If several billions haven't yet corrected the problems, then something is seriously wrong with the way the money is being used.
As as long as I'm being mean here---I'd love to see all the refugees lounging around at government expense return to Louisiana and be made to help rebuild over there.
As everyone else in areas of the country that are hit by acts of nature such as tornadoes. I haven't seen any government "plans" for any of the people who lose homes and lives all over the country and don't have 24/7 coverage of the "poor" who were told, at least, 3 days in advance to GET OUT and take, at least, a weeks worth of medicine, clothes, water, food, etc. and DID NOTHING.
"Personally, I'm wondering how much more the taxpayers are supposed to pick up to pay for Louisiana. As for me, I'm sick and tired of it. It's time for these people to pull up their bootstraps, and figure out how to take care of their own problems."
Louisiana is beginning to figure it out! There is a new plan being discussed - a plan to levy a tax (4%) against major Oil and Gas producers in Louisiana, something akin to a land use tax on the thousands of miles of pipeline getting the gas and oil out of Lousiana to other parts of the country. These majors would have no choice other than to pay it. They would then turn around and pass that tax on to consumers at pumps across America. It would generate BILLIONS for the State of Louisiana. Americans will helf fund the Lousiana recovery every time they fuel their vehicles whether they like it or not. Rest assured, Lousiana is getting dangerously close to getting "it" figured out. Some politicians in Lousiana aren't as stupid as some want to protray them. In a sense, because of their abundance of Natural Resources on land and off their coast, Louisiana has the Nation and Americans at their mercy and the State is just beginning to wake up to that fact. Time will tell how all this shakes out. Stay tuned!
"As for me, I'm sick and tired of it. It's time for these people to pull up their bootstraps, and figure out how to take care of their own problems."
Agreed. The Government didn't re-build Chicago after Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned it to the ground. Same with the Peshtigo Fire, here in Wisconsin.
The huge San Francisco and Alaskan Earthquakes? No massive influx of aid from the Government there, either. Who rebuilt Galveston, TX? The Government? Nope. The People.
And the F-4 Tornado that destoyed a section of my neighboring town last summer? Just a week before Katrina hit? We're not getting a dime for the 43 million in damage that tornado caused. Our state government is working on building a fund for these types of natural disasters, though I'm not really for that, either.
Hold up there,,, we dont want em back here either. At least relocated to other states, the criminal elements wont be able to blend in and hide from justice like they did in NO.
As far as rebuiliding goes all the Dims care about are precinct voting stations and busses to shuttle multi voters around NO. That's what is really bothering them! Without being able to keep the NO voting machines running they will not win hardly any more elections in this state.
I have to partially agree with Chocobrains Noggin, God was angry at NO, not for Iraq, but for the planned week long sodomy festival that was washed out!!!