The locals weren't prepared and did a crappy job of anything imediately after the storm when the enormity of the devastation was just sinking in. We've had five months now for the Feds to get their act together on this and it still isn't taking place. Surely, you can't blame the locals for this. This attitude says every state for themselves. Is that what you want for this nation?
Yes, I can. Your pols came to the American taxpayer asking for $250 billion dollars. That one act curdled all the goodwill taxpayers in other states had.
Now, Louisiana wants federal taxpayers to pay for destroyed properties. So far, so good. But then all those properties will be re-bundled for re-development. And I'm sure the corrupt Louisiana pols will figure out how to get their share from that.
And that is the problem all this keeps returning to - you are asking us to send tens of billions of dollars to the same hacks who helped create this mess in the first place.
And what is the point of re-developing land that is now so prone to getting wiped off the map by a hurricane? We're supposed to have at least two more decades of this up-cycle.
Yep. Thats not to say Americans as individuals shouldn't help out on a voluntary basis, charities etc., but its not the job of the federal government to force the rest of the nation get Lousiiana's act together.