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Vendaval -> "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/23/2007 5:42:16 PM)
"Gulf residents wonder, where is all the money?" "Only half of the $110 billion appropriated has been spent" By Lisa Myers, Christiana Arvetis & the NBC News Investigative Unit Updated: 4:53 p.m. PT Feb 6, 2007 "So far, only about half the $110 billion allotted by the federal government has actually been spent. Officials at all levels complain that bureaucratic red tape has choked off the recovery. "It's kind of like a glacier melting waiting for those moneys to come down to the local level," says Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans . The first chokepoint: The Stafford Act, a federal requirement designed to reduce corruption, that state or local governments must provide 10 percent of the money for rebuilding projects. In Bay St. Louis alone, 25 key federally funded projects — (totaling nearly $70 million) including new water and sewer systems — are stuck because the city doesn't have the matching funds. Favre explains, "We don't have the money. We have borrowed every bit of money we could possibly borrow to the point now that legally we can't borrow anymore because of our debt limit capacities. We don't really know what we're going to do." Louisiana officials complain that requirement is their biggest impediment." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16992558/

pahunkboy -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/23/2007 6:37:10 PM)
..red tape. mom moved to chicago. cant seem to order her birth certificate- she needs a driver license. in order to get the driver license- she needs her birth certificate. it gets sillier. i was asked to fax stuff to prove that someone else isnt me. it was all mixed up- i had nothing to gain- so i dropped it. the "system" is the most important thing on earth. i love when the system makes errrors in my favor. then todays workers are like duhhhhhhhhhh- i cant process u cos teh thing dont bleep. what do i care about the rotten system. remember my rant about shoddy merchandise. well- a broom did not last even a week- i took it to the store-visably placed it near register- went and got another- and left- never saying a word. why? it would have taken 20 minuttes to "process" it all. the frickenm stores dont mark teh ite,ms so we dotn know how much they cost- then they put a misleading tag near it- so it LOOKS like your thing is on sale- but it isnt. the system is right. the peon is a piece of shtt

Sinergy -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/23/2007 6:43:50 PM)
The red tape by the VA is strangling GIs who need medical help after getting wounded in Iraq. Wasn't it AnencephalyBoy who said he was following the Reagan idea of eliminating government bureacracy? Sinergy

pahunkboy -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/23/2007 6:46:56 PM)
-the va has long been a mess. --this is where the inaugaral celebrations on bushes 2nd term were distasteful. we are are war- and the threw mu.ti millin $ partty-----

popeye1250 -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/24/2007 12:42:40 AM)
Figures! They probably have thousands of beurocrats sitting in offices tied up in red tape.

mnottertail -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/24/2007 1:07:23 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sinergy The red tape by the VA is strangling GIs who need medical help after getting wounded in Iraq. Wasn't it AnencephalyBoy who said he was following the Reagan idea of eliminating government bureacracy? Sinergy Everybody remembers the movie Fargo---that is actually my closest VA Hospital----its expansion of use was funded by Jimmie Carter (a Veteran) ; and subsequently most of the VA funding was cut by Reagan----and has been going downhill since--- The fuckin Hospital bears that cowards name.

Pestilence -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/24/2007 1:33:27 AM)
I was born in New Orleans and lived south of it for the first 9 years of my life. My grandmother still lives there today, so this matter strikes pretty close to home for me. For starters, federal funds to keep the levies maintained had been reduced or cut completely for a long time. So they were in bad shape before Katrina. They're in worse shape now. The emergency response in that region would have also been faster except a large part of Louisiana's national guard personnel (40-60%) and nearly all (80-90%) of their equipment was deployed to Iraq. Another major problem Louisiana will face in the future is that Katrina also washed away a great deal of the natural coastal defenses that were in place. Sand bars and the like that helped resist the rising tides hurricanes bring. The next ones will be worse. There's a good reason he isn't giving them money to rebuild the city though. It isn't that he doesn't like black people. Once the affects of global warming start setting in the southern third of the state will be underwater (based on projections from a professor at UofA). Let it not be said that Bush isn't conservative to the core. Imagine all that money wasted on a city that will drown anyway? Every place that I saw and knew growing up as a child will be washed away.

mnottertail -> RE: "Gulf resident wonder, where is all the money?" (4/24/2007 1:49:34 AM)
where will the new coastline be? Beaudraux? I should buy me some lakeshore to give to my kids..... LeGrandeFrumage

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