Bush: No state plan, no more cash (La. Recovery)

[funkybutt]

Bush: No plan, no money

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_01_26.html#108110

Responding to complaints that his administration is short-changing Louisiana’s hurricane recovery, President Bush on Thursday said the federal government had already made a “significant commitment” and suggested more money is unlikely until the state produces a detailed recovery plan.

At other points during a White House news conference, Bush sounded a more accommodating tone, calling the passage of three hurricane-related spending bills and two tax-relief packages since September “a good start, a strong start” and indicating he would address the increasingly controversial pace of Gulf Coast recovery in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night.

Bush’s comments come two days after his administration announced its opposition to a popular local proposal to bail out the owners of an estimated 217,000 houses in Louisiana destroyed in hurricane-related flooding last year. The White House said Louisiana instead should use already-appropriated money to focus on the needs of 20,000 uninsured homeowners outside the flood plain, a number that prompted shrieks of protest from state and local officials who say it grossly underestimates the scale of the damage and would retard the recovery.


comment: they rejected ONE of our plans Wednesday, how many PLANS do they need!?

[AuntiBush]

1. Read about this earlier...

It's heartbreaking. The only thing he's blowing our country's money on is war, and the destruction of "over there," and "over here" - name it, he's destroying it and us.

[fooj]

2. Too bad Senator Landrieu didn't get the memo...

Peace.

[mike_c]

3. yeah, she's going to help Bush install Alito in the Supreme Court...

...while he buggers Louisiana and laughs.

[PVK]

4. Mary Landrieu needs to wake up.

Her go-along-get-along program ain't working for the people of her state.

[jus_the_facts]

5. she's had her head up his ass for years now....

....and I will NOT vote for her DINO ass ever again. :nopity:

[applegrove]

6. Isn't that the same thing they said to the Governor in those first few

days? Give us a list. Give us a list or we will not help.

Of course the Mayor needs a plan. Senators need a plan. And they may need help coming up with that plan. And the feds could help out in that regard by sending planners to NOLA - with no strings or cronies. You know. Good governance.

[ninkasi]

7. I believe that in order to show their patriotism

All of the millionaires and billionaires who would be on the receiving end of more Bush tax cuts should insist, instead, that the money be spent to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. After all, the extra money won't make one bit of difference to them,it won't give them a better lifestyle, because they are already super rich. This would be their chance, and Bush's', to prove that they LOVE this country, and want to help rebuild a large part of it.

Which, after all, is more typically American...using the money to help the down and out, the suffering, the homeless, or throwing the money at people who don't need it? What does this country stand for, the Americans who are the citizens, or a wealthy elite who have more than they will ever need, and could rebuild whole neighborhoods for what they spend on a daughter's wedding, or a birthday party?

Let's stop this rush to another gilded age, and begin one to restore the America that our Founding Fathers fought for, and that we were raised to love and believe in. I have nothing in common with the rich, and everything in common with my brothers and sisters who lost all in Katrina and Rita. My skin is white, theirs might be black, or white, or brown, but no matter; they are my brothers and sisters, and they are in pain, and need our help.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Let's take this a step further

I think all the people in LA, especially in the disaster area, should not pay Federal Taxes. Instead they should set up a special account to deposit that money into, that can only be used for projects and expenses in the State of LA.

[Straight Shooter]

12. The problem is, they DON'T love this country.

They love only what they get out of this country and how our government panders to them. These people would be the same jerks if they had the same kind of money in France, in Sweden, in Austria, in Mexico. Makes no difference.

I'm not saying all wealthy people are jerks, far from it. But I've seen this "entitlement attitude" more times than I care to count.

[Lasher]

8. Does he mean a "detailed recovery plan" like the one in Iraq?

Money also disappeared in truckloads and by helicopter. The CPA reportedly distributed funds to contractors in bags off the back of a truck. In one notorious incident in April 2004, $1.5 billion in cash that had just been delivered by three Blackhawk helicopters was handed over to a courier in Erbil, in the Kurdish region, never to be seen again. Afterwards, no one was able to recall the courier’s name or provide a good description of him.

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/cover.html

On edit: Want a detailed recovery plan? Build category 5 levees around New Orleans! Don't know how? Call somebody in Holland.

[AzDar]

11. Makes one's head hurt, doesn't it? n/t

[rodeodance]

9. in competence got hem into and is still hard at work.