The Port of NO is a VERY important port to all of us. It needs to be rebuilt.
The infrastructure of LA., Miss.,and Al. all need federal help. And yes, that IS Constitutionally under the aegis of the Fed Gov!
In case you have forgotten, we are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. States haves responsibilities, but so too does our government, to states.
I'm not exactly young and I not only remember exactly what things were like pre LBJ, but what things were like, for EVERYONE, under Ike and Truman. Southern poverty, for whites and blacks, wasn't better. Urban crime was lower or higher, depending upon where one was. And as far as education, that too, depended upon just WHERE you lived and went to school.
And there were dropouts and gangs and blacks had a 30% illegitimacy rate in the late '60s, which is now worse, but getting better.
Teachers' unions had nothing to do with the Federal Government and neither did the doing away of Normal Schools and Teachers' colleges.
Please don't get so carried away, that the facts get lost.
I thought it was in the top three of Bush speeches. I didnt hear anything about rebuilding flooded homes....insurance companies or homeowners will foot the bill for that. Going to be a hell of a lot of rail traffic coming down from Canada with wood.
My beef is with the war on poverty aspects of the speech and I stand by that.
You are free to diagree naturally.