Posted on 01/06/2013 7:25:47 PM PST by i88schwartz
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) criticizes Congress for not hastily appropriating federal money for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in New York and New Jersey while praising a more prompt response to Hurricane Katrina.
REID: It's too bad that it's taking so long. When we had that devastating [Hurricane] Katrina, we were there within days taking care of Mississippi, Alabama, and especially Louisiana -- within days. We are now past two months with people of New York and the people of New Orleans and that area, they were hurt but nothing in comparison to what happened to the people in New England.
A million people lost their homes. A million people lost their homes. That's homes, that's not people in those homes. So, I think it's just really unfortunate that we don't have the relief for New York and New Jersey and the rest of New England already. It has to be done. We have to meet the needs of the American people when an act of God occurs. (U.S. Senate floor, January 4, 2013)
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Somehow I’m having trouble feeling sorry for folks who had homes on the beach and failed to take basic precautions.
These folks are insisting taxpayers pay for their lack of flood insurance. The politicians are also loading this bill chock full of pork.
Sorry, I bought a home built to withstand everything up to a Cat 3. I maintain my property to protect it from storm damage.
a million people lost their homes. I had not heard this. Is this correct?
sort of. 1,000,000 is the number used most frequently to describe the number of people that were displaced by katrina.
Those that had federal flood insurance should have been paid at least a month ago but congress hasn't passed a law to pay those claims and that is the responsibility of the government since it is the federal government who issues these flood insurance policies and people pay those premiums every month.
Yes, it is foolish to build your house on sand anywhere near water - the Bible says build your house on rock, not sand.
It is a truism that water will go anywhere it can - it's just waiting for an opening/a hole, of any size. We have to have water to live but that water in mass can destroy everything we have and kill us, too. I have respect for the power of water.
Um, I went through Katrina in Jackson Mississippi - 100 miles inland. Our power was out for weeks, no water, no telephone. If you were within 20 miles of the Mississippi coast, you were dead (unless you were on the third floor). Sandy was just a lot of rain and a big surge, but Katrina brought a 30 ft surge of water.
Reid is so out of line with this it is unbelievable. N.O. a huge % of it’s population to Houston and Jackson because of Katrina.
-PJ
There have been many storms that have hit the same area that have been worse, one in the last century. We know about the carelessness of New Orleans about the canals that collapsed. What about the carelessless of New York politicians who let people build on low-lying ground and shorelines that had been many times flooded over the past two hundred years? By all means, help people , but not by reckless appropriations that will not reach those in need for years if ever. Galveston, TX, was savaged ever bit as much as Staten Island, and today, remains largely fallow. Reid wants to throw money into the volcano.
Houston still has some of those Katrina refugees, the ones who haven’t killed each other in gangland style murders.
Well said. Bravo!
Sick, isn’t it? People think they need government but I point out the Amish-they grow their own food and build their own houses. Nothing like self sufficiency.
Boo Hoo on the east coast. One of the things that certainly helped during Katrina was because Houston took in so many of the people from there. And we have been paying for it ever since. When Ike hit it was obvious early on that there would be no help beyond what we received from our own insurance - which is state mandated by the way if you live in certain ZIP codes. I’m sorry for those people that lost their homes but that’s what you have insurance for.
That’s exactly what I was wondering. Odd.
ridiculous....just the immediate coast was damaged by Sandy...Katrina,on the Mississippi coast alone...everything was swept clean from within 12 blocks of the coast. If Katrina had hit the Sandy “coast”, there’d have been 3000 killed.
“Is Reid suggesting that Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin were exemplary in their response to Katrina?”
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LOL. Perhaps some kind soul could post the picture of all of those unused school buses that could have saved lives.
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Bingo
Took 15 Posts to get to the answer.
If this had happened to the darker set the money would have been there.
Thanks i88schwartz.
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