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I Want To be A Grief Counselor!"
Posted on 09/19/2005 6:14:04 AM PDT by grundle
To put that $200 billion in perspective, we could give every one of the 500,000 families displaced by Katrina a check for $400,000, and they could each build a beach front home virtually anywhere in America.
Federal spending, not counting the war in Iraq, was growing by 7% this year, which came atop the 30% hike over Mr. Bush's first term.
Mike Pence of Indiana suggested a one-year delay on the multitrillion dollar new prescription drug benefit for senior citizens. For 220 years, seniors have managed without this give-away; one more year of waiting would hardly be an act of cruelty. It would save $40 billion, but there were no takers.
the Louis Vuitton store reported selling two monographed luxury handbags for $800 each, both paid for by women with FEMA's $2,000 emergency disaster relief debit cards.
Iowa, Michigan and Utah, for example, states nowhere near the Hurricane, are lining up for disaster relief funds.
Before the New Deal taught us that the federal government is the solution to every malady, most congresses and presidents would have concluded that the federal government's role was minimal. One of our greatest presidents, Democrat Grover Cleveland, vetoed an appropriation for drought victims because there was no constitutional authority to spend for such purposes. Today he would be ridiculed by Ted Kennedy as "incompassionate."
Chicago was burned to the ground in 1871; San Francisco was leveled by an earthquake in 1906; and in 1900 Galveston, Texas, was razed by a hurricane even more ferocious than Katrina. In each instance, these proud cities were rebuilt rapidly and to even greater glory--with hardly any federal money.
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bttt
Give till it hurts.
Response: $10.00 to those that need the money the balance to politicians and their 'friends!'
A large percentage will go to rebuilding infrastructures, I hope.
Let them eat caviar!
Give each family $400,000 and tell them to find a place to live.
Wha?
Of course that that would not replace the generations worth of infastructure like roads, bridges, etc that have been destroyed just goes right over the Cast Iron Conservatives. The money doesn't JUST go to the families, it also pay for repairs on decades worth of infastructure spending that has been destoryed.
This is an absolutely false premise and I'm astounded to see it in the Journal. I expected better of them.
That $200 billion includes infrastructure -- roads, bridges, etc.
Shallow analysis. They would also have to include the financial and strategic penalty for shutting down the 5th largest port in the world. However, the larger point is valid and we will be paying out the wazoo for this disaster.
Lets hope some momentum is given to discussion of NOT rebuilding the armpit that is NO, 15 feet below sea level...why should we bankrupt our country in such a dubious venture?
Businesses and infrastructure and more than 500k people as well. But it is still too much money.
Our local High School in the midwest has numerous new students from NO. Already, the school is concerned about their performance. Under "No Child Left Behind", we stand to lose federal money if our school's performance slips.
Yes, you are correct. We have to rebuild infrastructure that we spent decades building. The fact that this is a massive drain on Fed tax income as well the continuing costs of taking care of the evacuees just flyes right over the heads of these people.
Bookmarking to write letters to my congresscritters.
Neither I nor the author said that all the money was going to the families. We said that the money was that amount per family.
Thought MS and AL were included as well.
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