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To: LS

I just think that $185 million could have been better spent on fixing neighborhoods or levies then on the dome.


6 posted on 09/26/2006 6:04:32 AM PDT by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: Hydroshock

I wondered about that, too. Especially when you see some neighborhoods looking exactly as they did a year ago, as if flattened by a bomb. I think they'd like to think that this will help with visitors coming in and spending money, creating jobs, building the economy. IF they can host another Super Bowl soon, and get other tourism dollars rolling again, it would be helpful, a real help toward rebuilding. But it doesn't do much for the families still displaced. Or the levees. It seems awkward, to say the least, that FEMA can shell out that kind of dough, part of it (I gather from other posts) a gift, not even a loan, while families with mortgages on what is now nothing aren't getting a similar 'gift'.


78 posted on 09/26/2006 6:50:23 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: Hydroshock
I just think that $185 million could have been better spent on fixing neighborhoods or levies then on the dome.

Most of the money spent down there was money down a drain, or perhaps a sewer would be a better analogy.

80 posted on 09/26/2006 6:59:29 AM PDT by ladyjane
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