Katrina

[39mto39g]

The FEMA group is about to cut funding off for hurican (victums?)
They that still live in Motel/Hotel at 4million a day at taxpayers expence will be booted Dec 1.
Its about time.

Ron

[PHO127]

I Survived Hurricane Katrina and All I Got was this 52" sony Trinitron TV and a pair of Nikes.

[39mto39g]

has just anounced that there will be 1,800 single family houses in the southern states provided to hurrican (victums?) rent free for 18 months.

Ron

[b3196]

Sid
You did better than me......All I got was 3000 displaced unemployeed people to look after
Bob K

[catman]

All the folks they were going to move up this way refused. Said it was too cold and demanded to be relocated someplace warmer! Thank God for the frozen tundra!

Trav

[SuperScout]

Louisiana lawmakers have come up with a request for $250 billion in federal reconstruction funds for Louisiana alone. That's more than $50,000 per person in the state. This money would come on top of the $62.3 billion that Congress has already appropriated for emergency relief and on top of payouts from businesses, national charities and insurers.

According to Senator Mary Landrieu (D, LA), author of the Louisiana bill, "Louisiana will be rebuilt by Louisianans. New Orleans will be rebuilt by New Orleans. And the Southern Louisiana will be rebuilt under the leadership of the people who call it home." Yet, the bill waves the normal cost-sharing requirements to shift the entire cost to the federal government. In other words, Ms Landrieu is expecting federal taxpayers to foot 100 percent of the bill. (Now, what was that about Louisiana being rebuilt by Louisinans?)

We are talking about a lot of money here. The $250 billion will cost $1,900 per American household. That being said, I thought it would be informative to know what we are asked to pay for. A not so quick read of the 440 page bill soon demonstrated that the Louisiana lawmakers stuffed it with everything they could think of including many items having nothing to do with hurricane relief. The items include:

$35,000,000 for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board

$8,000,000 for direct financial assistance to alligator farmers

$12,000,000 for the restoration of wildlife management areas

$25,490,073 to complete the Sugarcane Research Laboratory

$120,000,000 for a laboratory, facilities and equipment at the Southern Regional Research Center

$28,300,000 for the restoration and rehabilitation of forest lands

$34,193,591 to support the research and education activities of the Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

$19,000,000 for the acquisition of first-responder mobile communications, deployable cellular towers and for equipment necessary for public Internet access in a 100-block area of downtown New Orleans using wireless-fidelity technology.

$250,000,000 for assistance to firefighters

$100,000,000 for early intervention, prevention, and disorder treatment for school age children.

$100,000,000 for substance abuse assessment, early intervention, prevention, and treatment.

$600,000,000 for early childhood education

$20 million for the establishment of development plans for development districts in the State of Louisiana

$160 million to implement the 2005 recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission related to the Federal city development in Algiers, Louisiana

$7 billion for rebuilding evacuation and energy supply routes on top of $5 billion for expansion of road and transit capacity.

$150 million for a small business loans fund and tax breaks on top of $50 billion in block grants.

... and this in only a partial list. The pork continues......

[39mto39g]

The insurence companies should be the first to have to pay, If there is no insurence? then the city should help, if the city can't help then the county should help then the state should help and lastly the USof A should be asked to help, (not made to help)
Its not fair to ask someone in Montana to pay for a dumb ass that lives 12 feet below sea level to rebuild that same location and wait for next year.
If a homeowner can get a city offical to issue a building permitt to build a home 12 feet below sea level, than that building permitt department should be held accountable for damages occured when said home floods. And not the insurence companies that have to write a policy or the US taxpayers.

Ron

[QM3steve]

Let's hope the government can perform the line item veto.

[Jerry D]

18 months rent free after moving out of Public housing "America What a Country"
Thats a lot of Pork for Louisiana and they don't want federal over-site either??? Seems like a good time to be a state politician in Louisiana unless your the Governor or Mayor of N.O. maybe we can get the same prosecutor who went after Enron to take a look at the Books in Louisiana now!