Yea, but his speech showed more "Compassionate Statism".
I don't think this is very "compassioante" to taxpayers who have been pulling the cart for these same people for decades.
Why didn't President Bush detail the demands he would put on the state and the parishes to pay for this? Even if they can't pay a lot, still the county and state level (and the city) should pay a fair share of this. Many originalists would argue the state should pay ALL the reconstruction. If they can't do that, then LA people will move to other parts of the nation.
I am wrapping up an $103,000 repair/remodel job on my home from the Florida hurricanes of lat year. We Floridians did not get free $2000 debit cards or $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to grease the wheeels. My insurance paid just a fraction of my $103,000, and FEMA ZERO (maybe because I did not apply).
"Compassionate Statism" is the more accurate description. Do not deride conservativism by calling Marxism/statism "compassionate conservatism".
I am wrapping up an $103,000 repair/remodel job on my home from the Florida hurricanes of lat year. We Floridians did not get free $2000 debit cards or $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to grease the wheeels. My insurance paid just a fraction of my $103,000, and FEMA ZERO (maybe because I did not apply).
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You are one of life's lottery winners. Your jealousy of people who might be getting a check that you didn't get does you no good. Would you rather have been living where you are now, or where Katrina came through?
Life isn't fair. You were blessed to have ancestors who believed in hard work, not government handouts. You are richer in every way than the impoverished souls who are being given a "economic stimulus" card worth up to $2000.
Would you have been happier with $2000 instead and a government trailer?