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Howlin, are you blind or have you noticed the abject hatred, insults, ignorance and abuse being shoved down our throats here in Louisiana? We don't deserve this. Lots of your fellow freepers need our help and understanding. No one is looking for a hand-out. This proposal is not a hand-out, but a loan. It will not be administered by those 'corrupt" politicians everyone seems to think we're over run with. Almost all of the loans will go to homeowners and property owners who are currently in a state of flux. No one is getting anything from their insurance policies right now, at least very few are getting settlments that are acceptable. The insurance companies know these folks can't take forever to restart their lives and they are taking advantage of them big-time with low ball offers.

This bill, if put into action would help these normal (just like you and me) folks buy time for themselves and free them from what they are dealing with. You won't be paying the bill for this, the ones who redevelop the property will. What's wrong with this?

BTW, on the subject of self-help, what's wrong with Louisiana financing it's own recovery through taxation on oil and gas use of our coastline? Do you want oil and gas rigs off the coast of North Carolina?

Howlin, are you blind or have you noticed the abject hatred, insults, ignorance and abuse being shoved down our throats here in Louisiana?

Perhaps you should ask yourself why that is?

Could it be because of all the hatred, insults, ignorance and abuse that was heaped on the government AND THIS COUNTRY from the tv screens in our living rooms?

Could it be because nothing seems like enough?

Could it be because a lot of us live in hurricane states and for years have known just what the odds are and just what needs to be done to PREPARE.

Did you not know you lived below sea level?

Doesn't it even occur to you that Mississippi endured the same storm you did and yet we don't see all the insults, hatred, etc., coming from them?

Do you not realize it takes TIME to come back from something like this?

And don't even try the "nobody is looking for a handout" on us; we're not that dumb; everybody that lived in that delta area should have had flood insurance; it's not OUR fault they didn't. Lots of your fellow freepers need our help and understanding. No one is looking for a hand-out.

And again I ask (since you all have managed to ignore every single question asked to you about it) why should WE pay your home mortgages?

No one is getting anything from their insurance policies right now, at least very few are getting settlments that are acceptable.

Acceptable to who? I'd bet they are getting what they PAID FOR, and evidently that's not enough.

Oh, nothing, except that you used it as a threat when you didn't get the money you demanded. The other 49 states can play that way, too.

In fact, now that you brought it up, I'd say that if you do go that way, the federal government shouldn't give you one more dime.

Two more things from your post to me:

Lots of your fellow freepers need our help and understanding.

I resent the fact that you made that statement here on this forum.

I, along with many others, stayed on this forum 24/7 offering help and advice, not to mention anything we could do for the FREEPERS here that were in the paht of this storm.

We've opened our homes and our wallets to make donations as we could.

And as for this:

Do you want oil and gas rigs off the coast of North Carolina?

If it keeps a$$hole states like Louisiana from blackmailing us with TARIFFS, I'll sink the first one myself.

I'm sick to DEATH of being blackmailed financially and emotionally by the new crack in this country, 'victimhood."

And it's particularly distateful coming from someone who evidently is on this forum because he/she/it considers himself a conservative.