A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon she's gonna be talking about real money.
Today Gov. Blanco requested $20.2 billion to repair levees and infrastructure in the State of Louisiana. First, an accounting of the misspent and misappropriated federal funds and the indicted New Orleans Levee Board parties, i.e. Michael Brown (former FEMA director)would be in order.
Obviously,she must have been 'counseled' to slide in an additional couple of billion more(chump change)under the rug for the 'Family Recovery Corps' project to be led by her personal appointee James Witt from the private sector. (formerly head of FEMA under the Clinton Administration.)
Blanco was unable to respond to media questions as to how the funds would be meted to the families in need of assistance. This is a transparently feeble attempt to waste federal monies on a project which is ill-timed, and, in all probability, ill-fated. The federal government will implement federal programs for federal projects. Why would this responsiblity be handed over to the State which had performed an irreponsible job in prevention and management due to its acculturated problems with corruption and graft??
While the State of Louisiana is still submerged in devastation, this unmitigated stunt is not going to go unnoticed. The people of Louisiana do not deserve this level of incompetentence on the part of its highest official.
The Louisiana dem constituency living out of state have expressed no real plans to come back to Louisiana to live... let alone just to vote for Blanco, etal in November 2007. Why would they? There is an utter loss of faith on the part of the evacuees towards all of the officials "in charge" of the evac-recover from Katrina.
Louisiana citizens are counting the minutes until this regime is no longer holding their state's fiscal future in its lethal grip. Twelve Noon, January 14th, 2008 is 27 months too far long to wait to take appropriate action!
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