for having the boldness to state it.
So your solution is what? Send more money.
Also I see you got the talking points down. But still, Louisiana got around 60 billion according to the state's own governor.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco and other state officials noted that the $114 billion figure Tancredo referred to was an allocation spread among five states in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
In a statement, Blanco said Louisiana's share was about $60 billion
And WatchOutForSnakes is from Louisiana too. Funny how only people here with Louisiana state flags on their respective FreeRepublic homepages seem to think New Orleans ain’t getting enough money.
60 billion isn’t 114 billion is it? I was pretty good at math in school but that was a long time ago. Also, a lot of that 60 billion was for emergency levee repairs, emergency housing, debris pickup, etc., leaving about 26 billion for actual infrastructure repairs, rebuilding, etc.
Now before anybody says, “but they still got 26 billion”, that’s a lot of money. And believe it or not, the majority of people down here are very grateful. We are also extremely grateful to the faith based groups, churchs, volunteers, etc. who have come down and made some enormous contributions to the recovery. My whole point is to find the facts and for people to not be so superior about what is going on down here.
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