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Even as they assessing damages from Hurricane Rita, state officials said Sunday they are asking the federal government for nearly $32 billion to repair and improve highways and bridges wrecked by Hurricane Katrina. The two storms knocked out electricity for more than million homes and businesses. Nearly 269,000 electric customers in south Louisiana were without power Sunday night. Power was restored to about 144,000 customers on Sunday, trimming the list of those without it to 268,671. Bill Doran, operations chief for the state Office of Emergency Preparedness, told reporters parish officials Sunday started the arduous process of putting a price...

Let's face i, governments and unions are agents of THEFT and to a large degree, they are the bagmen of the middle class. They distort the markets for labor and trade so that some people are able to TAKE more resources out of the pockets of the owning class than they are entitled to. It makes me sick. Most of the people in the “middle class” in America have no business having what they have. If the just, God-given market forces were left alone, those thieves would be living in the shacks their productivity entitles them to and the wealthy...