From the article:
"Congress is considering allowing all homeowners affected by Katrina to apply for the $4.2 billion in proposed housing aide, according to The Associated Press. Bush wants to limit access to those funds to Louisianans, the AP reported."
Although LA apparently had the greatest amount of damage, Mississippi was pretty well dessimated as well. How can he justify this? And while we are at it, what about the folks in Florida who got their backsides handed to them with four hurricanes in 1994, one in 1995. They got some FEMA assistance but not to that extent and, oh by the way, while we are counting the days since Katrina, many homes in Port Charlotte area (Hurricane Charlie) still have blue tarps on roofs. If true, this is demented.
Sorry to inform you that you are anything BUT correct. According to FEMA's own website, those four storms combined destroyed 16,000 structures. Louisiana all by itself had 18,800 businesses destroyed. Overall, Katrina and Rita destroyed almost 300,000 structures along the gulf coastal areas from western Florida to Texas. Many folks don't realize that the "forgotten" hurricane Rita which hit soutwestern Louisiana would have been the worst storm to have hit the state were it not for Katrina.
FEMA statistics on it's own website show that Florida received over 5.7 billion dollars in federal assistance after their hurricanes. This averaged out to over $350,000 per destroyed structure. So far, of the monies earmarked for hurricane relief in the gulf coastal areas destroyed by Katrina and Rita, over 25 billion of it is either "overhead by FEMA or flood insurance payments. Neither of these categories is classified as "aid". The leftover 80 billion divided by 300,000 structures averages about $267,000 per destroyed structure. Looks like Florida did better than Louisiana in getting Federal money for their damages. BTW, the Louisiana plan to pay up to $150,000 per home is the exact amount Haley Barbour is giving to his residents whose homes were destroyed.