"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.
But your governor did ask for federal assistance. It happened to be denied because the feds thought the state could handle that amount of damage on their own. If that's all Louisiana had we could handle it on our own too.
Exactly. Every year I watch as billions of federal dollars are poured into coastal areas to rebuild houses destroyed by hurricanes, rebuilt by owners that KNOW that the next hurricane will result in the same destruction. Yet those of us in the mid-west are on our own when a tornado randomly wipes your home off the map......I'm sorry for Louisiana, but I have read for years about the consequences of a major hurricane on New Orleans....my pity level is low.