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New Orleans got $388 million in federal pandemic aid. Was that money well spent?
Louisiana Illuminator ^ | May 3, 2025 | Katie Jane Fernelius

Posted on 05/03/2025 11:23:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 05/03/2025 11:23:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I’m going to go way out on limb here and say no ...


2 posted on 05/03/2025 11:29:45 AM PDT by x
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P.J. O’Rourke referred to New Orleans as a ‘high crime drainage ditch’, and taking into account stories I’ve heard over the years, he wasn’t too far off the mark.


3 posted on 05/03/2025 11:31:01 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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4 posted on 05/03/2025 11:32:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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5 posted on 05/03/2025 11:32:50 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (=)
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“Was that money well spent?”

This is just one city, New Orleans, which is easy to pick on. That question is obviously valid for the rest of the cities as well.


6 posted on 05/03/2025 11:36:16 AM PDT by plain talk
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What may have happened to the money.

Richard Pryor’s new ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7JBXGkBoFc


7 posted on 05/03/2025 11:36:53 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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I’d hold any judgment until I saw & examined the legal & illegal bank accounts of all the Louisiana politicians and their friends...

$388,000,000 buys lots of booze, hoes, fancy cars, drugs, cruises, and palatial homes...


8 posted on 05/03/2025 11:38:56 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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How much Covid money did your state, county, or city take?

Did they use it wisely?

What do they have to show for all that cash?


9 posted on 05/03/2025 11:45:58 AM PDT by Round Earther
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Hookers and ointments


10 posted on 05/03/2025 11:48:39 AM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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LOL

It’s New Orleans.


11 posted on 05/03/2025 11:55:25 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us )
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Mayor-Latoya-Cantrell

What do her real estate holdings look like, I wonder?

12 posted on 05/03/2025 11:56:26 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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Of course not.


13 posted on 05/03/2025 12:07:41 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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My state’s whining about the end of ARPA money as well.


14 posted on 05/03/2025 12:08:52 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Well-spent?
In New Orleans?


15 posted on 05/03/2025 12:23:14 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Lady LaToya kept the city locked down longer than the rest of Louisiana. She even set up a snitch line to report neighbors for having more than the household on property.

The delayed reopening caused many businesses to close for good. Of course her big donors did okay.

EC


16 posted on 05/03/2025 12:30:13 PM PDT by Ex-Con777
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Lady LaToya kept the city locked down longer than the rest of Louisiana.
She even set up a snitch line to report neighbors for having more than the household on property.

The delayed reopening caused many businesses to
close for good. Of course her big donors did okay.


Of course......


17 posted on 05/03/2025 12:33:02 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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“I’m going to go way out on limb here and say no ...”

LOL. It’s New Orleans. It’s millions of dollars. The answer can’t possibly be yes unless one thinks that sending out a bunch of money to cronies to pay themselves big salaries is a good use of money.

Don’t even have to read the article.


18 posted on 05/03/2025 12:34:06 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: nickcarraway

Nowhere in the article did they mention audits of the bank accounts of any politicians or NGOs.


19 posted on 05/03/2025 1:03:36 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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"What do they have to show for all that cash?"

Here, behind enemy lines in MD, a Mercedes, BMW, Cadillac, or Lexus in front of almost every townhouse...

20 posted on 05/03/2025 1:30:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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