Can the government of this country continue to humiliate the poor

[frankly_fedup2]

that want to move back to what is left of their homes in Louisiana? You bet they can and they will. Louisiana received 5 times less the funding for repairing then Mississippi. Sounds like a little cronyism playing a part in this tragedy yet again.

The government is going to help those that have nothing left in New Orleans a big, BIG favor. You believe that? I didn't think so. See below.

Representative Richard H. Baker, a conservative Republican from Louisiana, has proposed rebuilding homes in New Orleans through an $80 billion federal buyout.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/ninth.ward/index.html

(snip)Those 120 homes are all in the 9th Ward, which has a predominantly black population.

Meffert told CNN on Tuesday there is a delicate balancing act between public safety and property owners' rights.

Houses that have "come off the slab and gone into a right of way or into a street" are "really all we're talking about with these 120," he said.

"We have to balance that property owner's notification of -- again, they know it's already demolished -- but to balance that with the fact that this thing is in the street or it's about to hurt somebody," he said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/national/nationalspecial/05buyout.html?hp&ex=1136523600&en=1aba7a97c5c9afe3&ei=5094&partner=homepage

(snip) The passage of the bill has become increasingly important to Louisiana because the state lost out to the greater political power of Mississippi last month when Congress passed a $29 billion aid package for the Gulf states region. The package gave Mississippi about five times as much per household in housing aid as Louisiana received - a testimony to the clout of Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Senator Thad Cochran, chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

Louisiana officials say they were forced to go along with the appropriation, because they may not have received any aid package at all otherwise. But now they are focused even more intently on
Mr. Baker's buyout bill; many economists here say there may be no alternative to buyouts for homeowners who cannot make mortgage payments on ruined properties. (end snip)

God forbid they help those without flood insurance to catch up on their back mortgage or rent with some of the charity money that poured in. By the way, what has that been spent on?? Anyone???

Now I'm starting to wonder if that Levy was messed with. After all, Katrina turned out to be a category III hurricane after all. That levy should have held.

[Maddy McCall]

1. I really hope merh, a Mississippian, doesn't see this thread.

She's still paying a house note on her slab. She has yet to receive a penny in assistance toward rebuilding her home. Her insurance refused to cover her home, because they say her home was flood-damaged, and she didn't have flood insurance--even though her house was ripped apart by the wind before the tidal surge hit.

I'm a Mississippian, too. My house had four trees on it. I still have substantial damage to my roof. I've received not a penny of FEMA money to help with the clean-up of my property or the repair of my home.

But I'm sure merh and I will let you know when we get that windfall you describe in your post. :eyes:

(Anyway, shouldn't your post be in GD instead of LBN?)