There are roughly 500,000 people that were displaced throughout Louisiana, Bush is requesting a total of about 200 Billion to rebuild the state. That comes out to how much a person here?
If my math is right, that is about $400,000 per person... So tell me, think this is justified?
$400,000 per person to rebuild Louisiana
$400,000 per person to rebuild Louisiana
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$400,000 per person to rebuild Louisiana
BTS wrote: There are roughly 500,000 people that were displaced throughout Louisiana, Bush is requesting a total of about 200 Billion to rebuild the state. That comes out to how much a person here?
If my math is right, that is about $400,000 per person... So tell me, think this is justified?
I really don't go around looking for ways to defend President Bush. I just keep seeing these things being said that have no basis in truth. The 200 billion was requested by the State of Louisiana as I understand it. No one has authorized the expenditure of that much money. My understanding is that the federal offer was less than half of that. It is still a huge amount of money and I think they should evaluate the need a lot more before any amount it settled on.
If my math is right, that is about $400,000 per person... So tell me, think this is justified?
I really don't go around looking for ways to defend President Bush. I just keep seeing these things being said that have no basis in truth. The 200 billion was requested by the State of Louisiana as I understand it. No one has authorized the expenditure of that much money. My understanding is that the federal offer was less than half of that. It is still a huge amount of money and I think they should evaluate the need a lot more before any amount it settled on.
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$400,000 per person to rebuild Louisiana
Giving a person a huge amount of money is not justified but these people have lost their homes and possessions and own little more than their lives and a few items of clothing.
What they need are new homes, new furniture and some clothes. They just want to get their lives back to a state of normality. This money would not be going into their pockets but to pay for them to have their lives back. The money cannot replace lost loved ones or lost family heirlooms such as photographs - always so precious.
It would also pay for schools and shops to be rebuilt and even roads and drainage systems. It is also needed to repair and improve the strength of the levees so future storms will find it harder to break through and hopefully impossible.
These people are, in general, very poor - and poor people get to live in cheaper housing built on flood plains or in less savoury areas. In reality they should build bigger dams and deeper drainage systems and move the local population several miles inland away from the coastal hurricane areas. Unfortunately there is probably no safer land available and besides which, people will want to re-establish their communities as they were (or as close to it as possible) they wont want to move house and neighbourhood.
Perhaps what they should really consider is the redesign of the houses. Perhaps if they were built on stilts, or if every ground floor was a garage and housing began on the first floor or perhaps if tower blocks were built with deep foundations and maybe some kind of retrofitting to allow them to sway in high winds without falling. All of this will cost money, but the more money spent now on improvements and increased protection - the less money needed in future to rebuild the area again after the next 1-in-500-year-storm.
What they need are new homes, new furniture and some clothes. They just want to get their lives back to a state of normality. This money would not be going into their pockets but to pay for them to have their lives back. The money cannot replace lost loved ones or lost family heirlooms such as photographs - always so precious.
It would also pay for schools and shops to be rebuilt and even roads and drainage systems. It is also needed to repair and improve the strength of the levees so future storms will find it harder to break through and hopefully impossible.
These people are, in general, very poor - and poor people get to live in cheaper housing built on flood plains or in less savoury areas. In reality they should build bigger dams and deeper drainage systems and move the local population several miles inland away from the coastal hurricane areas. Unfortunately there is probably no safer land available and besides which, people will want to re-establish their communities as they were (or as close to it as possible) they wont want to move house and neighbourhood.
Perhaps what they should really consider is the redesign of the houses. Perhaps if they were built on stilts, or if every ground floor was a garage and housing began on the first floor or perhaps if tower blocks were built with deep foundations and maybe some kind of retrofitting to allow them to sway in high winds without falling. All of this will cost money, but the more money spent now on improvements and increased protection - the less money needed in future to rebuild the area again after the next 1-in-500-year-storm.
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$400,000 per person to rebuild Louisiana
The federal gov't should rebuild/repair federal building and roads. Since they committed to building/repairing the levees, I guess I have to concede that they have to rebuild and repair them, too. That alone is billions, but that is where congress needs to stop spending my money.
The great and sovreign State of Louisiana is responsible for the state-owned buildings and roads. If they want to help the city of New Orleans, that's up to Louisiana voters. No government is responsible for replacing homes, unless a class-action lawsuit proves that the gov't destroyed them. Oh yeh, the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the levees. I guess that's that then.
I guess it's too naive to think the fed. gov't will stop taking responsibility for local structures now, huh?
The great and sovreign State of Louisiana is responsible for the state-owned buildings and roads. If they want to help the city of New Orleans, that's up to Louisiana voters. No government is responsible for replacing homes, unless a class-action lawsuit proves that the gov't destroyed them. Oh yeh, the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the levees. I guess that's that then.
I guess it's too naive to think the fed. gov't will stop taking responsibility for local structures now, huh?