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.
"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."
The "mess" you refer to was created by and large by the Corp of Engineers who built shoddy levy protection and turned around and told the good citizens "it's okay to build here, you are protected." The entire Metro area was high and dry shortly after Katrina had passed......then the water burst through.