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Please stop trying to give the Louisiana Congressional delegation a
pass. They have full control on where and what money is spent in the state. Apparently, they know how to get money for bike paths, but not for levees. "James Robinson" wrote in message . 97.142... "sfb" wrote: Most, if not all the fault, with failing to upgrade Levees lies with the Louisiana Congressional Delegation. There a report in today's WSJ that they were able to get a $400,000 for the Mississippi River Trail and Bikepath and $3,200,000 for bike and pedestrian crossings of the Washington-Palmetto Canal in this year's highway bill. Obviously, the locals have a problem setting priorities and would resent any attempt by the Bush administration to force them to rethink where Federal monies are best spent. They don't get a choice about where to spend that money; It has to be spent where the bill designates. It's also a far cry from the estimated $15 billion required for mitigation according to the Army Corps of Engineers proposals. |
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"Doof" wrote: These are just the major highlights. If you REALLY want to know the facts, rather than Jessie Jackson's spin and the left/MSM slurping it up, read "The Economics and Politics of Race" by Thomas Sowell. I have not read much of Sowell, but always thought he was not descriminating enough. Most of all, I think he is a crypto-blame shifter: that is, at bottom he is no different from Jackson, blaming whites for the problems of blacks. The greatest blame, in my opinion, must fall on American black leaders of the last 40 years who have inculcated the ideas of entitlement, reparation and irresponsibility into black culture in the United States. If he has hit this point hard enough, I have missed it. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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Lavish tastes of card-carrying lowlifes
Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta. "We've seen three of the cards," said a senior employee of the Louis Vuitton store at the Lenox Square Mall in affluent Buckhead, who asked not to be named. "Two I'm certain have purchased; one actually asked if she could use it in the store. This has been since Saturday." The distinctive white cards were distributed by the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and carry a value of up to $2,000. "It doesn't say anything on the card other than alcohol, tobacco and firearms cannot be purchased with it," the store employee told me. "There's nothing legally that prevents us from taking it, unfortunately. Other than morally, it's wrong." The source told me that the two women who had made purchases with the card each bought a signature monogrammed Louis Vuitton handbag in the $800 range. "They didn't look destitute by any stretch. You would never have said, 'They must be one of the evacuees.' ... The one that I dealt with yesterday was 20. She'll be 21 next month." The source described the reaction of other store-keepers in the mall - which includes luxury brands Ferragamo, Burberry, Judith Leiber and Neiman Marcus - as "outrage." "It doesn't say anywhere on there, but it would have to be a good amount to be shopping in here," the source said with a dark chuckle. source: http://nydailynews.com/front/story/345030p-294601c.html Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone |
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pictures of Katrina damages
http://www.plaqueminesparish.com/Eme...orePhotos.html Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone |
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Profiteering ghouls have been using debit cards distributed in the wake
of Hurricane Katrina - intended to buy essentials for evacuated families - in luxury-goods stores as far away as Atlanta. This is news? Anyone with half a brain knew that there would be rampant, massive fraud associated with the government handing out $2K debit cards to Katrina victims. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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The New Louisiana Purchase
Wouldn't it be more cost effective and cost the taxpayers less money for the Federal Government to just pay all the property owners 10% over appraised value for all the real estate in New Orleans and turn the area into a big coastal National Park? |
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New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the
world so they just can't walk away. "john smith" wrote in message ... The New Louisiana Purchase Wouldn't it be more cost effective and cost the taxpayers less money for the Federal Government to just pay all the property owners 10% over appraised value for all the real estate in New Orleans and turn the area into a big coastal National Park? |
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In article SZWUe.1946$b37.1338@trnddc04, sfb wrote:
New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the world so they just can't walk away. Not insignificant but hardly crucial; New Orleans ranks #14 in the top 20 U.S. Ports: (http://www.bts.gov/publications/us_i.../table_13.html) Still, a grain terminal could be maintained without risking a million people. |
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Nice try baby, but your chart is ranked by container shipping. Grain are
bulk cargos. Levees are needed to maintain water depth for navigation. "Doug Carter" wrote in message ire.net... In article SZWUe.1946$b37.1338@trnddc04, sfb wrote: New Orleans is a major port exporting grain from the Midwest to the world so they just can't walk away. Not insignificant but hardly crucial; New Orleans ranks #14 in the top 20 U.S. Ports: (http://www.bts.gov/publications/us_i.../table_13.html) Still, a grain terminal could be maintained without risking a million people. |
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In article iuYUe.649$YI6.353@trnddc05, sfb wrote:
Nice try baby, but your chart is ranked by container shipping. Grain are bulk cargos. Levees are needed to maintain water depth for navigation. Ahhh, try reading the posts. New Orleans is is _not_ an insignificant port overall and _yes_ it is important to grain exports with some nine of the twelve central gulf coast elevators with deep draft channels. This could be why I suggested rebuilding the grain terminals. What fraction, do you suppose, of the now displaced or dead New Orleans population was devoted to grain shipment? |
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