I hear you, brother.
On the other hand, I can’t help wondering...if the billion and a half dollars spent by the government on New Orleans relief thus far had been divided per capita among the residents thereof, each would have received nearly a half-million dollars in cash. Do you suppose they could have bought new houses and started their lives over with that amount of cha-ching?
A lot more went to waste than fraud, IMHO, and hasn’t stopped yet.
Oh, there's no question there. But just like every big government program, the money never gets to those who really need it.
Reagan proved in his "Up from Dependency" report that at that time, we could have dismantled the welfare system and sent a check for $18,000 to every single family under the poverty level.
And a lot of that N.O. money that didn't go to waste or fraud went to rebuild the tourist areas.