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.
Uncle Sham wrote: "Compulsory compassion is a good way to describe what you've been receiving from Louisiana's oil and gas production all these years."
Now I know you're baiting me, but I'll bite. First, no one is forcing Louisiana to sell its oil and gas production. Second, it isn't Louisiana's oil in the first place. It belongs to the companies who have invested their time and money to produce it.
Even if we (the rest of the US) were looting Louisiana for years, who determines how much we owe you? What if we've only looted $50 billion in gas and oil and the hurricane recovery is going to cost $200 billion? Certainly you aren't advocating taking more than you deserve, because that would make you just as bad as the rest of us looters.
Are you sure you want to get into a tit for tat as to which states are more or less valuable to the nation?
Louisiana has contributed so much corruption and poor government that you should be charged for it, imo.
Really? You mean LA didn't get fair market price for the fuels they sold on the open market? Were they really selling at gun-point? You mean the federal government didn't subsidize any of the development of the Port of NO? You mean the oil depletion give-aways during the decades of the '60's-'90's was unfair to those who work in the oil industry in LA? Hmmm...I must have missed something...