Posted on 09/19/2005 5:00:32 PM PDT by Reagan Man
It is really not so much the cost, but WHO IS GOING TO PAY IT...the taxpayers or the states and their people??
You got it.
And then the question becomes what we taxpayers are going to pay for. The federal government should under no circumstances dirrectly underwrite the costs of rebuilding private assets. I guarantee that no matter how appealing and compassionate this might sound in the monen t of tragedy, in the long run, anyne who implemented such a policy would be savaged by the stories of abuse and fraud that would flow from such a program as surely as human nature.
On the other hand, I'd support loan gurantees to help folks get private mortgages to rebuild. It could be structured sort of like the old VA mortgage program. I'd support loans to local governments to help them restore their infrastructure.
I'd support direct expenditure in areas where the federal governement has primary responsibility such as for navigable waterways and flood control. Maybe the improvement of the leveee system is an appropriate place for the expenditure of federal funds.
Otherwise, I say put away the checkbook, and quick.
The American taxpayer.
talk radio starting to issue cautionary tones about today.
Very cautionary tones. Hannity was right on the money and if you read between the lines, Rush isn't happy either.
"Just stop your whining guys and stop attacking the President for everything under the sun."
Its not everything under the sun. Its just the fact that he's a fiscal liberal. Really... You can't deny it.
Ronald Reagan spent BILLIONS on defeating the Soviet Union.
Evidently SAVING American lives is not a worthy cause to some so called conservatives.
National private charities (Red Cross, Salvation Army, others), faith based charities and caring Americans are doing a tremendous job in helping those individuals hit hard by this disaster.
LOL---why am I not surprised that YOU are the one posting this article...
FWIW....I am a hugh Pence fan, as well as Jeb Hensarling, from my state...and Jeff Flake from Arizona..and the others in that conservative group....I wish them much, much success.
However, I will not walk over Bush's body to get to them...doncha know!
So, we are not on opposite sides...we just have different views of the same side!!!!
I will help you with your rebuttal:
"But he spends like a drunken sailor, the medicare pill bill, education bill, and now Katrina, blah, blah, blah...". Go ahead....
I've already written my congresscritters, but since they're all Dims (I'm trapped in Land of the Moonbats[tm]! Pray for me!) I truly doubt that THEY'LL close the wallets.
I know Congress holds the purse strings, but from the massive pork they just passed, our President needs to LEAD here and goad the Republican majority to CUT CUT CUT!!!
It can be done! All that is needed is the political will. I'm skeptical because of the recent rampant spending with talk (but no action) on cuts. I hope our folks come to their senses, and fast. Everybody who cares about their bottom line needs to be making themselves heard, as loudly as possible. CUT the pork from the transportation and energy bills! NOW is the time to revisit them, and not listen to DeLay (who says-- OMG I can't believe he said this-- we've already cut "to the bone"-- uh, no).
So all you have to do is pour enough pork into Louisiana and even those who claim to be fiscal conservatives can be brought around.
You just said why it won't be done. Congress lacks the will to stop spending, and President Bush lacks the will to use the veto to change that.
No, cutting spending and cutting government are the ultimate acts of fiscal conservatism. This president doesn't believe in that.
Republicans split over whatever...
The ones that "leave"...where do they go with their vote? Do they stay home on election day?
Another Perot-type candidate may emerge...and that would see history repeating itself by electing a Clinton to the Presidency with less than 44% of the popular vote.
IOW, what? Me worry??
There is NO WAY Hillary Clinton will be elected President. NONE ZILCH NADA.
...Ignores the dangers of NO border enforcement...And promised to appoint a Scalia-Thomas type justice to the Supreme Court, Dubya is (fill-in-the-blank.)
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