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Bush touts $4.2 billion plan for Louisiana homeowners
CNN Dot Com ^
| 3/8/2006
| CNN
Posted on 03/08/2006 9:32:49 AM PST by xrp
Bush touts $4.2 billion plan for Louisiana homeowners
President eyes recovery efforts on 10th trip to devastated Gulf
Wednesday, March 8, 2006; Posted: 12:29 p.m. EST (17:29 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- During a tour of the hurricane-damaged Gulf Coast, President Bush on Wednesday pressed Congress to pass a proposal that would offer up to $150,000 to each Louisiana homeowner who lost a residence to Katrina.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina
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I have no comment...yet -- pretty steamed.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:32:51 AM PST
by
xrp
To: xrp
Bush trouts giving away billions more tax dollars free to improve poll numbers.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:34:01 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(America is doomed to be socialist. Way too many people with palms pointed up!)
To: RetiredArmy
This is becoming liberal insanity...if it has not already.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:37:44 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: xrp
... and what was the median home price before Katrina?
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:38:15 AM PST
by
shekkian
To: RetiredArmy
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:39:54 AM PST
by
kenth
(Phil! Phil Connors! I thought that was you!)
To: xrp
Okay, so we help our fellow citizen. But they must not rebuild in a hurricane zone or flood zone, etc....there must be some stipulations so I don't have to rebuild their home in another 5 years.
However, I understand what the rest of you are saying.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:40:35 AM PST
by
yellowdoghunter
(I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats....by Dr. Thomas Sowell)
To: xrp
President Bush on Wednesday pressed Congress to pass a proposal that would offer up to $150,000 to each Louisiana homeowner who lost a residence to Katrina. GRRRRRRRRRRR.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:41:39 AM PST
by
American Quilter
(Set up, suckered in, pushed around...)
To: xrp
Say what? Need to see the fine print on this one.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:42:23 AM PST
by
gumboyaya
To: xrp
Pander pander and pander some more, and still the dreadful poll numbers; which are well deserved.
He's giving away $150,000 each for wrecked houses worth as little as $15,000 pre katrina.
Disaster piled on a natural disaster.
To: xrp
Good thing we didn't elect Gore. He would have given away the taxpayer's money to the democrat constituency and put judges on the Supreme Court who would vote against the death penalty.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:43:59 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: xrp
Hey, I lost a home there --sign me up. OK, maybe it was a dozen homes---Can you still sign me up? :)
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:44:00 AM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: xrp
If this is a buyout, it make sense and will be cheaper in the longrun. Turn the area into a wildlife preserve instead of spending trillions to rebuild it.
To: xrp
Sometimes, I think some of you are just a bunch of dopes.
Do you understand anything at all about economics? ANYTHING?
First, note the key word: HOMEOWNERS.
This is NOT a giveaway program for those poverty-ridden punks you saw looting on TV last year. Those people were NOT home owners.
Providing rebuilding funds for land-owners whose property does not contain a livable home, will be a huge shot in the arm for the local economy, and pay for itself many times over in jobs, capital and investment in the region.
Why not educate yourself JUST A LITTLE before going off on the President in this case, or are your knees just stuck in permanent jerk-mode?
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:47:37 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: freeangel
Gucci better put on a second shift.
To: shekkian
... and what was the median home price before Katrina?FEMA has 10K mobile homes stashed away in Arkansas.
You can't blame Dubya for wanting to make a profit when he sells them to Louisiana.
It's the "free market" housing bubble, stupid!
We're all gonna get RICH on this deal!!!
It's the Chinese who're gonna get screwed, THEY lent us the money to do it with!!!
To: xrp
Someone tell me - why even bother to get insurance anymore?
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:50:59 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: xrp
"President Bush on Wednesday pressed Congress to pass a proposal that would offer up to $150,000 to each Louisiana homeowner who lost a residence to Katrina."
That's Crazy Talk. What the hell is wrong with this guy? There are going to be hurricanes every year. What happens next year and the next if we set this president?
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:51:41 AM PST
by
babygene
(Viable after 87 trimesters)
To: brainstem223
He's giving away $150,000 each for wrecked houses worth as little as $15,000 pre katrina. Article says up to $150,000 each for wrecked houses. Are you a reporter for the NYT?
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:51:59 AM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
To: xrp
Spending other people's money is so much easier than being a leader.
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posted on
03/08/2006 9:53:06 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: Mike Darancette
With all the blithering incompetency of the federal government, you know dam well thats just whats going to happen.
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