What politicians always do with the money they get from Washington down there.
Throw a party!
Posted on 12/15/2005 10:08:51 AM PST by Ben Mugged
President Bush will request billions more to help rebuild the levee system in New Orleans, Louisiana, Donald Powell, the top federal official for reconstruction, announced Thursday.
"The levee system will be better and safer than it's ever been before," Powell said at the White House.
When asked if the levees would be built to withstand a Category 5 storm, officials used broader language instead, promising that the city's citizens would be safe and the levees would be "stronger and better."
"The federal government is committed to building the best levee system known in the world," said Powell. "It's a complicated issue." (Watch Powell announce more money for New Orleans -- 2:54)
The announcement came after Bush met in the Oval Office with Powell, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
A liberal dump?
My state --Maryland-- needs a new Bay Bridge built .If the Feds are going to start doing the States job for them they can send a few dollars for the new Bridge from Solomons over to the Eastern Shore.
We need it bad the other bridge is loaded to capacity.
One problem with trying to weigh the "merits" of one pork project over another is that it's highly subjective. But the more important problem, to my mind, is the fact that it overlooks the fundamental principle involved, which is that no one has the right to take your money by force to pay for something of which you don't approve.
To discuss which government project is more worthy than another is to surrender that fundamental principle, and that I think we should never do. Once Congress decided in 1913 that the government has a right to your money, the door for endlessly increasing government interference in our lives was opened.
And when we say "government", of course, we're only talking about fellow citizens who happen to work in public-sector jobs. They're no wiser than we are, no more logical, and no more moral. They have no more wisdom in spending our money than we do. I think most people would agree that they have in fact considerably less, because there's no incentive for wisdom when you're spending someone else's money, with no accountability to that person.
That's why I object to the spending of my money to rebuild New Orleans. If the people in Louisiana want it, let them build it. If they decide it's not worth their own hard-earned money, that'll tell the rest of us just how much our forced "contribution" is actually valued.
Good God. We are supposed to pay for this thing because you don't want Mardi Gras kids going to your town? Geez.>>>>>>>>
I will go along with that as long as he will pay to relocate I-95 so that I can't hear the traffic noise in the winter when the leaves fall off the hardwoods. Tit for Tat.
One of the Big Stupid Government parties. They trade back and forth to keep up appearances.
Why don't they just do a category 5 levee system??>>>>>>>>>
Probably because it would cost more than our present system of numbers can account for.
What politicians always do with the money they get from Washington down there.
Throw a party!
If you think Mobile has it good, come down I-10 a little further to Houston. The Houston area has hundreds of thousands of grateful, happy and loveable "Evacuees". They are extremely hard working and are not causing any large increases in the crime rate. They are not having "gang fights" in our schools and make very fine scholars.
If you would like to share in this bounty, please call Mayor Bill White of Houston, Texas and I'm sure he will fill up the Sunset Limited passenger Train with some of these delightful people and ship them your way so that the fine Citizens of Mobile can enjoy even more of the Big Easy charms.
Maybe the Feds will also use our taxes to pay people to live there?
And the "crime rate" question is the critical one.
Most of the people from the high crime areas in New Orleans aren't the ones that are here. They settled into Houston, Baton Rouge and places like Arkansas and Memphis, and from what I understand, there have been some problems in Houston. Those are not the evacuees we want. If we are to get any, we want people from Lakeview, people from the more well kept parts of Uptown that were flooded, people from those new subdivisions along Bullard Road, and people from the Irish Bayou. In other words, the people we want did not have their kids in the New Orleans public school system.
(Prior to Katrina, New Orleans had the distincition of being America's only city with more people in private than public schools)
What I really worry about is the crime issue, namely, what if some of the evacuees who have caused the crime rate spike in Baton Rouge, what if they come this way.
We made great progress in the last 16 years on the crime front, and I'd hate to see this botch it.
And the question is, how many law abiding evacuees does an area take in before the ones who are criminals start entering en masse.
Let me guess, 2.9 Billion for government studies, and a mil to pay someone to shovel gravel in a hole. Republcrats and demonkins rejoice together! New BMW's for all, and for all a good night.
Where's the photo-op of Nagin sunning by his pool with a pina colada at his Texas getaway....while thousands of New Orleans citizens were stood in the muck and mire giving interviews to the media?
ROTFL!
This is all so disgusting!
How about LOANS to NO? We loan them the $; the feds oversee all rebuilding and contracts and audit the monies and the NO pays the feds back over time.
Let's start a rumor ;-)
This is just utterly disgusting. I don't want to see a contribution request from any Republican again ever.
You can bet the money to restore NO will be hawked. Everyone in the world is watching!
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