Katrina Victims Should Grow Up

[Bill Call]

The spending on New Orleans and the attitude of the residents tells us a great deal about the culture of dependency and the incompetance of government.

If the federal government spent in Lakewood what it has spent in New Orleans our City would have been on the receiving end of $8 BILLION over the last two years.

This article says it all:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... lar_b.html

[Stephen Eisel]

You build a city where water should be and the water usually wins once in a while.. You develop an evacuation plan and do not implement it during a major time of crisis then cry that it is everyone elses fault. You evacuate people to a dome with no food, water, beds, medical and etc and then blame everyone else but yourself (You had 48 hours notice that the storm was going to hit your city). The poor are not evacuated. Several Amtrack trains leave New Orleans completely empty. The picture of the hundreds of school busses just sitting in water says enough. You forget that we have the 10th amendment. You refuse to let trucks carrying supplies to enter your state after a major castrophe. I blame the mayor first then the Gov then the prez on this one... It is sad that people died because of the incompetence of several elected officials. I learned one thing from Katrina. In times of crisis, you cannot depend upon your local, state, or Federal gov for immediate help.

[Stephen Eisel]

The bill for Katrrina (clicky here)

Citing administration figures, the lawmaker said that $114 billion has been spent on the effort to rebuild a large stretch of the Gulf Coast after the storm hit New Orleans in August 2005 and claimed more than 1,600 lives.

You'd would think that $114 billion would be enough money to rebuild NO... but obviously more data is needed to make a real judgment if the amount spent has been too much...