IronMan04, forgive me if I'm wrong, but you seem to support the $2000.00 cards. Personally, I think $2000 isn't nearly enough. The federal government should certainly give each family $100,000 or maybe even $200,000. With that kind of money, the recovery would go much faster. Oh, there is the tiny matter of actually paying for such a generous handout plan, but, oh well, we can worry about that later. The most important thing is compulsory compassion!
Compulsory compassion is a good way to describe what you've been receiving from Louisiana's oil and gas production all these years. We've been having our coastal areas sacrificed so you can toot around all day in your car on cheap gasoline. Do you honestly believe that Louisiana has been fairly compensated for this all of these years? You and others like you have taken our contribution to your lifestyle for granted all these years and now when we are in need, you turn the other cheek.
If it were my choice, I'd tell all of you to either pay your fair share for a problem that effects all of us or allow Louisiana to secede and pay for it's own problems. I'd prefer seccession and the ability to properly reap the economic benefits of our natural resources. It would take us longer to recover but in the long run, we as a state would be far better off. Of course, your budget would suffer due to the higher cost of gasoline and goods. That would be nice as well.
Geez...I hope that was tongue-in-cheek...