Too much aid?

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Here is something interesting from reason.com about Federal Aid to NO. I figure it fits with our talks about welfare, bloated government, etc, etc:

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George W. Bush has done quite a bit more than promise a $200 billion spending spree on the Gulf Coast. With that massive pledge of federal aid, Bush has performed a remarkable bit of political jujitsu on himself and most of the Republican Party.

Now, rather than local Democratic politicians being responsible for the lack of much meaningful, job-creating private sector activity in the region, the Republicans in control of the federal government have taken on that load. Rather than an altogether rational and long overdue decampment of the population out of dead-end situations in New Orleans and elsewhere to places of more opportunity like Houston, the feds are now committed, along with the local political bosses who need bodies to represent, to repopulating areas and recreating welfare state dependency.

Remarkably, there have already been explicit calls for something like the Depression-era Works Progress Administration system of make-work "jobs" funded by federal largess, the logical outcome of pledging untold billions to the rebuilding effort without any clear guide to the goals beyond "rebuilding." A few Republicans are grumbling about this turn of events, but they are, as yet, in the distinct minority in Washington.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

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You're just mad because you didn't get your money invested in plywood, sheetrock, mobsters and cinderblock suppliers in time.

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You're just mad because you didn't get your money invested in plywood, sheetrock, mobsters and cinderblock suppliers in time.

Dammit. You are on to me. Sumbitch.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

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You're just mad because you didn't get your money invested in plywood, sheetrock, mobsters and cinderblock suppliers in time.

Dammit. You are on to me. Sumbitch.

You can still get in on the mobster bit - just donate to Nagin's re-election campaign!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
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You can still get in on the mobster bit - just donate to Nagin's re-election campaign!

i can see it now a hilary-nagin or a jesse jackson-nagin ticket.

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You can still get in on the mobster bit - just donate to Nagin's re-election campaign!

i can see it now a hilary-nagin or a jesse jackson-nagin ticket.

I'd vote for Kerry over either of those two.... hell, I'd go to Chicago and vote 3 or 4 times!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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You can still get in on the mobster bit - just donate to Nagin's re-election campaign!

i can see it now a hilary-nagin or a jesse jackson-nagin ticket.

I'd vote for Kerry over either of those two.... hell, I'd go to Chicago and vote 3 or 4 times!

Only the dead get to do that.

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You can still get in on the mobster bit - just donate to Nagin's re-election campaign!

i can see it now a hilary-nagin or a jesse jackson-nagin ticket.

I'd vote for Kerry over either of those two.... hell, I'd go to Chicago and vote 3 or 4 times!

Only the dead get to do that.

Well, why do *THEY* get to have all the fun?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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In the same vein:

It is hard to believe that Louisiana actually expects to get some $250 billion in federal aid, including a whopping $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers to make plots of land dry that by rights should be under water.

For perspective, the entire Corps budget for 2005 is just $4 billion. Louisiana lawmakers propose nothing less than a total terraforming of the state with the other 49 states footing the bill. If followed through to its logical conclusion, this lavish rebuilding effort would make Katrina the greatest thing to ever happen to the state of Louisiana.

This plan deserves a quick and merciful death, but given trends in spending from both the White House and Republicans in Congress that may be far too much to ask for.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.

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In the same vein:

It is hard to believe that Louisiana actually expects to get some $250 billion in federal aid, including a whopping $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers to make plots of land dry that by rights should be under water.

For perspective, the entire Corps budget for 2005 is just $4 billion. Louisiana lawmakers propose nothing less than a total terraforming of the state with the other 49 states footing the bill. If followed through to its logical conclusion, this lavish rebuilding effort would make Katrina the greatest thing to ever happen to the state of Louisiana.

This plan deserves a quick and merciful death, but given trends in spending from both the White House and Republicans in Congress that may be far too much to ask for.

There has been a net transfer of $$$ from northern "Blue" states to southern "Red" states for years.

Did you see that FEMA took out a 6 month contact with Carnival Cruise Lines to provide housing for the displaced, when Greece had offered to provide ships FREE. Money to the cronies again, or just incompetence?

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In the same vein:

It is hard to believe that Louisiana actually expects to get some $250 billion in federal aid, including a whopping $40 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers to make plots of land dry that by rights should be under water.

For perspective, the entire Corps budget for 2005 is just $4 billion. Louisiana lawmakers propose nothing less than a total terraforming of the state with the other 49 states footing the bill. If followed through to its logical conclusion, this lavish rebuilding effort would make Katrina the greatest thing to ever happen to the state of Louisiana.

This plan deserves a quick and merciful death, but given trends in spending from both the White House and Republicans in Congress that may be far too much to ask for.

There has been a net transfer of $$$ from northern "Blue" states to southern "Red" states for years.

Did you see that FEMA took out a 6 month contact with Carnival Cruise Lines to provide housing for the displaced, when Greece had offered to provide ships FREE. Money to the cronies again, or just incompetence?

Incompetence.

Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing.